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Re: thunderbird

From Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: thunderbird
Date 2021-05-31 01:20 +0200
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On 30.05.21 20:29, fxkl47BF wrote:
> for a few decades i have used pine/alpine.
> i'm considering a new mail application.
> there are more out there than you can shake a stick at.
> what are your thoughts of thunderbird.
> 

I am using Thunderbird without problems for years now. I have never had 
it crashing.
Actually I came back to Thunderbird some 3 or 4 years ago (not perfectly 
sure, it was too long ago) after a short romance with KMail, which 
crashed frequently and even let all the system become so slow that it 
was unusable. I don't know about KMail's stability of today. Well the 
design of the GUI of KMail was quite nice that time, this is what made 
me testing it. I would test it again if more frequently confirmation 
about the current stability of KMail would be mentioned somewhere.

So, no problems with the stability of Thunderbird for me.
With some efforts it can be configured to nicely support my workflow, 
opening right away with opened tabs for EMail, Calendar and Task List, 
and showing upcoming events also as a side note on the main EMail tab.

One of its weak points is the missing integration into the System Task 
bar of KDE Plasma - until you have been able to find, install and 
configure the extra tool from a third party needed for it.
Another weak point is its missing integration with GnuPG - in this 
context I just placed a question about it here on the list: Thunderbird 
comes with its own PGP implementation and key administration, and for 
any usage of PGP outside of Thunderbird a parallel administration 
infrastructure has to be maintained.

I did never use Thunderbird to connect to a MS Exchange server and 
therefore cannot state about this. I used it in the far past for 
standard POP, and am using it nowadays for standard IMAP accounts. I 
used it with its option for keeping all messages in one file, and with 
the other option to keep each message in an individual file. Both never 
made me any problems, although converting from the the one format to the 
other is not offered by Thunderbird and only due to using IMAP accounts 
I was able to manage this (downloading all messages again from the IMAP 
server). The decision on how to store the messages has to be done before 
the creation of an email account in Thunderbird.

In summary, although the configuration of advanced options and 
appearance needs quite some effort, Thunderbird afterwards works like a 
charm.

Good Luck!
Marco.

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thunderbird fxkl47BF <fxkl47BF@protonmail.com> - 2021-05-30 20:30 +0200
  Re: thunderbird Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-05-30 22:00 +0200
  Re: thunderbird Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-05-30 21:50 +0200
    Re: thunderbird Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-05-30 23:20 +0200
      Re: thunderbird James Wallen <jpwallen@comcast.net> - 2021-05-30 23:50 +0200
    Re: thunderbird James Wallen <jpwallen@comcast.net> - 2021-05-30 23:00 +0200
      Re: thunderbird rust <rustbuckett@pm.me> - 2021-05-31 02:30 +0200
        Re: thunderbird James Wallen <jpwallen@comcast.net> - 2021-05-31 03:00 +0200
          Re: thunderbird The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-31 12:00 +0200
            Re: thunderbird rust <rustbuckett@pm.me> - 2021-05-31 14:10 +0200
              Re: thunderbird didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-05-31 15:10 +0200
                Re: thunderbird Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-05-31 15:20 +0200
                Re: thunderbird rust <rustbuckett@pm.me> - 2021-06-02 00:50 +0200
                Re: thunderbird The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-31 15:30 +0200
            Re: thunderbird James Wallen <jpwallen@comcast.net> - 2021-05-31 17:30 +0200
          Re: thunderbird rust <rustbuckett@pm.me> - 2021-05-31 14:00 +0200
    Re: thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-30 23:00 +0200
  Re: thunderbird Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-05-30 22:10 +0200
    Re: thunderbird Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-05-30 22:50 +0200
      Re: thunderbird Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-05-30 23:00 +0200
        Re: thunderbird Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2021-05-31 01:00 +0200
      Re: thunderbird Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2021-05-31 01:20 +0200
  Re: thunderbird Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-05-30 22:30 +0200
    Re: thunderbird ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2021-05-30 23:00 +0200
      Re: thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-31 08:50 +0200
        Re: thunderbird Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-05-31 10:40 +0200
          Re: thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-31 11:20 +0200
            Re: thunderbird Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-31 16:10 +0200
              Re: thunderbird Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-05-31 17:40 +0200
                Matrix (was Re: thunderbird) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-31 18:00 +0200
                Re: thunderbird <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-31 18:00 +0200
                Re: thunderbird Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-31 19:00 +0200
                Re: thunderbird Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-01 09:50 +0200
        Re: thunderbird rust <rustbuckett@pm.me> - 2021-05-31 14:10 +0200
        Re: thunderbird Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-01 10:20 +0200
          Re: thunderbird Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-06-01 10:30 +0200
    Re: thunderbird Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-05-30 23:10 +0200
    Re: thunderbird Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-05-30 23:30 +0200
  Re: thunderbird Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-05-31 01:20 +0200
    Re: thunderbird Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-05-31 10:00 +0200
  Re: thunderbird rust <rustbuckett@pm.me> - 2021-05-31 02:30 +0200
  Re: thunderbird Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-05-31 03:10 +0200

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