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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Works for me: I manage email with Proton on my phone and on the web on my computer anyway.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Thunderbird is acquiring Exchange features.

They haven’t turned them on just yet owing to a little last-minute work, but your ability to sync calendars and address books with an ActiveSync/Exchange-compatible eMail server is coming soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Does that mean the only official email app will be the one that uploads the passwords to all your email accounts to Microsoft?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does it matter if everyone stays on windows 10?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you cannot stay on win10 forever though. deadline is approaching

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The majority of regular folks will only ever upgrade when they get a new computer. Most Me Maw's and Pa Paw's would sooner let their computers catch fire from being loaded with cat than get a new one. Hell. They are all still using ball mice.

As for me, as long as I have an iso I'll happily run it in a vm. Indefinitely.

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

Ball mice is better than laser mice since you can take out the ball and play with it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Can't argue with that. The ones with the big ball on the top are especially good because you can use an 8 ball

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Willy Wonka, I invoke thee... please come express my feelings on this for me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Good riddance.

I absolutely dislike Outlook desktop, don't trust it either. Used Thunderbird back in the day, but switched to emailing on tablets or phone + TrueNas for desktop files.

FairEmail Pro on tablet is all I need for email. It is open source and imo simplest to use. It's free and the pro version set me back 7€ or so.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

If anyone's in this thread because they're looking for a new mail client after Microsoft killed the old Mail app, and haven't been happy with the typical suggestions of using each email service's web interface or Thunderbird, I found I don't hate Mailspring (with the fancy features disabled - I just want my email client to do email well and don't want extras that provide clutter).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The new outlook is utter garbage. It was in fact so bad that I uninstalled it and now use it through the web front-end only. And I'm doing that in Edge - as the only website this browser is allowed to open (asides from Teams, where the software is just as terrible).

If they call it a success that no more people are complaining because they just gave up, then, congrats... I guess?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh. This sounds like a good idea lol is the search a lot faster?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Not amazingly fast, but still quite a bit better indeed. Give it a try, to don't need to uninstall outlook to do that after all.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The good part: two garbage apps will be gone from windows 😂

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Replaced with one god awful one. I actually liked the calendar application, does all I need it to do. But no, I can't have just a calendar application anymore according to Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Mozilla used to have Sunbird, until they also rolled it into Thunderbird. Standalone calendars aren't popular anymore, but in sure there's some around.

I understand the mail integration, as appointments can be processed directly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

oh no, please let me use those shitty apps that you keep pestering me to use and i say fuck off every time, please!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

[meme] Oh no! Anyway... [/meme]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I actually like that app. But can't use it reliable now since they gave it up. Welcome EMClient and Thunderbird.

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