I’ve never heard of anyone using Thunderbird, but I hear about other Firefox users all the time.
I want a new email place. FUCK GMAIL 💥 FUCK GOOGLE! I had to use MS Office for work once, it was okay. Better than Gmail by a mile. But you seriously think I’m gonna use Microsoft? Well, what else is there? If Thunderbird is alright I think I should give it a try.
I also need to find a way to make a new not-gmail email domain. No idea where to go for that. Uh, does Thunderbird have anything?
Thunderbird is not a email provider, it’s email client. Gmail is both a email provider and they have a webclient you can (but don’t need to) use. You can use gmail with Thunderbird, I do that.
The question is what are you looking for a new email provider or a new email client?
From their post, I’d assume they’re looking for both.
thunderbird is great. no complaints here. good to have your own offline copy and also to use openpgp implementation.
It’s been my daily client for probably 20 years now. My IMAP email account is around 80GB and it has no issues with that whatsoever.
Never understood how people use Outlook. It’s so obnoxious and slow by comparison. To obsessed with a “modern UI” or whatever I guess.
Quick filter is amazing, as is instantly archiving to year/month subdirectories.
it’s awesome, i’ve been using it for like 20(?) years.
the current beta version is great
I use it daily it works fine.
Thunderbird will be releasing a mail service called Thundermail.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/
If you ending up needing a mail client like Thunderbird, consider Betterbird. It’s just a more-polished version of Thunderbird.
That’s incredible. I wonder how long it will take. Sounds like swapping to Thunderbird now on my existing email accounts is the move. I’ll get used to the client then create the new email once they launch theirs. Beats paying for my own domain or locking in to Proton/Tuta
I use it, and have for decades. It’s wonderful and it just keeps getting better. Buy you own domain name, and a mail-hotel… Then you are good to go.
Yeah, thunderbird is solid as an email client. Can’t really think of anything I need to do with email that it can’t do
I daily use it for work. It’s great.
We are using Thunderbird for AGES. We basically switched over from the original “Mozilla Mail” client that we had used before, and don’t ask what we used before that…
But we always had our own email addresses since the 1990s, and our own domain since the 2000s.
Thunderbird is fine as a mail client. It doesn’t provide any email service, though.
For email service, Proton and Fastmail are top choices. Proton requires a “bridge” app in order to use clients like Thunderbird. On mobile, Proton only works via the Proton app.
As for clients, again, Thunderbird is fine. Betterbird is a better choice if you like Thunderbird but wish it weren’t so rough around the edges. If you are on Linux, I actually prefer Evolution to Betterbird/Thunderbird.
They will soon be an email service provider! https://thundermail.com/
It’s used in company I work in. It’s pretty solid, given how much data it has to work with, although it’s a bit slow. But that’s probably combination of shitty workstation, huuuuge inbox, shitty local mail provider and pretty slow internet speeds…
It slows down when you have tens of thousands of emails in one folder. Archiving old emails by month helps keep it running smoothly. For some reason, it won’t let you do that with gmail accounts unless you archive to a local folder though.
You don’t want to know how that mail abomination is set up here… Archiving? Blasphemy!
I have a good computer with a mid size inbox (too lazy to delete), fast internet, and like 4 different mail providers.
It’s still slow. I don’t hate it though.
It still works very well and I dare say it is one of the best email clients we have today. For both Windows and Linux.
I use betterbird
I use it as a client for a company gmail account and as an rss reader. In my opinion, it’s fine. Not great, but not bad either.
The biggest pro it has for me is functionality. Mail, calendar, RSS feed reader,… maybe even more that I do not use myself. And all of that for free.
On the downsides, I’m not a fan of the design, it feels pretty dated to me. Same goes for the UX, just navigating around gives me some 20-years-ago vibes. But that might just be my personal interpretation.
After all, it’s still miles better than outlook and their “over 700 third parties” carefully watching over your mails together with you. And since it is free, why not give it a try and see for yourself?
I’m confused, Outlook has 700 third parties but you’re using gmail?
Company gmail, yeah. Like, the company pays for google services and mail is one of them, which I am required to use. For my personal mail, I am a very satisfied tuta customer.
