Great

Posted Jul 24, 2024 21:36 UTC (Wed) by cen (subscriber, #170575)
Parent article: Lessons from the death and rebirth of Thunderbird

I've been a TB user for years and if you need to deal with multiple email providers it's just common sense, Web does not cut it. There are some very old paper cuts that are slowly and finally being resolved, for example, accepting a meeting request no longer replies with default calendar email but asks you which email you want to use. We might need another 5 years to convince the developers that reply should automatically come from the email that was sent an invite but at least we are moving in the right direction.

I'm also eagerly awaiting Sync to be added, that will help from needing to export/import across multiple devices.

And yes, a pleasant nudge to donate actually made me donate.

Keep up the good work.

Evolution works better for me

Posted Jul 24, 2024 22:56 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] (1 responses)

I realize it's not as widely/easily available as Thunderbird, being a Gnome application, but Evolution is (IMO/IME) a better solution in places where it can be used.

YMMV of course: email clients are pretty personal. But I've been using Evolution for something like 18 years, since I was forced away from Emacs VM by a previous employer's switch to Exchange. Since then I've used it with various mail servers including POP from the FSF, my own IMAP server, GMail, and Exchange both via IMAP and using Exchange Webmail (EWS). I use email extensively (I probably get 1000+ messages a day) and Evolution works great for me by combining (currently) 4 major mail accounts into one interface.

Now with a flatpak install which allows the latest version to be used even on fairly old systems (I use it on my work system which is required, for now, to stay with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) it really works well.

I'm not trying to set up a competition or cast shade, just pointing out there are alternatives worth investigating (for some set of users).

I thought Evolution was dead

Posted Jul 24, 2024 23:55 UTC (Wed) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]

I thought Evolution was dead.

No, seriously. I hadn't used it for so long. I just started it up and wow it has... evolved. I definitely need to take a new look at it. Thanks.