I’ll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
  • Kodachrome@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The Thunderbird desktop mail client is far better (feature-rich, stable, interoperable) than any webmail or phone app mail client I’ve ever seen.

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      1 year ago

      Microsoft Outlook, from what I’ve seen of it, is horrible compared to Thunderbird. Why anyone would use the former is beyond me. You can’t even easily see message headers, so how the hell are you supposed to know whether a message is legit?

      • Kissaki@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Outlook

        • hides email address => security issue; eases phishing (even beyond not showing whether it’s ensured valid)
        • can’t have an inbox filter that moves emails and gives you a normal notification of unread email
        • can’t have an inbox filter that is both server side and gives a desktop notification
        • can’t save your reply email next to the replied to email in the inbox - but can in the folders
        • can’t handle specific column orders (was it category before date then not working? sth like that)

        I switched / had to switch at work. It works. I got used to it for the most part. But I’d much prefer using Thunderbird.

        Because I’m using both now in both I never intuitively navigate to the delete button. Because the layout is different between the two.

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      Is it possible to set custom key-bindings yet? I loved Thunderbird ten years ago, and kept using it until the (kinda-janky, community-maintained) keyboard-binding extension broke. I have too many years of muscle-memory invested in my email flow to change that, but otherwise I’d love to come back to Thunderbird.

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      1 year ago

      Just wish it had native exchange activesync support, since we’re forced to use exchange accounts at work, and Microsoft no longer allows using M365 accounts directly via IMAP (you need to register applications in Azure that can instead use IMAP)

      Stuck using BlueMail instead since it’s the only desktop client that mostly supports EAS. Aside from MailSpring but it had no calendar support despite being promised for years.

      Can’t use Outlook since I’m on Linux and running a VM for it is a bit heavy. And I can’t stand outlook web.

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          1 year ago

          That’s quite roundabout. My question is whether or not I’d have the same feature set as I currently do with BlueMail. I’ll do a bit more research, thank you!