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This prompted me to download Thunderbird - was very easy to get started (it basically provided a wizard with some basic inputs and started fetching messages imm

This prompted me to download Thunderbird - was very easy to get started (it basically provided a wizard with some basic inputs and started fetching messages immediately using POP).

moffkalast 4y ago
Thunderbird? Marty, I'll need to fix the time circuits, we've travelled back to 2006! But seriously, what's next? Switching to IE from Chrome? Back to MS Office from Docs? The more things change the more they stay the same...
- noisy_boy 4y ago
  One of those isn't the same as others... IE and MS Office are MS products, Thunderbird is still under the Mozilla umbrella. I guess for certain things we backup to cloud and for others, we backup from cloud :D
- BenjiWiebe 4y ago
  What's wrong with Thunderbird? My workplace uses it, my family's small business uses it, I use it. Has lots of features, doesn't require a fast stable Internet connection, and there's no risk of losing your emails because $provider locked you out. Plus if you have multiple email accounts, it's super convenient to get them all in one place.
  - moffkalast 4y ago
    Idk, Thunderbird, Outlook, and desktop email checkers in general seem absolutely antediluvian to me. Like CRT screens, trackball mice, and space cadet pinball. Do you still have to fetch mail manually like a caveman or did they make it automatic yet? Does your mail sync between all your devices? I still think it's less likely to get banned from gmail than my local hdds to fail.
    - spopejoy 4y ago
      > I still think it's less likely to get banned from gmail than my local hdds to fail Uhh the whole discussion is about exactly this problem which you've decided won't happen to you because ... ? Thunderbird rules and isn't going away, and makes things like blocking remote images easy (as opposed to gmail where you lose basic UX if you turn it off so most people don't). What's more, gmail's basic features have really suffered in the last 10+ years. I search 20 years of email in Thunderbird faster and more efficiently than the bloatware POS gmail is now. But best of all, I don't use gmail! I never have to worry about the nightmare scenarios presented here and nobody spies on my email (other than the NSA :) ) Oh -- physical backups rule too. From rotating through various drives my email is backed up at least 16 times over.
    - ivanyu 4y ago
      I'll be surprised of the features modern mail protocols like IMAP have.
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This prompted me to download Thunderbird - was very easy to get started (it basically provided a wizard with some basic inputs and started fetching messages immediately using POP).

moffkalast 4y ago

Thunderbird? Marty, I'll need to fix the time circuits, we've travelled back to 2006! But seriously, what's next? Switching to IE from Chrome? Back to MS Office from Docs? The more things change the more they stay the same...

noisy_boy 4y ago
One of those isn't the same as others... IE and MS Office are MS products, Thunderbird is still under the Mozilla umbrella. I guess for certain things we backup to cloud and for others, we backup from cloud :D
BenjiWiebe 4y ago
What's wrong with Thunderbird? My workplace uses it, my family's small business uses it, I use it. Has lots of features, doesn't require a fast stable Internet connection, and there's no risk of losing your emails because $provider locked you out. Plus if you have multiple email accounts, it's super convenient to get them all in one place.
- moffkalast 4y ago
  Idk, Thunderbird, Outlook, and desktop email checkers in general seem absolutely antediluvian to me. Like CRT screens, trackball mice, and space cadet pinball. Do you still have to fetch mail manually like a caveman or did they make it automatic yet? Does your mail sync between all your devices? I still think it's less likely to get banned from gmail than my local hdds to fail.
  - spopejoy 4y ago
    > I still think it's less likely to get banned from gmail than my local hdds to fail Uhh the whole discussion is about exactly this problem which you've decided won't happen to you because ... ? Thunderbird rules and isn't going away, and makes things like blocking remote images easy (as opposed to gmail where you lose basic UX if you turn it off so most people don't). What's more, gmail's basic features have really suffered in the last 10+ years. I search 20 years of email in Thunderbird faster and more efficiently than the bloatware POS gmail is now. But best of all, I don't use gmail! I never have to worry about the nightmare scenarios presented here and nobody spies on my email (other than the NSA :) ) Oh -- physical backups rule too. From rotating through various drives my email is backed up at least 16 times over.
  - ivanyu 4y ago
    I'll be surprised of the features modern mail protocols like IMAP have.

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