Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

From	Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?
Date	2020-07-08 07:20 +0200
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On 7/4/20 15:38, Tom Dial wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my
> wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in
> Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not
> support Enigmail. The new version also appears to have no obvious way to
> import openpgp keys, and it appears the developers do not plan to
> support that, at least for secret and signed public keys, nor any
> intention to adhere to the "Web of Trust" infrastructure. I still have
> TB 68 on the Debian machines, but expect that will go away by Bullseye
> release, since Mozilla's support for it apparently will end late this year.
> 
> I elected to use Thunderbird a number of years ago because it has a
> relatively decent UI, downloads and removes the messages from my ISP's
> servers, and with Enigmail had reasonably good PGP integration. I'm sure
> there are others, but it's 10 - 20 years since I used them (fetchmail +
> mutt, IIRC).
> 
> I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature,
> if known, would be any capability to ingest old messages from Thunderbird.
> 

Thanks to all for the suggestions:

    getmail + mutt: (Dan Ritter)
    claws-mail: (Andrei Popescu)
    sylpheed : (celejar)
    protonmail: (ghe2001)(celejar)
    protonmail + open-source-bridge: (celejar)

I'll be installing and testing them in some order during the coming months.

Regards,
Tom Dial

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Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-07-05 00:10 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2020-07-05 00:50 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-07-05 21:00 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-05 00:50 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2020-07-05 00:50 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-05 12:00 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 14:30 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2020-07-05 00:50 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-07-05 05:30 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 09:00 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 14:20 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-07-08 07:20 +0200

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