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Hence the spin-off app. A ground-up, UX focused app which does not have to meet feature parity, would attract users who are already confused by email clients.

This is a different target audience to the people who typically use Thunderbird at this time.

For some people Apple Mail is enough.

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Those people are targeted by Geary.

TBH, anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email, so I really don't need those features.

On the other hand, I find slack and its ilk terrible compared to email.

Plenty of people I know use that at work, but email is really nice, and I love the features Thunderbird has.

I'm not expressing a preference, just pointing out what people do. You'd better like the features email has because it has a hell of a lot of inertia at this point. That said, it does have the killer feature of genuine interoperability, which virtually none of the new contenders even try for.

> anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email

You live in a strange bubble.

We're not corresponding via email... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Between github, SMS, social media, IRC & slack, video-conferencing, blogs, RSS, etc., email has become the medium of last resort. I still get a lot of email, but it's mostly automated notifications, and I usually have to log in somewhere to actually recieve a document because email is insecure.

If someone do not use email hardly can be considered tech savvy. Sorry.

Perhaps he/she work for a company that do not really know IT so force their workers to use limited and limiting platforms, but it that's remain for personal world then no, it's might appear to you a tech savvy person but that's only due to Kant-ian glasses, not reality.

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