I never left Linux, so for me it's always been an improvement (my past
clients include pine, mutt, emacs-mail). But i can imagine it's rude
awakening.
I do go back between the online and thunderbird version of our umd.edu
google access,and generally I cannot find things in the browser version
as easily as in thunderbird.
So I continue to use thunderbird, though the biggest drawback is also
its strong point: you have control over the mail folders you want to
keep on your local hard drive. Useful if you're not online (murphy's law
tells you this will come very handy)
Minor risk factor: DIT. The 2FA authentication was recently broken,
but fixed a few days later. If it's a linux issue, DIT might give this
a lower priority than in win/mac :-(
- peter
On 11/6/23 15:33, Thomas G. Sweeting wrote:
Greetings Fellow Linux Users,
I have taken my first tentative step in transitioning from MacOS to
Ubuntu.
I got Thunderbird to talk to my Apple iCloud email account and
discovered almost immediately that it seems to be a terrible email
client for 2023. In 1998 I would have been happy with it, but not today.
So, I am wondering if I should just stick with the webclient for gmail
and iCloud or if there is a "better" email client for Ubuntu?
In case you are wondering, my biggest problem (so far) is that there
doesn't seem to be a way to tell Thunderbird about all the mail
folders and sorting rules that I have in iCloud mail. I shouldn't be
surprised at that, but I don't know if I really want to go to the
trouble to rebuild all that, only to discover it might work as poorly
as mail sorting does in MaOS. It also is kind of ugly and I think it
put koolaid in my fish tank.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Tom
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Thomas Sweeting
Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute
University of Maryland
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