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I use Thunderbird daily, to manage multiple email accounts, and I love it very much. I wouldn't, though, call its search functionality "good". For simple querie
by tonyarkles 7y ago
I use Thunderbird daily, to manage multiple email accounts, and I love it very much. I wouldn't, though, call its search functionality "good". For simple queries it works so-so, but for anything complex I end up logging into the Gmail or O365 web apps.
This is pretty much my only gripe with it. And for daily use, I dramatically prefer it over webmail.
One other thing that makes me chuckle more than anything... the scam email detection heuristics count cross-domain images to be indicators of scams/phishing. I have two clients who have signature images linked from a different domain, and every message has a red header that warns "THIS MESSAGE MAY BE A SCAM". More than you know, Thunderbird. More than you know.
- tbrock 7y agoI love open source as much as the next person but thunderbird is bad, not evolution bad, but bad. If you have hundreds of thousands of email messages from a decade of email it just breaks. I’m +1 on superhuman but I miss sparrow.
- 1_player 7y agoDo you have an invite for Superhuman?
- tonyarkles 7y agoYeah, definitely miss Sparrow. I'm actually pretty amazed at how well Thunderbird seems to handle my 5 email accounts with messages going back to 2004. Unless I have to search...
- beagle3 7y agoMy 12 accounts are spread over a handful of providers, with emails going back to 2006 in some; While I agree thunderbird's search is inferior to gmail's, its global indexer is decent in capabilities and horrible in ux, whereas the "standard" search is horrible in capabilities and speed, but decent in ux. I use the "expression search" addon, which is perfect as long as you only need to search on metadata; and the global indexer when I do. It's not perfect, but it doesn't make me want to quit in anger, and not even to surrender my privacy to google.