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Thunderbird...or Betterbird? ...or Evolution? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys!

At this point it's been a while since I don't use a mail client, last time Evolution sorted my need of Activesync compatibility and I used it extensively. But these days I no longer need that, as I'm planning to use just protonmail and maybe also sync gmail to it (although for gmail I kinda prefer the web). Reading through the comments on the app I saw mentions about Betterbird...What's your thoughts on this?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thunderbird.

Betterbird is a fork by a developer who was booted off the project. I've looked at the project and it's literally built on top of drama. It's not a good look, and it does not feel like it's professionally developed.

Evolution is also really really good, but it's a GNOME app. I currently use GNOME and I am not oblivious at how nice the experience of using native apps of it is, but I also know that they don't follow you "well" if you migrate to something else. Make no mistake, Evolution will absolutely run on a KDE desktop, but it won't feel as integrated.

Thunderbird is amazing. It's in active development and it's going through a major visual overhaul / update I really like. It's cross-platform at heart and it looks and works the same on all platforms. It also has the nicest calendar on Linux. Overall, I pick Thunderbird as my client because it's amazing, has a lot of development, has all the features I need and it's made to be cross-platform, so it's not "soft-tied" to any desktop enhancement or GUI toolkit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I actually like the elementaryOS enail client - not sure if it has an actual name