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

[Dea1993]

The most bizarre version jumps in history:

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

this isn't bizarre, simply follows firefox ESR releases.

[tildearrow]

this isn't bizarre, simply follows firefox ESR releases.

Thunderbird and Firefox are separate software.
And Firefox is in a version number battle with Chrome...

[Turbine]

The most bizarre version jumps in history:

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

Rich text emails output HTML. So using a browser to render it makes sense.

[Nth_man]

The most bizarre version jumps in history:

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

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

[Dea1993]

Thunderbird and Firefox are separate software.
And Firefox is in a version number battle with Chrome...

but thunderbird always jumps from version x to version x+y,
so you should consider also the jump from version 68 to 78, from 60 to 68, etc....
this is a normal thing for thunderbird, not a strange exception

[dremon_nl]

Tried many, many email clients. They all suck. TB sucks much less and it has a bunch of useful add-ons. For example it can decrapify the ridiculously stupid Microsoft "safelinks". It has a nice calendar functionality which integrates well with office365 via tbsync addon. It never crashes. UI is great, dunno why people are complaining about it. Great desktop business app, like it should be.

[kpedersen]

For mailing lists and things I use Mutt. However for one project I have to use Thunderbird.

The reason being is that many enterprises these days don't use correct standards like IMAP(s)/SMTP(s). Instead they use a completely non-standard piece of shite called Microsoft "Modern" Authentication for that Office 365 nonsense. Which depends on a fairly hefty web tech ability to deal with the stupid oauth system.

As far as I know, as bloated as Thunderbird is, it is the only open-source email client that supports this shite.

There is davmail (to make a bridge to standard protocols) but that needs Java which I also prefer not to install.

[Mike Frett]

I'll keep using Sylpheed, thanks.

[smitty3268]

I'd love to see what would be left of those "features" if govenrment would force producers to vouch for the product.
So, when some security exploit crops up and someone gets owned that he he'd have great chance of suing theirs ass for the damage.

Thunderbird is on life support already, because no one cares about it. If anything like that happened to make it more difficult, they'd abandon Thunderbird entirely in a heartbeat and it'd be a dead project.

[enzo1982]

I'd love to see what would be left of those "features" if govenrment would force producers to vouch for the product.
So, when some security exploit crops up and someone gets owned that he he'd have great chance of suing theirs ass for the damage.

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

With such a rule, the software landscape would go back to what it was like in the early 90s. Want an e-mail client? Get a license for $200. Browser? Same price. A Linux distribution might run for $500. Want to develop software yourself? Get an IDE and compiler for just $2999.

You'd love that?