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Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

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Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

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Post by thundarr »

fouronnes3 wrote: post #16

I wanted to love Thunderbird, used it for years then a bug [0] literally deleted all my emails. I regularly see updates of people understandably raging on the ticket :( It's a bug that literally deletes user data from both the server and the client without warning. It's been open and confirmed for 17 years straight. It could happen to you. How is it not top 1 priority to fix it? [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_…

Because it has to be reproducible. Help make it reproducible and show that to the developers.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

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Post by nehal3m »

thundarr wrote: post #21
fouronnes3 wrote: post #16

I wanted to love Thunderbird, used it for years then a bug [0] literally deleted all my emails. I regularly see updates of people understandably raging on the ticket :( It's a bug that literally deletes user data from both the server and the client without warning. It's been open and confirmed for 17 years straight. It could happen to you. How is it not top 1 priority to fix it? [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_…

Because it has to be reproducible. Help make it reproducible and show that to the developers.

Hard to do when all your data is chilling in oblivion.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

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Post by CoolChum »

lproven wrote: post #14
CoolChum wrote: post #3

There is no mention of sync functionality. I regularly use 3 different PCs and I cannot sync settings easily. It means I've give up using Thunderbird on all but one of the PCs. They've also made the usability worse in recent versions and are copying the insanely annoying context menus in Windows 11, which cannot be reverted.

I covered that and the alternative in my Register piece. You might find that useful. https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/new_thunderbird_esr_i...

Thank you. I will take a look this evening.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

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Post by Nition »

fouronnes3 wrote: post #16

I wanted to love Thunderbird, used it for years then a bug [0] literally deleted all my emails. I regularly see updates of people understandably raging on the ticket :( It's a bug that literally deletes user data from both the server and the client without warning. It's been open and confirmed for 17 years straight. It could happen to you. How is it not top 1 priority to fix it? [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_…

Thanks for linking that. I've tried Thunderbird a couple of times in the past and quite liked it, but that thread has put me off using it forever.

Even if the bug is fiendishly hard to track down and reproduce, you'd think there would be some additional safety checks they could add that would at least let it fail with an error message instead of actual data loss.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

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Post by Jaxan »

fouronnes3 wrote: post #16

I wanted to love Thunderbird, used it for years then a bug [0] literally deleted all my emails. I regularly see updates of people understandably raging on the ticket :( It's a bug that literally deletes user data from both the server and the client without warning. It's been open and confirmed for 17 years straight. It could happen to you. How is it not top 1 priority to fix it? [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_…

Oof that is bad.

> How is it not top 1 priority to fix it?

Maybe because it is very rare? I have been using thunderbird for 10 years now on various OSes and never had issues.

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