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Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

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Re: Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

#23
post #17

I am still waiting for the announced redesign in 2022 [0] :-) [0]: https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-lo...

It's such a shame that what was shipped there was so far off what the designs had suggested might be possible [1]

Two years ago we were told:

> We're going to build it right, and that means rewriting large pieces of our codebase. We'll ship the remaining stuff when they are ready.

I'm not sure how much more of the designs have actually been realised since then?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664515

Re: Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

#24
post #6

> The upcoming email hosting service from Thunderbird will support IMAP, SMTP and JMAP out of the box Is there any email hosting out there with support for JMAP?

I much prefer POP, as I only send and receive emails on my desktop computer and I want to decide when I fetch new emails. Is there any way to make IMAP work more like POP?

Just disable any automatic fetching. IMAP is not pushing mails to you, but the client regularly pulls.

Re: Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

#25
post #17

I am still waiting for the announced redesign in 2022 [0] :-) [0]: https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-lo...

> No menus

> Cryptic icons with no text

> Optimised for looking good on a screenshot and not for actual user interaction

No thanks :)

Re: Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

#26
post #15
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also https://stalw.art/

Stalwart is a mail server program, not a live email server you can pay someone money to use. One can of course use Stalwart to run a hosted email service.

https://stalw.art/managed-email/

> Let us handle the complexities of your email infrastructure with our comprehensive managed email server service.

Re: Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

#27
post #25
post #17

I am still waiting for the announced redesign in 2022 [0] :-) [0]: https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-lo...

> No menus > Cryptic icons with no text > Optimised for looking good on a screenshot and not for actual user interaction No thanks :)

Indeed, and 16:9 monitors are passé already.

Re: Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

#28
I hope we'll see them set up as an Identity Provider for oAUTH/SAML/OpenID/whatever other stupid plethora of single-sign-on protocols there are. It's disappointing to always see Facebook and Google for single-sign-on providers, never a privacy-respecting OSS org.

Re: Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

#30
post #17

I am still waiting for the announced redesign in 2022 [0] :-) [0]: https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-lo...

It's mostly already available, just not the default: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/08/make-thunderbird-yours-...

I followed the steps in that blog post and was able to mostly get there. I have a bit less padding between folders than the mock-up showed (which seems like a theme thing rather than a configuration item), and I don't have profile pictures in the message list.

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