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A very interesting video about the Thunderbird Project successful donation process and how KDE can improve them by following their step.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hopefully they'll build in support for disroot, fastmail, posteo, protonmail, tutanota, and other opensource encrypted mail agends that don't provide a bridge.

Edit: so the summary of the video is "marketing". Linux, KDE, and opensource projects in general need way better marketing. If Linux could rebrand itself as anything but "the geek thing", I bet it would be much more successful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Now they should create a decent and light carddav and caldav server because what exists today is a mess. Not all features are supported, notifications for invites and whatnot aren't even good or present in most cases and things break. Radicale is python thus not reliable, buggy and not functional for a large scale deployment (> 50 users) and Baikal lacks features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's my daily driver. It has incredible compatibility and very nice features, for example the rule based filter actions, header matching, which immensely boosts my workflow efficiency. Not to mention the calendars and tasks integration and the great extensibility via the plugin system.

Thunderbird is a great example of community driven awesomeness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The best email client ♥️

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i love it but it's not very stable, crashes pretty often

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Have never had this happen on my 4 computers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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