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Comment by pachico | Hacker News Reader

Maybe someone can help me out. I am always wondering if I should use Thunderbird considering I only use Gmail, both as in private and at work.

I fear the integration with calendar won't be the same but I'm considering it.

Can someone tell me good reasons to switch?

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I use thunderbird because the interface is better for bulk managing email than the webapps from either gmail (my previous provider, and my employer's current provider) or fastmail (my current provider). For work, the real threaded view is a big improvement over the gmail UI collapsing it into linear conversations. Calendar integration is there and is mostly "fine". I won't say it's competitive with google calendar as it exists today, but my needs of calendar are less than my needs of mail.

Thanks a lot!

You can try it out without any harm. Is having your own copy of your mail local important to you? Have you ever thought of switching email providers, maybe having a client that you're used to like Thunderbird would make the provider matter a lot less.

Good questions. No, I don't need a local copy and I'm quite ok with Gmail at the moment.

I was thinking about using Thunderbird to interact with Gmail, in reality.

Ever want to scroll through search results when the list is longer than 100? In Thunderbird I can search 200,000 messages, get 10,000 results and scroll the messages immediately and instantaneously from top to bottom. The same exercise in Gmail's web interface takes 4.6 days to complete.

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