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Haven't used thunderbird in a long time but it looks really nice! Might give it a go again
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.
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.
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.
Apple seems to have a lot more variety in the email client ecosystem than Win or Linux. One of those weird unexpected things.
Search is great?
One of my biggest issues with Thunderbird is that I can never find emails I want.
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.
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.
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?
Search works really well for me. Definitely reveals a less aesthetic side of Thunderbird but it works!
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works to archive messages btw, I'm not sure about a shortcut for labels though.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.