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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been using Thunderbird as my daily driver for a while now.

  • Great automation and filtering. -10$/year add-on for a complete MS suite interop for work.
  • Customized the theming.
  • Tracker blocking.
  • Calendars
  • First class Linux support

It's just as good as every other email client but without them reading it. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate more on the add-on, what's it called? I just started using Thunderbird again but at the moment only for my personal addresses.

[–] roomey 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably referring to OWL plugin. However your admins can allow IMAP access to outlook365 and with tbsync, you get full integration for free. OWL is good tho too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I am my own admin, running my small business so I am user/admin/spam receiver :). I might stick with Outlook for business for the moment. Don't want to mess around. For private use, Thunderbird is chef's kiss .

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OWL is good, I use it, but its calendaring leaves a lot to be desired. :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's true, I'm just happy it shows my appointments.

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

What's the addon?

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

How does the tracker blocking work? It blocks remote content by default, but does it block tracking pixels when I load images? I also installed the ublock origin addon, but it keeps saying that it didn't block anything

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

By not downloading anything except text and Html the sender can't tell whether you opened it or not. However, pressing tracked links will track you if you don't have some privacy thingy on your browser.