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I never left Thunderbird. I never really got in what way gmail on browser was better.
by Lucadg 7y ago
I never left Thunderbird.
I never really got in what way gmail on browser was better.
- Groxx 7y agoThey popularized tags instead of folders. Tags I get - I can toss emails into "todo" + "personal" + etc and remove it from other views, without deleting it, and without using up more space. Many local apps still struggle to support this smoothly, though it's gradually improving. Same goes for server-side support, e.g. on Fastmail a duplicate in another folder costs duplicated storage. Other than that, dunno. Desktop email clients have basically always been faster to use IMO, and setup has been borderline trivial ever since imap/smtp discovery strategies became common.
- secfirstmd 7y agoAlso Thunderbird and Enigmail/PGP etc had been fairly solid for a long time.
- Lucadg 7y agoMoving a message in a folder in Thunderbird makes a duplicate?
- gattilorenz 7y agoNo, but you're moving it. Can you have the same message in three folders?
- Lucadg 7y agoOk I see what you mean, thanks
- Groxx 7y agoMost Thunderbird / desktop tag implementations are done by just copying the message to multiple folders (which achieves nearly identical behavior, which is great. It's just not usually optimized UX). And most servers don't deduplicate messages globally (I'm not sure why, tbh. probably there's some rational-but-depressing reason).
- tinus_hn 7y ago> Many local apps still struggle to support this smoothly Makes sense as the protocol they use to talk to the server doesn’t support tags.
- koonsolo 7y agoI can read email at home, at work, on my phone, on my tablet, on any other device that I can access. My hard disk crashes? No problem, everything is in the "cloud". My computer crashes? I buy a new one and am up and running in no time without installing too much.