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Funny I should see this today, I spent yesterday afternoon reading articles about Thunderbird and other mail clients and ended up migrating from Thunderbird to

by joonoro 11y ago

Funny I should see this today, I spent yesterday afternoon reading articles about Thunderbird and other mail clients and ended up migrating from Thunderbird to mu4e [0] (purely for reasons of usability). If this is true (and there is some reason to doubt it, as this isn't the first time Thunderbird has been declared "dead"), and considering that Geary is no longer in active development either (maybe the Elementary OS guys picked it up?), Mailpile [1] might have a chance to fill that gap. Other than that, there's always Claws Mail [2]. [0] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html [1] https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/ [2] http://www.claws-mail.org/ http://www.claws-mail.org/

jeffdubin 11y ago
Mailpile looks interesting, but the Mac package is unavailable: "Packages are being reworked". That makes me think twice -- and I'm not even a Mac user. Though I'd rather see a pulled release than a dangerous one, it's been like that for at least a couple of months now.
bad_user 11y ago
Development by Mozilla has been stopped since 2012, which means that Thunderbird has been relying on community support for maintenance and new features, Mozilla still contributing security updates. For details see here: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/ https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stabi... Development has been slow since then, but the project is far from dead. I'm on version 42 beta (latest Firefox is 43 I think) and for example they've just includes the Lighting add-on in the base install. Plus all add-ons that interest me are compatible, like Markdown-here.
edwintorok 11y ago
I've also seen 'notmuch' recommended as email interface for emacs. Did you try it and could you compare it to mu4e?
- joonoro 11y ago
  Did not know notmuch had an emacs interface, so no. I thought notmuch was just a sort of backend like offlineimap.

by joonoro 11y ago

jeffdubin 11y ago

Mailpile looks interesting, but the Mac package is unavailable: "Packages are being reworked". That makes me think twice -- and I'm not even a Mac user. Though I'd rather see a pulled release than a dangerous one, it's been like that for at least a couple of months now.

bad_user 11y ago

Development by Mozilla has been stopped since 2012, which means that Thunderbird has been relying on community support for maintenance and new features, Mozilla still contributing security updates. For details see here: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/ https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stabi... Development has been slow since then, but the project is far from dead. I'm on version 42 beta (latest Firefox is 43 I think) and for example they've just includes the Lighting add-on in the base install. Plus all add-ons that interest me are compatible, like Markdown-here.

edwintorok 11y ago

I've also seen 'notmuch' recommended as email interface for emacs. Did you try it and could you compare it to mu4e?

joonoro 11y ago
Did not know notmuch had an emacs interface, so no. I thought notmuch was just a sort of backend like offlineimap.