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[–] seacocker@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used Thunderbird about 10 years ago? Looks amazing compared to what I remember.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looked almost the same as the last time tou used it just before this version. Which means this is an absolutely huge step forward for the UI

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[–] birdcat@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

~~I used Thubderbird about 10 minutes ago and this indeed looks amazing compared to what I remember~~.

Edit; how to downgrade to the version? why still no conversation view? 😭

Great. Downgrading deleted my profile. Thanks a lot for the constant "innovation",gonna take me hours to set thst shit up again.

Edit 2; no matter how frustrated you are with thunderbird, DO NOT INSTALL OUTLOOK

[–] Leafimo@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

just copy over your profile backup that you certainly created beforehand

[–] Exec@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

If you downgrade, expect glitches with your too new profile. Obviously it's not going to be backwards-compatible.

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[–] e8d79@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't like the new logo; it looks mean. The previous logo showed a charming bird that delivered my mail, the new one portrays a bird of prey clutching a letter, it will probably bite you if you try to retrieve the letter.

[–] Sudo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] deadcream@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now it looks like it's hiding something.

[–] Sudo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Marking valid emails as junk πŸ‘€

[–] loggy@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Looking sus

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

He's protecting your mail for you, I like him

[–] generalEdo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I may try Thunderbird again. Only thing I do not like about the screenshots is the far left toolbar, but I will still check it out.

[–] Unsaved5831@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I just tried it out. Good that it allows you to collapse it.

[–] Leviathan@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Outlook is trying to force that on users as well...it's really a waste of screen real estate for those of us who never use that toolbar.

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[–] sibloure@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Thankfully you can hide it. The new UI is pretty customizable.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They finally updated the calendar so it doesn't look like it's out of windows 95? Thank god. I really wanna use it now but I'm too tied down to Outlook now. I guess I'll try to migrate.

If it had a mobile app it would make it much easier. The Outlook mobile app is really good.

[–] jalda@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have renamed the K9 app to Thunderbird Mobile

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe they've inherited the K-9 Mail app project but haven't yet renamed it. At least it's still showing up as K-9 Mail for me on an Android device.

[–] GeekSquad1992@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Coming Soon^TM^

But yeah, they're plugging away at it yet. Basically, K-9 sat in maintenance mode for a good while, and while it worked, there's a lot of tidying up to do yet. I imagine they'll have the Thunderbird name on it once it has some of the bigger pieces in place.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks nice. I'm not an email power user but I still use Thunderbird just to handle multiple accounts. I'm grateful to this software for simplifying my life a bit.

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[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The new website is also pretty epic: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Unfortunately the flathub version doesn't seem to be updated.

[–] mercan@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the downloads section is not looking good (on Safari at least)

[–] crystal@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It works on Chromium browsers. It does not work on Firefox.

Interesting to see even Mozilla apparently testing their websites only on Chromium.

[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works on Firefox mobile

[–] crystal@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Works for me too now. Seems like they fixed it.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks very gnome. Sadly I use KDE so it still looks like a foreign object, just like Firefox. I want native app to look like native apps, is that too much too ask?

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

is that too much to ask?

Let's say it's a lot to ask, especially when the app also needs to be crossplatform and behave functionally the same on all platforms.

Maybe it could be done, in theory, with a lot of work, but it's definitely not at all an easy task, especially for a project that seemed dead and buried just a few years ago and with just a handful of volunteer devs.

Most crossplatform apps that I can think of don't really look like native apps in any system. I'm thinking of Chromium, VSCode, Discord, Steam etc.

The only one I can think of right now is Whatsapp, but I'm pretty sure they actually developed three independent apps and maintain all three, for Android, iOS and Windows. They all look and feel like native apps because they are. Please tell me if I'm wrong.

Still, you can't expect all, or even most developers to do something like that, especially when you start including all the different DEs and themes and so on.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I tried using Thunderbird like a decade ago. Wasnt a fan. May give it another try!

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[–] abeltramo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just installed, it looks much better compared to 102 without removing any functionality. I love it!

[–] Takato83@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Hopefully after this they focus on the IOS app! Would love to consolidate so many different chat, email, and rss readers into one app!

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why the hell can't I get that side by side view?

[–] Nhof@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes thank you! My god that was driving me crazy

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Can it connect to Exchange without a paid plugin?

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[–] flauschke@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I hope they fixed the performance as well. I have several crashes per day on debian with version 102.11.0

When starting it I have to wait for a bit before I click anything, otherwise it crashes. It also 100%s one CPU core regularly, I don't know if that is supposed to happen. It also sometimes does not show the content of certain emails. All that said it's still the best mail client I've used so far.

[–] forvirretfugl@feddit.dk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone know when/if this will be pushed to flathub?

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[–] chrisbit@cocte.au 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking forward to trying it. It has been over a decade since I last used it.

Anyone know if Google Tasks can be integrated?

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[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Nice looking icon for sure. Fancy

[–] syl@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there now conversation view without having to use an extension?

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would need JMAP support before I would consider a native email client again.

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[–] MonorailPanda@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I might try it as it's looking a lot better. I really hoped they would have implemented https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847989 by now as it's the reason I use Geary currently.

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