Thunderbird 91 Released With Big Improvements For This Open-Source Mail Client

[billyswong]

It's not about 90s vs trashy trend. It's wanting to see a preview line of all my emails in the message list, something every modern client except Thunderbird can manage.

Also, why does Thunderbird insist on telling me that an email was sent at hhmmss for 6 month/year old emails?

Hmmm.... no preview line in message list means a message is truly NOT loaded before user click on it, so in security sense it is harder for viral mail to exploit the mail client.

And... why the hate of showing you a complete timestamp for an old mail?

[Nth_man]

I guess we could add Windows to that list:

Done in a previous post :

Microsoft Windows 3.1 -> 95 -> [...] -> 8 -> 10

[Vistaus]

The most bizarre version jumps in history:

- Microsoft Word 2.0 -> 6.0
- Slackware 4 -> 7
- openSUSE Leap 13 -> 42 -> 15
- Thunderbird 78 -> 91

I guess we could add Windows to that list:
- Windows 3.1 --> Windows 95 --> Windows 98 --> Windows 2000 --> Windows ME (since ME=1000), then later on Windows 7

And Deepin (Linux):
- 2.0 --> 9.12 and later on 12.12 --> 2013 --> 2014.3 --> 15.3 --> 15.11 --> 20.0

And TDE:
- 3.5.13.2 --> R14.0.0

[Brane215]

That's basically an insurance against bugs and would come at a price.

Not true. It would be just a statement, warrantying that no one was dicking around while writing it.

And nothing prevents you from lowering the bar for free products. But even free stuff would need to satisfy some minimums.
You can't go around poisoning people with free samples just because they are free.
Same principle should bind SW developers.

Every SW can fail, but if they find some braindead f**p, quilty party should be liable.

[motang]

I just recently as of this week jumped from Thunderbird on over to Evolution, has better IMAP support and supports tasks and calendar without extra work on setting them up.

[tornado99]

out of what game? i don't use pop3

[reba]

Mailspring is better than Thunderbird.

Mailspring doesn't support POP3 so is out of the game.

[tornado99]

It's not about 90s vs trashy trend. It's wanting to see a preview line of all my emails in the message list, something every modern client except Thunderbird can manage.

Also, why does Thunderbird insist on telling me that an email was sent at hhmmss for 6 month/year old emails?

[billyswong]

Still looks as ugly as it originally was 10 years ago

Even Microsoft's Outlook.com web client looks so much better and more modern than the 'straight-out-of-the-nineties' GUI Thunderbird has.

Thanks but no thanks.

The "'straight-out-of-the-nineties' GUI" is good, meaning it is not polluted by the trashy trend (Win8 and Gnome3) that happened over the last decade.

[tornado99]

Mailspring is better than Thunderbird.