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Thunderbird isn’t almost abandonware.

It literally was abandonware for several years.

It was only recently resurrected by 1-2 devs a few years ago and they’ve had to rebuild the community, funding and contributor support.

The fact that Thunderbird worked perfectly well even while being abandonware is a testament to Thunderbird and email.

I think the last part they really need to get completed is separation from the Firefox code. We’re already seeing accelerating delivery of features which should hopefully improve.

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I've used Thunderbird for probably like 15 years now and this is the first time I'm hearing that it ever was abandonware. At no point during that time did I not like it much better than all alternatives. Pretty impressive given that it apparently wasn't being developed for several years.

You might have noticed that there was a period during which none of your extensions or add-ons stopped functioning? That was the abandonware period.

Now that it's ended once again some of my extensions have stopped functioning.

Good to see that the new developers are continuing Mozilla's legacy.

I do have to agree tho. They force-upgraded from Enigmail to the built-in PGP support which ended up broken for me. Since no one uses PGP mail I haven't bothered looking for a fix...

Does the Thunderbird calendar work as good as outlook for you? Does calendar invites and other communication programs have good integration with Thunderbird?

At my last gig I used a paid extension called owl to sync with outlook, even though the company did not support anything other than MS Outlook or the Office 365 web interface. It was not expensive and worked terrifyingly, even syncing the company calendar and address books.

I honestly can't be sure if terrifyingly was a typo here. Perhaps for terrifically..

I swear this Note 10 changes words that are a few words back. I've had similar "corrections" ever since I changed to this device. It's too late to edit now.

I'm going to experiment recording the screen while I type to confirm or deny this.

I always hear this brought up but how essential to emailing is calendaring? Is exchange support built in to mutt or pine?

Calendaring is very much important. How will I schedule meetings? Meetings, appointments are the most important things in business these days.

> How will I schedule meetings?

I suggest using a calendar.

What about sending meeting invites via email?

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