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What have you been using instead? I've been using Thunderbird since I was 13 at least, literally never used a single other desktop mail client since then. So I wonder what other mail clients people use.
I’ve been an Airmail (Mac) user for many years now. But it’s been really buggy lately and there’s no motivation to fix the issues apparently. So I switched to Thunderbird about a month ago after a lot of research. It’s … ok.
Again, I might be missing some settings to correct some of these issues, so take it all with a grain of salt. But these are my takeaways after about a month of usage.
Search is great?
One of my biggest issues with Thunderbird is that I can never find emails I want.
It has the most powerful search of any email client I've used. That was one of the reasons I switched. What issues have you had?
Search works really well for me. Definitely reveals a less aesthetic side of Thunderbird but it works!
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works to archive messages btw, I'm not sure about a shortcut for labels though.What a weird thing to read. I open my work's email in thunderbird because the search is so good. Outlook is really slow when searching for something and so so tedious.
In all fairness, my usage is still minimal at this point. I’ve only searched a couple of times, but the thing I needed popped right up. Maybe my experience will change over time.
Apple seems to have a lot more variety in the email client ecosystem than Win or Linux. One of those weird unexpected things.
Webmail, Outlook or Mac Mail.
I couldn't handle all the changes to outlook over the past year or so. I've been pretty impressed by Thunderbird. It's not perfect, but it keeps getting better and better with each release.
Just been using Gmail in the browser
Anything in a browser, I try not to install things if I can help it