I’ve never heard of anyone using Thunderbird, but I hear about other Firefox users all the time.
I want a new email place. FUCK GMAIL 💥 FUCK GOOGLE! I had to use MS Office for work once, it was okay. Better than Gmail by a mile. But you seriously think I’m gonna use Microsoft? Well, what else is there? If Thunderbird is alright I think I should give it a try.
I also need to find a way to make a new not-gmail email domain. No idea where to go for that. Uh, does Thunderbird have anything?
it’s awesome, i’ve been using it for like 20(?) years.
the current beta version is great
I’m using Thunderbird. It’s convenient for having multiple inboxes and has a subjectively nice interface without much bloat on it. It has a calendar app which is good for planning too. For email, I have a custom domain+TLD plus an account at purelymail. If purelymail goes dicks up I’m not dead in the water.
Thunderbird is not a email provider, it’s email client. Gmail is both a email provider and they have a webclient you can (but don’t need to) use. You can use gmail with Thunderbird, I do that.
The question is what are you looking for a new email provider or a new email client?
From their post, I’d assume they’re looking for both.
I use it, and have for decades. It’s wonderful and it just keeps getting better. Buy you own domain name, and a mail-hotel… Then you are good to go.
It’s used in company I work in. It’s pretty solid, given how much data it has to work with, although it’s a bit slow. But that’s probably combination of shitty workstation, huuuuge inbox, shitty local mail provider and pretty slow internet speeds…
It slows down when you have tens of thousands of emails in one folder. Archiving old emails by month helps keep it running smoothly. For some reason, it won’t let you do that with gmail accounts unless you archive to a local folder though.
You don’t want to know how that mail abomination is set up here… Archiving? Blasphemy!
I have a good computer with a mid size inbox (too lazy to delete), fast internet, and like 4 different mail providers.
It’s still slow. I don’t hate it though.
I have it on my desktop, but rarely use email there. My phone uses K9, which is actually now Thunderbird also 🥸
I’ve read about K-9 becoming Thunderbird on smartphones but mine still says K-9.
It’s my daily driver for email, and biggest complaint is I don’t know how to change the date format to not be super confusing. I’ve tried using it for RSS and chats too, but hasn’t really stuck for some reason or other. Great for managing multiple emails, though.
I use Fairmail on my phone.
thunderbird is great. no complaints here. good to have your own offline copy and also to use openpgp implementation.
I use it daily it works fine.
It’s pretty good, but I use SeaMonkey since it feels more lightweight
We are using Thunderbird for AGES. We basically switched over from the original “Mozilla Mail” client that we had used before, and don’t ask what we used before that…
But we always had our own email addresses since the 1990s, and our own domain since the 2000s.
Sad it’s still not available on iOS yet…
I have thunderbird running in a docker container so I can use it from any computer I am on at that moment. It dose what I need.
Thunderbird is very good and new additions are coming on a regular basis now. You can use it with any standard email service, and soon it will work with exchange and hopefully soon JMAP. There is also a mobile version.
If you buy your own domain, you can connect it to an account like Proton or Tuta, making your personal email a little more portable. Last I checked, .nl domains were like $6 or $7 per year on Namecheap. And I’m pretty sure you can link both Proton and Tuta to a Thunderbird client if you really want to. You may need a paid account with the email provider if you want to link a custom domain, I can’t recall offhand.
Proton Mail kind of supports Thunderbird on their paid plans by using the bridge which acts as a local mail server which can then be used in Thunderbird. Tuta does not support Thunderbird at all. Lock-in is the biggest downside of these encrypted email providers.
Ah ok thank you, I have the paid Proton so I had a feeling there were complications outside that space but wasn’t sure
