Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by qrobit on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:08PM
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May I ask what features you consider essential are lacking in Thunderbird? I'm not a heavy e-mail user (for now, hopefully ever), and Thunderbird seems very feature-packed to me.
The only thing I'm afraid about is Thunderbird wiping one's inbox [^1] [^2] (both by the same user with discussion underneath)
[^1]: 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807723#18808520
[^2]: 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492682#44519053
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by warkdarrior on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:11PM
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Thunderbird does very poorly with both large inboxes (e.g., 20000+ emails) and large email messages (10+ MB). Search is also super slow.
My softmaker office suite also.
Anyway, I do admit I mostly use libreoffice nowadays, except for 1) communication with customers, and 2) a few excels libre can't handle.
I still have to find a good alternative for (local installed) outlook, I'm trying out thunderbird, but I'm not sure it would be able to replace outlook. I still have to try whether it can handle a 50gb imap inbox, and besides lacks a few essential features.