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[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

This doesn't really seem like something that needed to be done. Thunderbird already has too many features. It needs less, not more. A bunch of stuff in the email client part is also badly designed. That needs fixing, preferably upstream, but I wouldn't think of that as feature enhancement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

In linux it doesnt have a tray with mail count that sends a notification when new mail arrives. It's a pretty basic feature nowadays to be honest. It didn't even have the auto fetch every 30 minutes when I switched!?!! Like Thunderbird expected me to click on the sync button every 30 minutes. That's not how people use email I'm sorry.

I agree that all those calendar and contacts features are completely unnecessary and that it could integrate with other tools instead, but the main use is lacking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Thunderbird definitely does have autosync nowadays. No tray icon, true, but it can send native notifications which isn't much worse.

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