Would it be wise to link one's Protonmail account with Thunderbird?
Why would it be "wise"? If you need secure mailbox free of direct surveillance by providers, you need to host it yourself using software you yourself checked and compiled.
What’s New in Thunderbird 78
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#92Many of these UI changes seem like backward steps. https://blog.thunderbird.net/files/2020/07/compose-compariso... Old: Clear that you can enter multiple "To" addresses. Obvious that the formatting buttons are buttons. New: Single-line "to" implies you can only enter one address. "Flat" buttons don't look like buttons. https://blog.thunderbird.net/files/2020/07/account-setup.png Extra white space makes the window nea…
The old To/Cc design was really bad. If you have more than three addresses, then these three lines scroll. The only indication that there are more than three addresses is a tiny scrollbar all the way to the right. I recently sent an e-mail to more people than intended when editing an old message as new, because it had more To-addresses that weren't visible and I didn't notice the scrollbar. I'm very happy that it's b…
Now it needs some visual indication of a complete e-mail address in the To: line. Like a rounded rectangle 1px border around a complete e-mail address and some kind of hint, that you can enter more than one address.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's incredible how shitty ALL email clients for Windows are, except for Thunderbird. Of course, Mozilla had to abandon it...
Great to see a headline like this again. But even if you had frozen Thunderbird how it was, it would still beat other mail solutions. I can live with Outlook/Exchange in my corporate environment, but it still cannot compete.
>But even if you had frozen Thunderbird how it was, it would still beat other mail solutions.
Definitely. And that's sad. I guess everybody uses web mail these days.
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#95To each their own but I find it hard to fathom using a non-cloud based email system. I regularly access my email from 7 computers.
I have native apps for email on the various machines I own (between phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops that's at least 5). And, in a pinch, I can still use webmail. I'm not sure why "cloud" matters for email -- it's always been hosted on a server somewhere.
If you use POP for your mail client, your client downloads the mails from the server that then deletes them and you only have them on your computer (Unless you use Gmail that does some hybrid thing storing the old emails but marks them as read I believe)
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#96Did they changed something on the interface because I used to change the order of the action buttons on the email pane (anwser, archive, spam, delete, etc.) and this can't be done now?
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#97Have they updated the documentation for writing addons? Last time I checked it was a decade or so old.
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#98- google provider plugins are broken
- carddav plugins are broken
- mail client is nicer
I'm tired of this. Either be a PIM suite and don't break functionality, or don't.
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#99Did Thunderbird remove support for older XUL-based add-ons like Firefox did? It’s unclear to me what the article means by “legacy extensions” - based on context it seems simply to refer to extensions that work in 77.
It refers to XUL extensions, they still work but need updates for new releases unlike WebExtensions.
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#100I've started using Thunderbird again after months of trying literally every other solution on the market. I wanted to switch from Outlook and Gmail to something that is fast, has good keyboard support and a good message editor. It's incredible how slow most of the email clients on the market are. What's even more incredible is that, apart from Outlook, none of the other clients offer a good way of editing tables prop…
Gmail has great keyboard support. Just press ? And see for yourself. Used with https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier I find it to be a great client
I like the Gmail keybindings. Only scrolling the message by lines is not available. (Scrolling the message by page is available.) Somehow, I like to scroll by lines...