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Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by Mahn »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #20

I'll have to give it a shot, but the last time I used thunderbird it was unusably slow at pretty much everything. Compacting my folders would help for a day or two, and then it'd basically become unresponsive for 30s or more with any user input. I hope they focus on performance in coming revisions.

I keep using Thunderbird because I haven't found anything better, but it's unbearably slow. I'd gladly jump ship to a better cross platform, featureful, responsive email client, but apparently they don't make these anymore.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by fulafel »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #22
cup-of-tea wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A proper mail client also seems essential for taking part in mailing lists. I used to use gnus but got too frustrated at people sending me email in stupid HTML formats that I couldn't read. Thunderbird is the easiest thing to use that behaves like a proper mail client but also deals with the garbage from bad clients like Outhouse etc.

This may or may not help, but ex. mutt lets you read HTML mail by running it through lynx/elinks/w3m [0], and I've had great success with this in a mostly-Outlook environment. I expect you could do the same thing with other clients. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt#Viewing_HTML

Mutt is terrible for imap on a laptop, it hangs and loses changes when the connection dies. Or has this been fixed?

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by JohnTHaller »

nashashmi wrote: post #9

Nice to see win XP continues to be a supported platform.

Thunderbird uses Firefox ESR as a base. Firefox ESR supports Windows XP while it is at version 52.x. Firefox ESR will move up to 60.x in August 2018 at which point neither Firefox nor Thunderbird will support Windows XP any longer.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by amorroxic »

pjmlp wrote: post #14

Love it, it has been my favourite email client since the Netscape days. Don't forget to donate.

On the same page. Have gone through endless flavors of Linux, Win and OSX by simply copying the emails folder from system to system for close to 20 years now - and never lost one email. To say I appreciate this piece of software would be an understatement.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by cesarb »

lostapathy wrote: post #16
nashashmi wrote: post #9

Nice to see win XP continues to be a supported platform.

Honest question - why? There are kids enlisting in the army now that were born after XP was released.

What matters is not when Windows XP was originally released, but when its official support ended, which according to Wikipedia was on April 2014. Both Firefox and Thunderbird supported Windows XP for a few more years after that (since Windows XP was and is still popular even after its official support ended); version 52 of both (which is an ESR release) is going to be the last one with support for Windows XP.

The operating system support doesn't change within a major release, which is why 52.7 has the same operating system support as 52.0.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by tecleandor »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #12
wslh wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Thunderbird is still the best crossplatform, multi account mail client around. Have you tried Sylpheed? https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

Not the OP but yes, and Clawsmail. Still keep coming back to Thunderbird. There are so many useful add-ons it's hard to leave. And add-ons are easier to write.

What add-ons do you use regularly?

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by classichasclass »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #25
nabeards wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But sad it only goes back to Mac 10.9.

Actually I wonder why. Probably using GTK or something that only supports newer systems, but still too bad.

GTK doesn't have anything to do with that; Thunderbird and Firefox use native widgets to implement XUL on macOS. It's mostly a platform decision based on numbers of users and if there are any technical pain points supporting earlier SDKs.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by seanalltogether »

y0ghur7_xxx wrote: post #2

Thunderbird is still the best crossplatform, multi account mail client around. Everybody migrated to webmail, but for those old grumps of us who still have multiple email accounts, and maybe even follow some newsgroups, tb is still the best player in town. Thanks tb team for your work! I love you all!

I agree, I've been using it for more then 10 years now and migrated between multiple machines and os platforms, all while holding onto several email accounts for historical needs.

That said, I also feel it is one of the worst calendar clients around. I've used lightning, I've tried the calendar plugins for google, things just don't work.

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