Thunderbird up for Adoption

[Borg 386]

Mozilla wants to shed itself of Thunderbird, its popular cross platform email client. Although widely used on GNU/Linux, OS X and on Windows, the organization now seems to pretty much view it as a liability.

According to Mozilla executive chairperson Mitchell Baker in a company-wide memo written Monday and widely published online, the Thunderbird project is now seen as a “tax” by Mozilla because it distracts and takes time away from the organization’s software engineers.

Thunderbird up for Adoption | FOSS Force

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Mozilla is giving up (again) on its Thunderbird e-mail client. And, the Firefox web browser's market share continues downhill.

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[ThrashZone]

Yea many like Firefox and quite frankly I do not see the attraction personally

I barely see Pale moon x64 as viable but I guess anything is better than ie11

Thunderbird well I have never had a use for it office outlook is good enough for the way I use it.

 

[shadow2201]

I solely use Firefox and I've actually started using Thunderbird because I find it fits my needs better than outlook. I hope it continues but we'll see.

 

[OvenMaster]

Same here. I can't imagine using anything other than Firefox or Thunderbird as my daily drivers.
Any time I do use another browser, it just feels so wrong. IE feels ancient and Chrome's GUI is simply unusable.
Thunderbird is the only email client that made sense after I could no longer use Outlook Express.

 

[michael diemer]

I am trying out Chromium, the open-source browser upon which Chrome is based. If you think Chrome is too bloated or hard to use, you will find that Chromium is fast, lean and intuitive. I am loving it so far. And I use T-bird on both Windows and Linux, and like it as well. I also have ProtonMail. a web-based free and hyper-secure email. I may have to give up my desktop email, if T-bird goes the way of the DoDo.

 

[bachware]

I use FF 46 x64 in the Nightly build, and it works fine. I also use Tbird 46 x64 for my E-mail client, and it's fine as well. I'm disappointed that Mozilla is wanting to shed Tbird.

 

[unifex]

I used to use Thunderbird ages ago. But now I'm just using web-based mail services and have no need for an email client. Why store all those messages on my drive? Moreover, never downloading email messages to my PC means a malware infection is less likely.

At the same time I can't see why anyone would use any other browser instead of Firefox.

 

[michael diemer]

At the same time I can't see why anyone would use any other browser instead of Firefox.

Well, here's one: Firefox crashes my computer, shutting it down completely. Not sure why, but I have installed Chromium. So far, no crashes. And I actually like it better. It's fast and lean, and just flat-out works. Installed quickly even on Linux, and imported my Firefox bookmarks instantly. And it's not Google Chrome, so no tracking, as long as I use Duck Duck.

 

[bachware]

Other browsers and T-bird for my own POP server

I have MSIE 11, Opera, and FF on my system, and they're all fine. I have Edge on my laptop along with those, too. Still, I prefer FF. As to using Web-based E-mail and my own server, I want maximum control for myself, and T-bird gives that in spades. It uses FF's Gecko rendering engine, so things seem very interoperable. I like FF's HTML-E-mail capabilities. I don't want to use any other platform from a vendor I don't trust.

 

[Diosoth]

I only use TB to access my ISP email, which I never use because it is spam city but if I don't clean it out then my ISP disables it, and I have 1 or 2 older registrations tied to that address that I can't switch to current emails.

TB is horribly CPU-heavy and a bit slow. I can actually go in and clean out the junk in the inbox with their web access at twice the speed.

 

[fireberd]

I tried Thunderbird but it reminded me of Windows Live Mail, which I hate. I'm still using old Outlook 2003.

 

[4wd]

I use Thunderbird because it reminded me of Windows Live Mail, which I (used to) love.
:O)

Using it for years, configured just how I need it to be, it's behaving perfect.
Let's hope someone gives it a good home (without destroying it!).

 

[maxseven]

I too have been using TB for years and have never found anything to lure me away from it. We have 16 or 17 email addresses, and use almost exclusively POP because I like having control...

 

[Jody Thornton]

I tried Thunderbird but it reminded me of Windows Live Mail, which I hate. I'm still using old Outlook 2003.

I loved Office 2003, but ESPECIALLY Outlook 2003. Do you still have good luck with it? How about compatibility? Have you run into any snags since it went out of support last year?

 

[Jody Thornton]

I liked Thunderbird up until the end of version 2. But version 3 brought indexing and tabs and slowed right down.
If only there was an updated 2.19.x version ... lol

 

[groze]

I use Thunderbird daily. I can't seem to find another free suitable mail client whether using it on windows or Linux. I use IMAP. IMAP keeps emails program updated regardless of which operating system you use. That maybe all besides the point if Microsoft gets rid of their outlook.com IMAP and/or pop servers. That would actually make using Thunderbird or any other mail client useless.

 

[RolandJS]

Recently, my t-bird became problematic, shut down several times daily without any warning. Reloaded and re-acquainted myself with e M Client 6. Unlike t-bird, I have not found a way to make eMC save an eml file as an html. I have to find a pay-for that will simply convert eml into html, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Callender]

I only use TB to access my ISP email, which I never use because it is spam city but if I don't clean it out then my ISP disables it, and I have 1 or 2 older registrations tied to that address that I can't switch to current emails.

TB is horribly CPU-heavy and a bit slow. I can actually go in and clean out the junk in the inbox with their web access at twice the speed.

Maybe you could change a few settings?

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...-links-dont-work-post2854753.html#post2854753

Also right click each folder and choose "Compact" at least once per week.

Other than that try defragging TB's databases.

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[lehnerus2000]

Yet another "brilliant" call by Mozilla.


The TB spam handler has been broken for ~1 year (on my PC).
I can't successfully mark an email as spam, or remove the spam indicator from messages that aren't spam.

IMO, Firefox was the best browser, until Mozilla decided to add the worst features of other browsers.

 

[Callender]

Recently, my t-bird became problematic, shut down several times daily without any warning. Reloaded and re-acquainted myself with e M Client 6. Unlike t-bird, I have not found a way to make eMC save an eml file as an html. I have to find a pay-for that will simply convert eml into html, nothing more, nothing less.

I've had problems with Thunderbird three times in the past few years. A full removal (not just uninstalling via add/ remove programs but a full removal) and clean install fixed it each time.

I read a long time ago that Mozilla wanted to ditch Thunderbird and looked at a few other email clients. Like yourself I've got EMClient installed and I'm happy with it. It can import account settings from Thunderbird.

Before that I was using Pegasus Mail as an alternative to Thunderbird just to try it and I still keep it installed even though I don't use it much. However it is possible to save individual emails to html format using Pegasus Mail.