Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" launched

I used Thunderbird about 10 years ago? Looks amazing compared to what I remember.

I don't like the new logo; it looks mean. The previous logo showed a charming bird that delivered my mail, the new one portrays a bird of prey clutching a letter, it will probably bite you if you try to retrieve the letter.

Looks nice. I'm not an email power user but I still use Thunderbird just to handle multiple accounts. I'm grateful to this software for simplifying my life a bit.

The new website is also pretty epic: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ (bit messed up on mobile)

Unfortunately the flathub version doesn't seem to be updated.

I may try Thunderbird again. Only thing I do not like about the screenshots is the far left toolbar, but I will still check it out.

They finally updated the calendar so it doesn't look like it's out of windows 95? Thank god. I really wanna use it now but I'm too tied down to Outlook now. I guess I'll try to migrate.

If it had a mobile app it would make it much easier. The Outlook mobile app is really good.

Just installed, it looks much better compared to 102 without removing any functionality. I love it!

I tried using Thunderbird like a decade ago. Wasnt a fan. May give it another try!

Why the hell can't I get that side by side view?

Hopefully after this they focus on the IOS app! Would love to consolidate so many different chat, email, and rss readers into one app!

Looks very gnome. Sadly I use KDE so it still looks like a foreign object, just like Firefox. I want native app to look like native apps, is that too much to ask?

Anyone know when/if this will be pushed to flathub?

I hope they fixed the performance as well. I have several crashes per day on debian with version 102.11.0

When starting it I have to wait for a bit before I click anything, otherwise it crashes. It also 100%s one CPU core regularly, I don't know if that is supposed to happen. It also sometimes does not show the content of certain emails. All that said it's still the best mail client I've used so far.

I’ve used thunderbird pretty much from the start, for the last 20 years or so. The UI was looking a bit dated, lately, so I’m really looking forward to this. The next thing we need is better performance (I may suffer more than most as I have literally hundreds of thousands of messages and dozens of folders on the imap server). Fingers crossed!

Can it connect to Exchange without a paid plugin?

Looking forward to trying it. It has been over a decade since I last used it.

Anyone know if Google Tasks can be integrated?

I might try it as it's looking a lot better. I really hoped they would have implemented https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847989 by now as it's the reason I use Geary currently.

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Nice looking icon for sure. Fancy

I would need JMAP support before I would consider a native email client again.

Is there now conversation view without having to use an extension?

Are there any plans for tray icon and desktop notification support? Those features are the only reason I would run a desktop email client, without them I'll just use a browser. I know Birdtray exists but I can't get it to work with flatpak Thunderbird.

That looks awesome!

Oh thank cthulu, I've been waiting for this for ages. I'm so glad Thunderbird is getting some much needed love.

I waited for Thunderbird to get good for so long, I ended migrating to emClient... Looks great, but I don't think I feel like resetting all my devices and systems again

This looks great. Would be awesome if i could host this in a docmer container so i dont need to manage installs on clients.

Just finished setting up thunderbird. The new design looks amazing! Although it has some UX problems, I hope they'll get resolved along the way.

Overall, pleased, and migrated all of my inboxes to it!

I've been using Thunderbird for ages. I like the card view, although I still prefer the list view with no preview if I have a ton of messages to go through.

That definitely looks different. I assume they still haven't put the system tray functionality back?

It's well past 15:00 EST and the version I get when downloading is 102.13.0 for some reason.

Edit: solved by itself after some minutes, probably a CDN thing.

Loving it so far! Anyone know how to change the font or font size when you view the message body as plain text rather than HTML? All the font settings I could find in the gui are not changing it.

Oh that's cool.

I'm definitely very boomer in that I still prefer to get my email via Thunderbird rather than through a web browser!

Can single-key shortcuts finally be changed/disabled? I can't count the number of times I thought I had focus in a different element or even different application and accidentally archived, marked as spam or otherwise hid several e-mails just by a typing a single word.

It took one release for Thunderbird to go from a pretty ancient looking program to one of the best looking ones out there.

Does anyone know if they've fixed performance? Thunderbird feels really slow to navigate and fetch messages.

I've tried Thunderbird and wasn't convinced.. My work life is basically email, and I've tried several email apps over the years, a lot more than most people. I've found Postbox on desktop and Spark on mobile to be the magic pair for me so far. Unless Postbox fails me, I don't think I'll bother trying anything else anytime soon... Though I'm open to suggestions for mobile, since there's room for improvement with Spark.

Oh no! It looks like an electron app.

Eh... it's pretty, I guess, but it's just too "appified" for power users. My Thunderbird UI is festooned with useful buttons and menus for quick access, and I like the old style of having elements tightly spaced to maximize contextual awareness.

This reeks of form over function. Yuck.

I want to love it but it's still ugly / dated looking. It's like the Linux of email clients.