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Why would Thunderbird need to change beyond maintenance in order to be "viable" in the first place? Email hasn't changed. It's still solving the same problem.
by Sniffnoy 9y ago
Why would Thunderbird need to change beyond maintenance in order to be "viable" in the first place? Email hasn't changed. It's still solving the same problem. It should be as good as ever.
- Silhouette 9y agoIndeed. While I'm interested to see where this goes, current Thunderbird already does its job pretty well if you want an offline mail client. Security updates and bug fixes are always welcome of course, but I don't see why it's not a viable mail client.
- jrnichols 9y ago> Email hasn't changed Tell Google that. :/ Most of my email woes doing support over the years have been Gmail related. Google changes something, suddenly happy email clients cease working as users expect.
- digi_owl 9y agoOh so much this. Google is, on a number of topics, dancing very close to the EEE behavior that MS has gotten lambasted for in the past. You could probably plaster the colorful G over top of Vader's helmet in the old scene between him and Lando.
- Sniffnoy 9y agoHell, they basically outright are EEE with regard to how they've treated XMPP. I basically just had to stop using Gchat (or whatever it's called now) because its behavior was just so incompatible with Pidgin.
- bigbugbag 9y agoStill the option for basic security such as protecting the access to your mail with a password. 15 years that this feature has been removed with no explanation and that it's not been put back despite feature requests. This make thunderbird unfit for deployment in places.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoIf someone else already has access to your user account, it is a little bit pointless to have passwords on specific applications. Secure your entire account, instead of individual applications.