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New major Thunderbird release 128 (www.thunderbird.net)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Updates in code base, interface, mobile development, plus improvements to the look and feel on Linux. Pretty cool to see!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nice and all, but

  • the sidebar is still just a permanent placeholder to create tabs, this makes no sense. It needs to replace tabs entirely or I need to hide it as it is useless
  • the filter function still doesnt allow nested filters (like "IF the message is older than x days AND contains y OR z THEN")
  • Thunderbird conversations and DKIM Verifier got ported luckily, but these should simply be integrated.
  • same with small ones like "filter button", filters are unreasonably hard to get
  • the global search opens tabs and the UI is horrible. It should stay in the same window, or it is useless for me. I use the inferior filter search, which works but pinning the filterbar wastes space

Though...

I really like Thunderbird and also K-9 mail (even though FairEMail is a beast regarding features) and can use it without big issues every day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's going to sound trivial, but I just don't like the icons in FairEmail. I was a little worried when Thunderbird took over k9, but they have done a good job with NOT going fast or breaking things.

Thunderbird team seems to have a vision of what an email client can be, but also great respect for how important email is to people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fair-Email gives me anxiety. Literally the only app where I needed to change like 10 settings because the defaults felt wrong, and there are too many!

The interface is too small too, barely clickable.

K9-Mail to this day doesnt display notifications for me, which is really bad. Even with manual periodic check enabled.

And there are a ton of more features in Fairemail that are super cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

K9-Mail to this day doesnt display notifications for me

Try to disable battery optimisation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Did that. The issue is "push folders" but still it doesnt reliably run in the background