Thunderbird's Quality

I've bounced between most of the 'big' email clients available for GNU/Linux. I used seamonkey/thunderbird for a number of years on GNOME 2, they were good but even then had odd bugs. After GNOME 3 hit and I had to migrate to XFCE, I also used the time to switch to claws and in fairness, claws was good and worked very well. I do wonder how much it has changed since then, but I do remember it "just works" (or did at that time.).

I also used gnome's evolution for a while (on XFCE), it was actually a really good solution for when you want all the features built in, such as contact sync, calender sync, etc. I continued to use that after claws right up until I switched to KDE around 2022 or so, since I didn't really encounter any significant bugs.

I didn't want the gnome dependencies within my KDE setup so I switched over to Kmail which seemed like the natural replacement. It worked mostly, but it also had peculiar issues where it would lose the synced contacts / events and sometimes even emails themselves if you use filters or move mail between folders (the emails were simply gone, no longer on the server nor stored locally.).

I tried out thunderbird again... and.. I basically noped out of that.

I eventually got fed up of dealing with all the GUI clients and their oddities along with all the other syncing. I decided to try out mutt/neomutt. Granted, it has nowhere near as many fancy features but it does "just work" and as yet it hasn't failed to do anything I told it to do or lost anything.

It just brings peace of mind and a lot less frustration. :-)

Or maybe I'm just getting too old for that software, lol.