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This is good news to hear. I use Thunderbird daily and it's not a pleasant experience.

davehtaylor 9y ago
It really needs to have the ability to add arbitrary numbers of physical addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers to a contact in the address book, as well as give each field an arbitrary name. Every other address book on the planet allows this. The fact that it can't makes it unusable for me. It would also be nice to have a proper three vertical pane view. The way it currently works is horrendous.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  >a proper three vertical pane view // What's wrong with View > Layout > Vertical view? Not my preference, just curious what's different as superficially it looks like other such programs.
smolsky 9y ago
I've been using Thunderbird for the last 11 years daily at home and at work. Generally, it has been a remarkably stable and pleasant ride. I remember a few bumps around 08..2010 where I ran beta builds because of some bugs. Also, I used to have extensions that colorized patches and highlighted quotes/threads... but those eventually broke and disappeared. So, right now I am running a stock Thunderbird with a few profile customizations that tweak fonts (colors and sizes). Hitting GMail (work) and Fastmail (home) servers every minute or so. Go Thunderbird!
pmontra 9y ago
What makes your experience unpleasant? My pain point is that dragging attachments to folders doesn't work in Linux. It's been an open bug since 2007 and I've lost hope on that. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/95507 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbir... Everything else works as it should. I'm not using calendars or syncing address books which probably places me in the long tail of the user distribution.
- ronnier 9y ago
  It breaks the model that nearly every other email client uses where you can enter email1@example.com, email2@example.com, ... and instead it provides an input box, one per line, per email address. When you have a large to list, this gets painful.
  - pbhjpbhj 9y ago
    Works for me, it doesn't then separate the emails graphically before sending but it does send them to the multiple addresses (the sent, and received messages can be opened as "Edit as new" and the addresses appear on separate lines).

It really needs to have the ability to add arbitrary numbers of physical addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers to a contact in the address book, as well as give each field an arbitrary name. Every other address book on the planet allows this. The fact that it can't makes it unusable for me. It would also be nice to have a proper three vertical pane view. The way it currently works is horrendous.

pbhjpbhj 9y ago
>a proper three vertical pane view // What's wrong with View > Layout > Vertical view? Not my preference, just curious what's different as superficially it looks like other such programs.

smolsky 9y ago

I've been using Thunderbird for the last 11 years daily at home and at work. Generally, it has been a remarkably stable and pleasant ride. I remember a few bumps around 08..2010 where I ran beta builds because of some bugs. Also, I used to have extensions that colorized patches and highlighted quotes/threads... but those eventually broke and disappeared. So, right now I am running a stock Thunderbird with a few profile customizations that tweak fonts (colors and sizes). Hitting GMail (work) and Fastmail (home) servers every minute or so. Go Thunderbird!

pmontra 9y ago

What makes your experience unpleasant? My pain point is that dragging attachments to folders doesn't work in Linux. It's been an open bug since 2007 and I've lost hope on that. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/95507 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbir... Everything else works as it should. I'm not using calendars or syncing address books which probably places me in the long tail of the user distribution.

ronnier 9y ago
It breaks the model that nearly every other email client uses where you can enter email1@example.com, email2@example.com, ... and instead it provides an input box, one per line, per email address. When you have a large to list, this gets painful.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  Works for me, it doesn't then separate the emails graphically before sending but it does send them to the multiple addresses (the sent, and received messages can be opened as "Edit as new" and the addresses appear on separate lines).