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> Same applies to Mozilla. Not Thunderbird. It is just a poor abandoned child. Mozilla, maybe.
by j16sdiz 7mo ago
> Same applies to Mozilla.
Not Thunderbird. It is just a poor abandoned child.
Mozilla, maybe.
- fluoridation 7mo agoWhat ongoing work does an email client need, though, besides fixing bugs and very occasionally adding new login protocols?
- AlienRobot 7mo agoTheir RSS could use some improvements, but the same could be said about all of them.
- asdewqqwer 7mo agoIf you ever try to write a email client, you will immediately realize how difficult, if not impossible, to fix all the bugs for a email client. It is a multi-different-protocol-version-async-client-handling-same-database-with-thousands-of-race-condition backwards compatibility nightmare. Writing a email client with support of just up-to-date protocols and assume it is the single client that will operate that account is trivial, write one that covers all corner cases is a totally different story.
- fluoridation 7mo agoI don't know about the rest, but surely the race conditions are the fault of whoever designed the concurrency part. An email client does not inherently have race conditions.
- asdewqqwer 7mo ago> assume it is the single client that will operate that account You are still making wild assumption without actually thinking about what means to writing an email client.
- fluoridation 7mo agoOK? Sure would be nice to hear why having a second email client talk to the remote server introduces race conditions on the local client (EDIT: that is, race conditions that are the local client's responsibility).
- ForHackernews 7mo agoAdding a mobile version, MS Exchange integration, supporting OAuth2 login, refreshing the UI periodically because otherwise everyone whines about how "dated" it looks.