On: About the future of Thunderbird

[johngalt]

What are the good alternatives for a lightweight IMAP email client? Outlook is pudgy and wants Exchange too badly.

[hub_ → johngalt]

Thunderbird. If you like how it is now, it is not gonna stop.

Folks, remember, the source code will be here, community contributor will still exist and contribute, etc.

[rlpb → johngalt]

Mulberry (https://www.mulberrymail.com/) is, IMHO, the best IMAP client ever written, but from an IMAP perspective (and not necessarily a GUI perspective).

I gave up on Thunderbird when it started to demand most of my system memory. I switched back to mutt.

[andrewbinstock → johngalt]

Drat, the best of the bunch was Eudora. But when Qualcomm abandoned it and turned it over to Mozilla, it became a lost child, stranded between its former self and Thunderbird.

That Eudora and now Thunderbird should be end-of-lifed makes for very few good free options.

[jeltz → johngalt]

There is Evolution that is worth taking a look at. But it was buggy and had problems with large mailboxes last time I used it (2 years ago?).

[cookiecaper → jeltz]

Even Ubuntu, which replaced Pidgin with the very inferior Empathy so they could be more "Gnomey", gave up on Evolution. I don't know that there's too much hope left for that one.

[jeltz → cookiecaper]

It was very promising at first. A simple no-nonsense IMAP client. But the buggyness is what killed it for me.