Are there any good add-ons for Thunderbird? I just found one that minimizes it at startup.

serious question - what is the usecase for such software when all email can be accessed via the browser?

>>105789906
>have to access all emails providers separately in different browser tabs
>have all emails in one place, in one program
>can sync emails for offline reading
>generally much better calendar support
Shrimple as

>>105789931
Spark desktop does this and you can pay if you want.

>>105788748 (OP)
>I just found one that minimizes it at startup.
you need a fucking extension for that?

>>105789906
All email communication happens via SMTP and IMAP or POP3 protocols. What you see in a browser is just a web-based SMTP/IMAP client, just like Thunderbird.
So what you just asked was "why do I need a native client when I have a browser-based client?" and the answer is simple: efficiency, speed and feature set. Thunderbird allows you to do much more than typical web-based clients. Also you get to keep offline copies of your mail with POP3 and and you can answer your mail queue while offline and send everything when you're back online, e.g. while taking a flight somewhere. Obviously there are other nice features, too, but if you're happy with your mail provider's cucked web interface, so be it.

>>105789938
Buy an ad.
Thunderbolt does it for free.

>>105790073
Spark does it for free too, you pay to have a home page and ai filtering (who cares). Besides Thunderbird is ugly and spark isn't.

>>105790103
It's an email client anon, does it read emails? That's all that matters.
You get a "home page" for free with thunderbird

>>105790120
Why would I care if my email has a home page if i want to read my emails in it. The homeage can give me money if it wants and i wouldnt use that mid 10s UI slow ass app.

>>105790160
Anon I think you might be retarded

>>105790183
Thunderbird went on a "Long overdue UI revamp" in 2023, here are the reuslts

>>105790218
Cool, it has emails

>>105790233
LOOKS FUCKING UGLY REEEEEE

Notifications take about 20 mins to show up

Piece of shit software

>>105789942
I don't speak nazi.

>>105790496
Stop making shit up to try to sell your web service, Arjun. You're like a walking abortion.

>>105789997
thanks for the explanation, anon!

>>105790554
it was more like an hour

costed me a fortune

>>105790653
They clearly neglected this app in favour of their browser, If they had a dedicated team or even handed it to someone else it would be so much more usable, but it's basically stuck with a 2005 codebase for no good reason other than "if it works dont fix it"

>>105790218
>>105790278
they both look fine

>>105788748 (OP)
interested, i always though some could be useful, but other than a nextcloud sinc i dont have anything
>>105790496
lol when i get an email i get a notification from thunderbird in the computer before i get it in my phone

>>105790689
Look around you anon, theres a world of possibilities in the market and u choose the one that looks like shit just because it's good enough, where's your sense of adventure? aesthetics? zen computing? settling is or the weak and old

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JqyglRJXzxaj8OcQw9jHabxFUdsv9iWJXMPXcL7On0M/

>>105790723
that doesn't look like free and open source software to me

>>105790723
Email client comparisson list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JqyglRJXzxaj8OcQw9jHabxFUdsv9iWJXMPXcL7On0M/edit?gid=1036735176#gid=1036735176

>>105789942
>Normales Fenster
Never heard of him.

>>105790673
>if it works dont fix it
and that's a good thing, nobody is paying for your client rajesh

>>105790521
You should

>>105791055
Most clients nowadays are free or opensource, and all of them are better than thunderbird

>>105791181
Wrong on both accounts.

>>105791608
Took me one second to look for this but bluemail has everything thunderbird has and better, gestures, mobile app, and everything that thunderbird offers for free, and most importantly: doesn't.look.like.shit

>>105791608
Actually tried out bluemail and thunderbird and thunderbird is indeed better, better privacy handling too....

There is a popular import/export add-on that is indispensible for me. It's the only one I use, though I have experimented with a markdown add-on.

I would really like to write my emails in neovim but I might end up switching to neomutt anyway