The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your #Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your Gmail email, contacts, and calendar data.
The "Learn More" link confirms:
"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."
With this year’s version, we’re delivering much more than just another yearly release. Supernova represents a modernized overhaul of the software – both visually and technically – while retaining the familiarity and flexibility you expect.
It's your first step into the future of Thunderbird.
After 2 - 3 weeks of trying both @protonmail and @fastmail I have decided to fully switch to Proton going forward.
With Proton you get email, ProtonPass, Proton VPN and other stuff. You also get 500GB of storage instead of the measly little 100GB of storage that Fastmail offers. Notifications on Fastmail were also VERY VERY delayed most of the time, on both Android and iOS.
Die nächste Umfrage steht an: Dieses mal möchten wir von euch wissen, welchen E-Mail-Anbieter ihr nutzt, oder ob ihr einen eigenen Mailserver betreibt.
Falls die vorgegebenen Optionen nicht zu eurer Anwendungssituation passen, freuen wir uns auch über eure Kommentare.
Sobald die Umfragezeit abgelaufen ist, werden wir die Ergebnisse zeitnah auswerten.
I currently recommend avoiding using, and/or contributing to their products, until they fix their false advertising.
They are actually licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA (Non commercial, share-a-like), which is not an open source license (as commercial use allowed is a requirement for open source).
When confronted on Github, the issue was shortly closed, saying that the libraries used for the apps are open source, and that they have no plan for allowing commercial use for their apps.
I pointed out that open source requires commercial use, and I got this reply from their CEO:
"Commercial use is not a requirement for open source software. Study the MongoDB case."
Didn't know that MongoDB is open source. Because it's not. It's source-available, not open source.
Well, can't blame for users not checking this. Even It's FOSS News publication (https://news.itsfoss.com/skiff-mail-review/) got baited. Startups are using open source software's reputation, without contributing to the community (by using an proper license).
About half of the Fediverse addresses typed by FediForum attendees into the session notes are missing the leading "@".
People typed in their very own Fediverse handles. And because they came to FediForum, it's very likely they are very well acquainted with the right syntax.
Pretty strong circumstantial evidence that most people won't be able to distinguish Fediverse handles from e-mail addresses.
I have long believed that they should be the same.
(For background: One of Thunderbird's core principles is the use and promotion of open standards - this focus is a rejection of our world of closed platforms and services that can’t communicate with each other. Our upcoming marketing efforts will really lean into this, and we want a long-term hashtag to accompany it.)
I have decided to go with Fastmail as I feel it meets my needs a bit better at this time. I have even decided to go with a paid plan, which is something I thought I'd never do, pay for email!
I can’t get over how cool it is to view my posts from any server. I’m definitely going to use activitypub for my social media I’m planning on making. I was going to use @Discourse , but considering it’s like #GitLab where you are only able to self host and each instance of discourse can’t interconnect makes me kinda sad. But activitypub seems like the only way I feel happy in both ways.
The one thing I don't like about @fastmail is that you are limited to 100GB of email storage and there appears to be no way to increase that limit unless I'm missing something somewhere.
While 100GB seems sufficient, I'd really like to have at least 500GB of storage.
On my Gmail account I could purchase extra storage and I had 2TB of storage and was using 54% of that.
For the next several weeks (and months?) I'm evaluating at least a dozen open source and commercial #email apps.
Now, I'm honestly not saying this because I work at @thunderbird, but the new #Outlook is a buggy mess within the first 5 minutes of use. I'm quite surprised that "Switch to New Outlook" toggle is even there.
My Gmail account requested re-authorization twice, and switching off Focused Inbox completely zapped everything from the message pane, and I can't get it back.
We're getting closer to Thunderbird for Android! One of our next steps for K-9 Mail is to incorporate Thunderbird’s Autoconfig mechanism. This will dramatically improve the new account setup experience.
From #archlinux to #windows the Tuta desktop app runs great on every operating system under the sun! 🌍
If you aren't already using it, you can download it for free! Access your emails, calendar, and contacts securely without needing to open a new browser tab. 🔒
What is your favorite OS and what gets you excited about it? 💻
I'm sad, I would really love to go back to hosting my own #Email server again but it's not feasible anymore after running my own for almost a decade thanks to @MailInABox by @josh as it's like a full time job managing deliverability and such. Plus with email security these days you pretty much need an email security gateway and most proper security products only work with Google or Microsoft. Plus to get guaranteed delivery I needed to setup and pay for dedicated relays. #InfoSec#Linux