Missed Office Hours last week? No problem: the full recording is ready to watch on YouTube and @tilvids.
The 3 developers behind the effort to bring native Microsoft Exchange support to Thunderbird discuss their adventures in Rust, and explain the long-term benefits and steep challenges associated with this project.
I have upgraded two systems to #Ubuntu 24.04 now and also tried #Thunderbird as snap (which is the default for Ubuntu 24.04) on another machine.
The system upgrades were incredibly smooth. Thunderbird in general also works fine, but it doesn't support #GPG with private keys on a #YubiKey yet (which is my usecase). (Yes,there is a workaround, although clunky.)
So it looks like I'll stay on 23.10 a bit longer on my main machine.
I didn't expect to fanboy out over a Cards View update that just landed in #Thunderbird Beta 126.0b1, but here we are. I LOVE IT! It’s a MAJOR visual improvement, and I’m ridiculously proud of our UX team for landing it.
This also needs to be repeated over and over: our team growth and user growth, all the visual and technical improvements, our increasing sustainability, NONE of it would be possible without the generosity of our donors.
The Thunderbird Beta channel just updated to version 126.0b1, and it brings major visual improvements to Cards View! 😍
(Shown here with all visible messages selected.)
A big round of applause to Micah and Sol from our UX team for their awesome work on this, and to our community for your valuable feedback here and on our #Thunderbird UX mailing list (https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux).
it's interesting how I lately have started to move a lot of my online activities back to #Thunderbird (on Windows)/#Claws Mail (on Linux) as standalone desktop applications. It is quite convenient to have all the different communication channels I am interested in in one single spot. (email, usenet, rss, irc)
In fact #Mastodon is the outlier, nobody so far seems to be interested in making a Thunderbird plugin for that. Although I guess I could use the bitlbee plugin @kensanata made for that.
finally logged into tilde.club today, which is such a neat concept but seems a bit dead. at least at the times when I tried to visit it.
on the other hand I got znc and an irc daemon running without problems and now have my private bouncer for... oh... well, lets face it, #IRC is hardly the chat system of choice by now.
but I can use it and that's neat.
by the way #thunderbird made issues again. or, well, #betterbird, which is mostly a better version of TB. But one thing they didn't fix is that the IRC client in their app doesn't send server passwords to servers. which is a problem when using it with znc, because that one uses the server passwords to identify which network to connect to.
anyway, it can be added in the Config Editor, so at most an inconvenience.
I assume barely anyone actually uses TB for IRC anyway.
I donated to @thunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy. (They need to add a Mastodon share intent on their donation page)
Our Rust and Exchange Community Office Hours start in one hour, at 16:00 UTC! Find out how to join us on Big Blue Button in our blog post. Hope to see you there! 🦀
If you are in or around #Zagreb, come and listen to my talks at #dorscluc
The first one will be about bringing our fun back in our work lives by contributing to #foss projects like #Thunderbird Project with some #heavymetal inspiration.
The second will be for #OpenStreetMap on how to start as an absolute beginner and why to do so. I'll cover tools, ideas and show lots of examples.
In case you're not following our blog (gasp!), our Rust developers have the technical details on how we're using the language to bring in native Exchange support in the latest post.
So if you're a fan of all things Rust and email protocols, and you want to know what we've done so far and what's coming next, give it a read - and come to our office hours all about Rust and Exchange tomorrow at 16:00 UTC!
I moved to a Thinkpad w541 with coreboot so I needed to set up my email encryption on Thunderbird again.
It took me more time to reconfigure it again - as usual - so I decided to take notes this time and create a blog post about it. As this might be useful for somebody else … or me in the future :-)
@kubikpixel
Genau. #davx5 ist eine sehr wichtige APP im Bezug auf Sync mit einer #Nextcloud und allen Endgeräten. Diese APP kann aber nicht die Filter aus #thunderbird synchronisieren, weil #k9mail keinen import dieser Filtereinstellungen vorsieht. Also bis heute.
"No, I’m sorry, Thunderbird’s calendar isn’t a good calendar. It’s dialog boxes from 1998 coming up with that “donk!” sound, not being dismissable immediately, and also coming up twice for no reason, or telling you that you modified the event when you didn’t"
@nadim writes about the (bad) state of calendar software on desktop.
If you're eagerly anticipating Rust and native Exchange support in Thunderbird, have questions, or want to know what this is all about, you'll want to tune into our next Community Office Hours on April 23 at 16:00 UTC. 🦀
I'm sorry but I have to quickly let out some disappointment with #Thunderbird. Why do the devs decide to implement huge new features like an entirely new Chat (Matrix), when the basic mail features don't even work? For instance, the search. Search something with the full search (Ctrl-K), 0 results. Search for the same thing with "quicksearch" (Ctrl-Shift-K)? Works.
The calendar? Processing event invites that are more complex than the absolute simplest? Fails more often than not.
First of all: I am completely happy with #Thunderbird but the problem you're mentioning is very common, especially in Open Source Software, but can be found in almost every aspect of technology and crafts:
The last mile is always the hardest. It's so much more fun to do the first 90% of something, then the last 10%.