As for Exchange OAuth, yeah, I can see you having some troubles with it in Thunderbird. I personally have never tried Evolution or davmail, so I can't speak to them, unfortunately. I've had to repair people's email enough that I never want to do it again. There are only two things I really have to worry about with thunderbird (they relate to the calendar and mass moving large amounts of emails), but with Outlook. well, it makes me want to make everyone use Thunderbird. Part of my job is to manage workplace computers (probably no where near as many as some folk here on this site, but not a really small amount either), the amount of trouble Thunderbird gives me compared to the amount of trouble Outlook gives me. On top of these things, in my opinion, Thunderbird is really good and not causing issues down the line. All of these things add up, and Thunderbird becomes a much more efficient email client than Outlook for me, which is important if I need to deal with 100 or so emails a day. It also allows much more manipulation of the UI than Outlook does as far as I'm aware. ![]() It's add-on system is easier to use then Outlook's (partly because most everything is free). It's tagging system and archiving system are better than Outlook's. But if you don't need all the bells and whistles, Thunderbird, in my opinion, is oftentimes better than Outlook.įor example, I find that Thunderbird has a better search than Outlook, and better conversation capabilities (threading and open message in conversation) than Outlook. You can try and use webmail of various types - and there are some decent webmail clients out there - but it's just not quite the same as using a good Desktop client.įor the newest Outlook versus the newest Thunderbird, Outlook wins feature wise - it does a lot of things and all of it is pretty well integrated. let me try and answer this, as someone who likes Thunderbird quite a bit (and is cool with people not liking it, but just wants to provide their own perspective).įor traditional business email, you are pretty much stuck with two options - Outlook or Thunderbird. There are plenty of good TUIs that can handle text-only e-mails, so claws isn't really something I currently have a use for. The only thing it lacks for me is an html e-mail editor, which is necessary for responding and quoting to non text-only e-mails. Maybe I'm just old, but Claws is way more usable than me than Thunderbird. > Claws is even more 90s than Thunderbird I have no problem with TUIs, I use a TUI along side a gui mail client, but the latter is necessary when dealing with non text-only messages (particularly responding to). I hadn't heard of mailspring previously, but I suspect we have similar views of what at typical electron-based app is like. I'm not a UI expert, so I can't put my finger on what the difference is. Once it's installed though, it's a joy to use, while Thunderbird feels like a drag. It "just works" on recent NixOS versions though. I don't like this about Evolution either I haven't run a GNOME desktop for at least a decade, and (depending on the distro) it can be a tiny bit fiddly getting Evolution working without a GNOME desktop. Indeed, my reaction to Geary was "wow, they managed to make KMail look good!" > Geary is too buggy/lacks e-mail refresh, KMail is also too buggy although I haven't tried it in a few years The UI looked shiny, I never got upset about it (UI or functionality), but I happily went back to Thunderbird when I got back to Linux. I used Apple's Mail.app when I using a Mac, because I needed to access an Exchange mailbox at the time, which sucks on Thunderbird. I'm sure there are prettier mail clients around, and by all means, if you prefer one of those, use it. Not everyone is using GMail, and my idea of what does or does not count as Spam might differ significantly from what some email provider thinks. > is not needed anymore since GMail and its modern competition. One has to ask for it specifically in the Sorting menu, which admittedly is annoying and should be the default. Thunderbird can group messages by conversation. ![]() > does not group messages by conversation A lot of attempts to "improve" UIs end with things like Microsoft's Ribbon interface (which I really dislike). It doesn't get in the way, and more importantly, I have used it for a long time, so I know my way around it quite well.
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