In case you're not following our blog (gasp!), our Rust developers have the technical details on how we're using the language to bring in native Exchange support in the latest post.
So if you're a fan of all things Rust and email protocols, and you want to know what we've done so far and what's coming next, give it a read - and come to our office hours all about Rust and Exchange tomorrow at 16:00 UTC!
I moved to a Thinkpad w541 with coreboot so I needed to set up my email encryption on Thunderbird again.
It took me more time to reconfigure it again - as usual - so I decided to take notes this time and create a blog post about it. As this might be useful for somebody else … or me in the future :-)
@kubikpixel
Genau. #davx5 ist eine sehr wichtige APP im Bezug auf Sync mit einer #Nextcloud und allen Endgeräten. Diese APP kann aber nicht die Filter aus #thunderbird synchronisieren, weil #k9mail keinen import dieser Filtereinstellungen vorsieht. Also bis heute.
"No, I’m sorry, Thunderbird’s calendar isn’t a good calendar. It’s dialog boxes from 1998 coming up with that “donk!” sound, not being dismissable immediately, and also coming up twice for no reason, or telling you that you modified the event when you didn’t"
@nadim writes about the (bad) state of calendar software on desktop.
If you're eagerly anticipating Rust and native Exchange support in Thunderbird, have questions, or want to know what this is all about, you'll want to tune into our next Community Office Hours on April 23 at 16:00 UTC. 🦀
I'm sorry but I have to quickly let out some disappointment with #Thunderbird. Why do the devs decide to implement huge new features like an entirely new Chat (Matrix), when the basic mail features don't even work? For instance, the search. Search something with the full search (Ctrl-K), 0 results. Search for the same thing with "quicksearch" (Ctrl-Shift-K)? Works.
The calendar? Processing event invites that are more complex than the absolute simplest? Fails more often than not.
First of all: I am completely happy with #Thunderbird but the problem you're mentioning is very common, especially in Open Source Software, but can be found in almost every aspect of technology and crafts:
The last mile is always the hardest. It's so much more fun to do the first 90% of something, then the last 10%.
Email Clients?
I'm looking for Outlook/Gmail options for Win10/11. In the past I used #Mozilla thunderbird but I need calendar integration. What else is out there that's good for Exchange/O365 #email
and not using o365, but some older support i did moving people away, only outlook client worked there.
their crappy-proprietary service doesn't play well (/nice) with non M$ email clients.
You've got questions, and we've got answers! We took feedback from recent social media, mailing lists, and in-person conferences, gave it to our team in last month's office hours, and then turned those answers into a blog! 📖
So if you want to know more about Thunderbird for Android features, or when full sender names are coming, read this short and sweet post full of information! 💡
Sometimes I’m still shocked at how awesome the Thunderbird team is. I’ve been in this industry for 20 years and the amount of shit people I dealt with it’s astonishing.
Everyone inside Thunderbird really cares about the people, the ethical and freedom aspects of what we do.
The work is hard and sometimes stress takes over the best of us, but we really built a team of kind and honest people.
What a refreshing environment! #thunderbird
After a stable release of K-9 Mail, our Android team usually spends a couple weeks fixing bugs. The bug hunt takes center stage in this month's #Android progress report, with cketti and Wolf ironing out a BUNCH of them.
We want to find bugs before our users do! So, since the release of 115 Supernova, we’ve been putting a much stronger focus on improving our automated testing.
Read all about it in this new blog from Staff Engineer Geoff Lankow:
We're often asked "When can I use Thunderbird in my browser?" It's a logical question! After all, Thunderbird was built on top of Firefox technologies, right?
🕘 December 2009: Maybe you were upgrading your computer to the new Windows 7, or checking out Ubuntu 9.10. Perhaps you were pouring all your free time into Valve’s ridiculously fun survival shooter Left 4 Dead 2. And maybe, just maybe, you were eagerly anticipating installing Thunderbird 3.0…
Step back into the Thunderbird Time Machine as Jason looks at what made this such a landmark release!
so my switch to #claws turns out to be harder than I thought, because I forgot the reason I didn't switch last time... gmail now needs Oauth2 even for pop3 authentication, and the process to get this working on Claws is so complicated I still haven't managed to get it done.
It involves creation a new project in Google workspaces and setting my account up as a testing user to be able to sign in. and it doesn't work.
so instead of dealing with that now I now am trying to get #thunderbird to pull newsgroups without breaking.
It's not like it can't do it. If I restart the client it works. Just when it tries to get new messages it breaks on previously unread articles.
so it works at startup, it doesn't work for the second pull onward. sigh.