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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-with-ponies dept.

Mozilla is asking for feedback about Thunderbird and threatening a redesign. Thunderbird is the most feature-rich of the GUI mail clients, but as a result also has a lot of cruft. The goal of the survey is to learn what Thunderbird users think about the current design, what are the biggest drawbacks, what potential changes should there be, and so on. The claim is that the information will be considered before any actual changes are made to the program itself.

See also Bryan Lunduke's interview with newly fledged Thunderbird developer Ryan Sypes about future directions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BQugHIccTI

So if you rely on Thunderbird for any part of your work flow, speak up now before it ends up unusable trash like M$ Outlook or Apple Mail.


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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:57AM (2 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:57AM (#624054) Journal

    Looking at the linked page, I get that SOGo is a server, not a client like Thunderbird.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:03PM (1 child)

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:03PM (#624100) Journal
    It is a web GUI, but it talks to an IMAP server on the back end. If you're so inclined, you can run it locally with a remote IMAP server and point a browser to it, or use something like imapsync to copy all of your mail to a local dovecot instance, point SOGo at that, and then a web browser at that.
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    • (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:33PM

      by dry (223) on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:33PM (#624314) Journal

      Seems overly complicated compared to just installing Thunderbird and pointing it at your POP3 or IMAP account.