I have been a Thunderbird user since very shortly after its birth. I don't claim to have been there on the first day, but it wasn't long after that. (crazy to t

I have been a Thunderbird user since very shortly after its birth. I don't claim to have been there on the first day, but it wasn't long after that. (crazy to think it has been this long - our perception of time is weird). The stand-out feature in its early days was the built-in junk mail filter that worked pretty well, and not being Outlook helped a lot. In later years, the lack of support for MS Exchange was a drawback. I was a macOS user for a few years, and I needed to access Exchange for work email. MacOS allowed me to access both email and calendar when Thunderbird did not. There was a plugin, but it cost money[1]. Evolution did support Exchange well enough, but it was not as pleasant to use as either Thunderbird or Mail.app. When I went back to GNU/Linux in 2017, I tried Mailspring for a while, which I liked for its similarity to Apple's Mail.app - but something or other didn't work the way I liked it, so I returned to Thunderbird. I am glad it is still here, after all those years. I no longer need Exchange support, and with that nuisance gone, Thunderbird is still my favorite email client. There might be better ones, but it feels like switching my hairdresser or dentist. I feel at home with it, it works well for my needs. So, Thank you to everyone who has made it real. [1] - that is okay, but I was/am on a tight budget