Thunderbird is the email client for people who want email to work exactly like it did ten years ago. that's their value-add, and it really should be their vision.
Stagnant is a negative characteristic. Keeping things that work the way they are isn't.
MSPaint hasn't been "stagnant" for decades, it was the way people liked it.
I think one thing that maybe kept ThB from innovating was that people took webmail to heart. It's few people who want a thick client or even want to go thru the config. What port, what server, etc.
On a mobile device, the UI walks them through the scenarios (Google, Microsoft, etc) so they usually don't have to guess or have "IT" set it up for them.
Plus, what ships with MAC and Windows is good enough for most people who do want some kind of thick client.
Regardless, ThB was the ugly child at Mozilla since ever. They should have taken the Opp when Eudora was finally killed, but I don't think Moz had the energy.
Airmail and Spark, among others, would like to have a word with you. Airmail in particular started out as a Mac client before being ported to iOS. There exists quite a market for good email clients, I would think.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-con...
It resembles the old Gmail interface, and it's open source.
Thunderbird will soon add support for webextensions, who knows what will happen of the legacy extensions further than short term ?
It seems to be a totally different thing than the regular message list, and only some actions work in Conversation mode.
1) Trusted identity assertion: I want to know with confidence (at a glance) that the sender is who I think they are.
2) Secure communication: I want the visual metaphor of email (private correspondence) to match the reality of email.
How great would it be if Mozilla lead the way to for email clients to adopt open standards to do easily do these things.
Some of us spell that "stable and reliable" and consider it the single most important property of our essential day-to-day software. If it ain't broke...
Once I have a functioning setup,I copy the profile wholesale from machine to machine. I use Thunderbird every day and have done for years.
What have you tried to find the cause of your performance issue ? Have you tried making a new user profile to test if your local profile got somehow corrupted ?
Also, I've met many people who experience similar performance issues, so I find it bothersome that because you've never encountered it you're asserting it does not exist.
This is also an issue that's span multiple machines and multiple clean installs.
There are bugs upstream for all of those. They're up there for years.
I've had to find a non google replacement for firefox, I don't want to go through this again to replace thunderbird.
Thunderbird has had a ML/usenet-like conversations view forever.
I am using TB as my mail client and there are so many things that work. Almost. So many things to configure, but not in the way that I feel would be natural.
TB is mostly worse than Outlook, but still much better than most other clients.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
Maybe I misread it, but to me it sounded like Mozilla did not have Rust support in Thunderbird, but it seems that there is some already ...
Still, Thunderbird needs a bigger vision. What does Thunderbird want to be? The cross-platform Outlook? Then merge Lightning into core. The native Gmail? Then get a conversations view. The backwards-compatible, easy, and secure mailer? Then merge Enigmail into core or make SMIME easy to use or get some Rust code in. The ultra-portable mailer? Then port it to Android and iOS. The super-flexible mailer? Then somehow help plugin devs.