THUNDERBIRD: the SUCCESS STORY of LINUX! - 6.4M in Donations - eviltoast

A very interesting video about the Thunderbird Project successful donation process and how KDE can improve them by following their step.

  • Patch@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I’m not really sure I understand this post.

    I use Thunderbird on several machines, and I use broadly the default config (no fancy business). I also have the same email accounts set up on my Android phone (Gmail ones on the native Gmail client app, an Outlook one on the Outlook app). When accessing my email on a machine which doesn’t have Thunderbird set up for me (such as my corporate laptop), I just use the webmail interfaces.

    And it all works…fine. why wouldn’t it? Thunderbird and the Android apps just send their service calls off via IMAP and it all sorts itself out without any fuss from me. All the data lives off in the cloud anyway; it’s just a different way to interact with it other than the web interface.

    I just happen to like having all my email accounts in one combined place, running in the background and throwing system notifications.

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      1 year ago

      I think they’re expecting thunderbird users to use POP instead of imap, Gmail integration, OWA, or other protocol that expects the mail to stay on the server.

      Leaving the mail on the server has been great in Thunderbird since the Mozilla days. I did jump to Gmail web app a long time ago though. I’m assuming Gmail support has improved in the last 15 years?