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Thunderbird 91

by charsi on 10/27/21, 4:26 PM with 24 comments

• by dang on 10/27/21, 4:59 PM

  Thunderbird 91.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151942 - Aug 2021 (258 comments)

• by stormbrew on 10/27/21, 4:59 PM

  Thunderbird is basically the only email client that works the way I expect an email client to work, but it has some real warts that I wish they'd fix. They're not flashy UI things though, they're stuff around how it handles very large imap folders.

  If you have hundreds of thousands of emails within reach of thunderbird it will by default download all of them. Try to index all of them. And it will devour your CPU and disk space and RAM to do it. Every time I set it up again for the first time it's a race to turn off the excessive indexing before it irreversably decides to chew up gigs of my disk and permanently be stuck using at least 2-3GB of RAM when loaded. And it's really hard to find all the indexing options.

• by mwexler on 10/27/21, 4:47 PM

  Still the primary email client among all of my family. From the novices to the pros, Thunderbird just seems to work for them all. Big fan.

• by MayeulC on 10/27/21, 5:28 PM

  I wish thunderbird had better search functionality.

  For instance I can't specify that I am looking for mail either to or from a specific sender trough the search UI, only mails with an address as both to/from, which litters the results with mailing lists that have 100s of recipients.

  Due to this, I often resort to zimbra for searching my mail box. The interface is much more effective.

• by w_s_b on 10/27/21, 5:00 PM

  Thunderbird does not have beautiful UI, and is not as “geeky” as some terminal-based email clients. Still it is one of the standard email clients which sysadmins try to teach users to use, but I have the feeling that it is the old people who stick to Thunderbird.

• by kendru on 10/27/21, 4:46 PM

  I honestly had no idea that Thunderbird was still around. It looks kind of... nice, actually.

• by reagle on 10/28/21, 1:41 AM

  Sadly, I’m still stuck with 68 so I can keep using the external editor plugin.

• by rsyring on 10/27/21, 4:54 PM

  Anyone have a good solution for syncing Google contacts? The extension I used stopped working a few versions ago and, last time I checked, wasn't planning to support Google accounts.

• by bovermyer on 10/27/21, 4:48 PM

  Does Thunderbird have a hot key to archive an email?