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Thunderbird

https://www.thunderbird.net

It is usable for me only with expression search NG (https://github.com/opto/expression-search-NG). TB is my daily driver but with every update I fear that they will destroy sth again: expression search failed to work for over a year due to their breaking changes. Switched to another extension until that one stopped working. Now back on expression search as opto has ported it.

Oh my god, I have wanted this kind of search in TB for so long.

Been a solid Thunderbird user for well on 15 yrs. Should I cringe that I'm a POP user? I know IMAP is the way, but I cherish my offline email archives and I don't want my email taking up space on the host I use. Am I doing it wrong?

If it works for you, why would you be doing it wrong?

That my friend is a good question. I get the side-stare for saying I still use POP. I sync my mailboxes between machines and it seems to work for me. Yes, working on multiple machines sharing an inbox at the same time is problematic, but so for me would be the IMAP alternative. As long as POP doesn't go away I'm good.

beginning of this year i made tabula rasa and set up my personal server up from scratch. i use postfix and dovecot for mail and made a conscious decision against imap in favour of pop3. i know it doesn't matter a lot in the end but i like to try minimize network traffic and resource consumption server side.

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