It’s a shame that Thunderbird still doesn’t have true running-in-background and silent startup-in-background features yet. This is definitely something Mozilla needs to get working on for Thunderbird, in my opinion.
Psst @thunderbird you hear me? Maybe some sort of background task that lives in the system tray that continues to check and notify you of new emails or calendar alerts even after the main app has closed, and silently starts up with the OS on logon.
I have just posted basically a complaint to Microsoft's Feedback Hub app about how bad and screwed-up their new Outlook app is. If you are on Windows as well, please head over to my suggestion there and upvote it; make the folks at Microsoft see this, please.
Finally decided to ditch the horrible new Outlook app (which is nothing more than a glorified web app that's painfully slow, bloated, and broken half the time) and switched to Thunderbird. Not going to look back here, Microsoft took a perfectly-good mail/PIM client and destroyed it.
The worst thing about the new Outlook app was how Microsoft stuffed actual ads into it. And not like "hey check out this app that the devs totally didn't pay us to promote! 👀" ads, I mean actual, full-on promoting garbage and junk ads. Worse, they made it look like email messages too. URGH.
With the TBSync and the Exchange ActiveSync Provider extensions updated for the latest Thunderbird versions I can now also access all my Outlook services in Thunderbird too.
@eonity Well this is the day I changed my default search engine, bye Google. Honestly, the search experience has already been really bad for quite a while anyway.