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I'm pretty happy with the web clients but just downloaded this to give it a shot. I was surprised to see that in the initial account onboarding they ask for a p
by Yhippa 3y ago
I'm pretty happy with the web clients but just downloaded this to give it a shot. I was surprised to see that in the initial account onboarding they ask for a password. Then once I entered that information it let me log into my provider by a wrapped page (not the system browser) which looked a bit out of date to me.
This never used to bother me back in the day. When I used these tools, I'd happily give my credentials up but I'm very suspicious of this way of registering my account. I suppose it's open source but the juice isn't worth the squeeze compared to the web clients.
The main thing that makes the web clients work for me is search against decades of emails.
- lucb1e 3y agoThe latter works fine (and offline) for me in Thunderbird. Just tried with a folder that has 7500 messages (2013 till today) and listening to the clock ticking in the background: completes in exactly one second, as near as I can tell. Searching all folders at once (four big folders are 32k emails together, I don't know the total) takes ~0.3 seconds to come up with "no results", 1 second to find the only result ("umpteen" was my first guess at which query might yield a single hit :D), or 2 seconds on a generic query to find 713 results (and populate a list of 384 involved senders sorted by frequency, a timeline of volume by year, which folders those results can be found in, which mailing list it was sent to if any, etc.). This is on a then-mid-range laptop from 2018.
- ranger207 3y agoThat sounds like an OAuth authentication flow? Not a lot Thunderbird can do about that unfortunately