Welcome to the evolution of Supernova!
www.thunderbird.net
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!

Updates in code base, interface, mobile development, plus improvements to the look and feel on Linux. Pretty cool to see!

  • christophski@feddit.ukEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Haven’t used thunderbird in a long time but it looks really nice! Might give it a go again

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      6·
      2 months ago

      What have you been using instead? I’ve been using Thunderbird since I was 13 at least, literally never used a single other desktop mail client since then. So I wonder what other mail clients people use.

      • 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world
        71·
        2 months ago

        I’ve been an Airmail (Mac) user for many years now. But it’s been really buggy lately and there’s no motivation to fix the issues apparently. So I switched to Thunderbird about a month ago after a lot of research. It’s … ok.

        • Search is great.
        • Seeing stats/charts on my last 20 years of emails is super interesting.
        • Composing emails is not great, but I use a markdown plugin that makes it better … but it’s still pretty bad UX.
        • I hate the way it quotes previous emails with “>” for each line instead of an indented block quote. Maybe I’m missing the setting to turn that off.
        • I miss having an avatar/icon for each sender. It let me quickly visually scan my inbox for the person I want to talk to instead of parsing through all the text.
        • The spacing of elements in certain places is weird and inconsistent. In places where it’s too tight it feels cramped and bothers me.
        • You can’t compose a reply inline. You just have to use a floating window on top of the rest of the app.
        • I miss the one-key shortcuts to label and archive emails. This was originally a GMail feature and Airmail also implemented it.
        • Sending an email doesn’t happen in the background. You have to stare at a progress bar modal while it sends, and it seems to take forever. I just want to move on to my next email but I’m stuck waiting.
        • The tabbed interface is really nice. It’s definitely an underrated feature.
        • I wish it had super advanced rules like you get with MailMate. But what it offers is fine for 99% of users.

        Again, I might be missing some settings to correct some of these issues, so take it all with a grain of salt. But these are my takeaways after about a month of usage.

        • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
          62·
          2 months ago

          Search is great?

          One of my biggest issues with Thunderbird is that I can never find emails I want.

          • octochamp@lemmy.ml
            6·
            2 months ago

            Search works really well for me. Definitely reveals a less aesthetic side of Thunderbird but it works!

            A works to archive messages btw, I’m not sure about a shortcut for labels though.

          • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
            5·
            2 months ago

            It has the most powerful search of any email client I’ve used. That was one of the reasons I switched. What issues have you had?

          • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 month ago

            What a weird thing to read. I open my work’s email in thunderbird because the search is so good. Outlook is really slow when searching for something and so so tedious.

          • 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            In all fairness, my usage is still minimal at this point. I’ve only searched a couple of times, but the thing I needed popped right up. Maybe my experience will change over time.

          • seth@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 month ago

            This is ultimately what made me try out Betterbird. It has regex searching which imo every search box of every app should have as a basic feature. Plus it still has all the features Thunderbird has and even some that Thunderbird has removed in recent releases.

        • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          2 months ago

          Apple seems to have a lot more variety in the email client ecosystem than Win or Linux. One of those weird unexpected things.

    • fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 months ago

      I used evolution for a min, it wasnt bad… But, ive been using thunderbird for so long, i didnt stray for long.