Re: Good email clients?

On 2024-04-14 03:32, Borax Man wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:19:20 -0500
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
 

On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:

Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported.  Had enigmail
continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

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Check contemporary Thunderbird.
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I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
being natively included in Thunderbird.  Or at least contemporary
Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.
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  I looked up what happened, Thunderbird did indeed implement its own
functionality, and this was to replace Enigmail.
 I'm quite happy with Claws Mail and Mutt, and having briefly seen
Thunderbird as it is now, I think I'll stay as I prefer the simpler
Claws Mail interface.  Also, I learned that I should stick to software
which is less opinionated, which doesn't have big visions, grand
strategies and the like.  This way its less likely to just change
things on me, or decide for me how I should interact.  I don't want to
build my digital world on ever shifting sands so I prefer to stick to
smaller, simpler software where there is less of a focus on
innovation.

IMO, every open source project is subject to big changes when the developers "are replaced" or simply tire out and take new people. The new people prefer to do new things in their own way instead of learning the ropes and maintain old things.
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Cheers, Carlos.