Recommendation for e-mail client for several accounts

J_B

Well ... don't say I didn't tell you so!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣😉😁😉

Not sure what add on's you have but I use ABP, Emoji, and Send-Later (useful for sending messages later than when you write them late at night!)

Good luck.

BooJewels

What exactly did you tell me - that you've personally used it for 12 years?  That in itself, doesn't automatically make it suitable for my own needs - means it works well for you.

I still don't like it much - the folder list is a complete dog's breakfast - it's down to finding which view is the least unfathomable and ugly.  But it's the best of the email clients I've tried and I just can't spare any more time on the task, I need something to be working.  I've hit a workable compromise, shall we say.

I listed and described a couple of Add-ons I found especially useful in my post.  Plus I do use Send Later as that, along with a British spell checker, were about the only things available when I first installed in 2 or 3 weeks ago.  There are a lot more now - I'll keep my eye on them and see what else appears.

Neil_Jones

I'm intrigued as to why you think the folder list is a dog's breakfast, considering it's about as close to Outlook as you can possibly get.

As to "the only [addons] available", not entirely sure where you've been looking but there are thousands of them. many of which have been around for years:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/

RumRat

BooJewels said:

Just to close this off, I think I've ended up sticking with Thunderbird.    I did try Mail on Win 10 @RumRat - but it really was way, way too simple for my needs.  Might work well with one email address, but wasn't for me.

Obviously your decision and I have no comment on that. However, I'm not sure about your assumption that the Mail app would work well with one account. Mine is currently handling 8 email accounts perfectly happily.
That said, the way you work with email is totally different to me, so, apples and oranges....Glad you sorted something.

BooJewels

Neil_Jones said:

I'm intrigued as to why you think the folder list is a dog's breakfast, considering it's about as close to Outlook as you can possibly get.

As I said in an earlier post, I've never used Outlook, or even seen it in use, so I had no idea if it might be suitable for me and I wasn't prepared to pay 120 quid to find out.  So, by that token, Outlook perhaps wouldn't suit me either.

As to "the only [addons] available", not entirely sure where you've been looking but there are thousands of them. many of which have been around for years:

As I said earlier, the version of TB I downloaded was a new version that at the time, the Add-ons weren't compatible with.  When I clicked the Add-on Manager within TB, there was a red announcement flash saying that due to a re-organisation (it's now officially a Mozilla product I think, rather than Open Source?) many of the Add-ons would no longer work with this version (68.9.0).  There was a link to click for 'Add-ons compatible with your version' and it then presented me with about 3 or 4, one of which was the Send Later one I mentioned which I added at that time.

Since then, many more have seemingly done whatever was necessary to make them compatible with the current version and many more are now available.  If I view the Add-ons page within the TB browser tab (the page you linked earlier), most of them are greyed out as 'not compatible with your version'.  So, yes, there were thousands available, but seemingly only some are now compatible with this latest version.  A few I've looked at have comments from the developers that they're no longer going to support them going forwards as the task is becoming too onerous.  So it may be that if you have legacy Add-ons that you're using now, if you upgrade your TB, they may no longer work.

Just looking at it now to check the details as I post, I can see there are more Add-ons available today than there were yesterday, so some new ones to investigate.

Neil_Jones

Thunderbird has always been Mozilla.  It was uncoupled a few years back but they've taken it back in house again.  The extensions thing is probably the same thing that happened to Firefox, in which a major change knocked out a swathe of legacy add-ons for the browsers.  With the release of Thunderbird 68 in August 2019 it now only supports WebExtension addons.  Legacy Addons can still be used if a special "legacy mode" is enabled, but even for this, the legacy Addon has to be converted.

BooJewels

I wasn't quite sure what had happened with Mozilla - I always thought it had been, then it seemingly wasn't, then it was again.  I've not kept up with it over the years.

Browsing through some more since I posted, it looks like a lot more Add-ons are now showing as compatible.  So they're seemingly either upgrading or passing some approval process to get listed again.  I changed the theme too - which doesn't really look any different other than putting a line in where one was missing and didn't sit well with me, so that alone feels like an improvement.  I'll gradually knock it into shape.

BooJewels

ETA:  The post above mine was removed as SPAM, so my posting now doesn't entirely make sense. 

Not sure that's a recommendation for email software - more like a venue to buy domain names.  I'm not following any links and recommend others don't either.

As the thread has been bumped and contributing posters may re-visit it - I'll add a quick update.  I'm actually starting to like Thunderbird - I'll revisit the other versions I've used on laptops and update and upgrade them with the Add-ons I like accordingly.  I think the original problem with disappearing mail was something with my domain account being set up initially as IMAP - it seems to have behaved much better as a POP box, which also suits my methodology better too.

I discovered that I could change some of the appearance using a custom style sheet with userChrome.css and that has allowed me to tweak some of the visual things I didn't like about it (more to address when I've time) and after a week or two of just working with it, I am much happier than I was. 

DoaM

kolitmig, kolimig and kolithmig are the same person making the same spam posts.