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A few months ago I was tasked with switching our office from Gmail's web interface to Thunderbird and it's gone surprisingly well. Usually new software meets a lot of resistance and complaints from the staff, but I've heard mostly praise.

I've been playing around with a testing version (beta? nightly? can't remember) and am very excited about the chat integration. I'm not sure if it will be useful in the office, which is small enough for people to just talk to one another, but it could come in handy in some circumstances where we'd normally use an email chain.

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How do you handle calendar invites from thunderbird to include a google meet link?

Fantastical can do this, so I assume/hope there’s a plug-in for it.

We haven't tried... our office is small enough that we just use paper calendars, and rarely need to arrange meetings or other events beyond a few people.

That's kind of funny, our problem with Google calendar is that it keeps adding that when we don't want it!

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> switching our office from Gmail's web interface to Thunderbird

For what reason? Are they planning to leave Gmail? That’s just about the only reason for an office to mandate a specific UI for email.

Even if I had merely one e-mail account, I would make the switch, because Thunderbird is simply no BS and 10 times faster to work with, once you know what you are doing.

gmail used to be lean and mean, now it's bloated.. alas nothing new under the sun, and yeah in that regard TB is a massive relief.

Yes, kind of. We had been using a super janky forwarder setup to pass emails sent to our domain on to gmail accounts. We had some issues with it and I finally convinced the management to switch to actual email accounts. (Yes, I know there are pitfalls associated with using hosted email that isn't Gmail or Outlook in 2022.)

Thunderbird ended up being an easier option than Roundcube webmail (probably in part because some users had used Thunderbird in the past). It wasn't a mandate per se but my users aren't super technical and like to all use the same program, plus local storage makes it easy to keep local backups of mailboxes.

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