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@thunderbird i use TB since eternity, but to be fair, i also found 2 outlook apps installed on my windows 11 and they also do not work
@thunderbird "App not authorized" πŸ˜‘
@thunderbird oh noes 2 thunderbird instances running? No problem. RAM is plenty with #thunderbird
@SeanPLynch @thunderbird In space, the only solution I would see fit is mutt. Maybe make a symlink and call it laika
@thunderbird I'd bet mone it's running babyian on PowerPC 64-bit, so it wouldn't even be difficult.
@thunderbird Ah someone finally updated it ?
@thunderbird at least they'd had a todo list app builtin… and some chat to friends (like me) too…
@thunderbird For Exchange server backend you definitely want to use #Evolution πŸ˜‰
@theron29 @thunderbird We support EWS since late last year, so NASA really has no excuses :P
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In all fairness, Thunderbird runs like treacle, even on a modern well specced PC.
@electron_greg @thunderbird I just switched back to Thunderbird after years on webmail and yeah, performance is not what I would call one of its strengths
@thunderbird That's pretty much what I said to myself when I heard the astronaut say that on NASA's live feed. 🀣
@dshan Glad to know we weren't the only ones who thought of the obvious next step! 🀣
@thunderbird Honestly, after being user and supporter, this is the second application I'm planning to remove, after I cleaned my systems from Firefox 148 onward, after being a user for twenty years.
The trigger would be again any unwanted AI intrusion: let's see how it goes.
@luca You can also switch the AI off, of course. Nobody is forcing you to use it.

Let me know what you replace TB with, and if it offers the same quality and features.
@hans Right now, Betterbird.
@luca A very new fork of Thunderbird, so basically you're still using Thunderbird. Only, the makers claim it's better, because it gets updates that Thunderbird doesn't. Not sure what updates those are and why Thunderbird doesn't get those...

What I see is a project by, what they themselves call, a small team, complaining about the large number of open tickets in Thunderbird (which they forked and thus inherited). They don't help users, they only concentrate on fixing bugs they find important.

They can move fast by claiming to have fixed bugs X, Y and Z and pointing out that Thunderbird lags behind, while at the same time complaining how it took TB so long to fix "formal quality assurance", even though they themselves don't have that.

Let's see if it still exists in, say, a year and how their claims of being better than TB hold up against some scrutiny πŸ˜‰
@hans I read between the lines, you hate them to the bones. Good.
I hope that MZLA still exists in one year, since there are a handful of nice projects working on your code base. I can't be sure though, given your CEO declarations. I just hope he doesn't sell the company to Microsoft, that is the last act for everyone, as the history tells.
@luc0x61 Thank you so much for being a user and donor, and hopefully we can reassure you a bit! Any smart features that might go into Thunderbird in the future will be completely opt-in (and will likely be add-ons). We know some users want these features, but others don't, and it's important you get them only after clearly opting in to them. We always want our users to feel in control to make Thunderbird how they want it to be.
@thunderbird Due to very limited Internet resources in running space operations Mutt may be a better solution: http://www.mutt.org/ - Thunderbird install package is also a fat beast.
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