@UncleSpellbinder
I know you are on my list … but it’s different list! 
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Hah, that was my assumption too. I didn’t know why he seemed (my interpretation) to take it so personally as to seem to react that way.
Sometimes it’s hard to know what someone means when they think they’re communicating clearly and transparently.
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Did you get it to work?
I use Thunderbird on Android. It’s fine. And sorry for going out of topic.
Yes! But it didn’t work in Bottles from AUR. I used Wine 10.3 and Winetricks, to download all Fonts and .Net 4.8. eM Client works … Just tried restoring my backup that I created on Windows 2 years ago. It didn’t crash and looks good.
Then a message appeared that I don’t have a license, and so I’m not able to use my 4 accounts. I wanted to activate my lifetime license but didn’t work.
So I answered here:
I voted for a Linux version there. Hopefully there is one coming … 
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I actually just realized this.
You get a 30 day trial without licensing, then you will have to activate a free personal license or a pro personal license, which is not possible on Linux. So in 29 days now my EMclient installation will probably stop working, unless I create a new bottle and repeat the process every 30 days, that’s too bad if I still like the experience after 30 days there is no way I am buying a license for pro since I can’t activate it.
I’ll probably end up switching back to what I was using before after my 30 day trial which is Evolution which I find looking actually better than Thunderbird with my Gnome setup anyways, since running non-native software does have it’s disadvantages even if the licensing were to work. Would be great if they made a Linux version for EMclient but chances of that happening aren’t likely.
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I’m using Betterbird and really like it.
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I just set it to always hidden in systray config. Job done!
I find it odd that people are complaining about Thunderbird’s system tray icon. For YEARS, people complained about Thunderbird’s lack of one, so much so that extensions were made to add the functionality. Now that it’s there, people are complaining that it has a tray icon.
Yeah, I know it’s personal preference. Some love it, others hate it. There should at least be an easy option to disable it for those that don’t like it. Personally, an email app that doesn’t have a tray icon will never see the light of day on my computer. A deal breaker for me, for sure.
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I would give it more of a chance if it was actually useful. All it does is quit Thunderbird, an action I can carry out easier from the keyboard or even the main window. It doesn’t even show how many unread mails you have.
Pretty pointless at the moment but maybe they plan to improve it.
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I (opinion only) tend to think Mozilla’s codebase is barely on life support.
This looks like I could have written it, I have been through the exact same process, incl. with Kmail and Evolution. And each time I was basically forced to go back to Tbird for want of a better client.
Another issue I have encountered is that from time to time suddenly Tbird cannot log into one of my email accounts anymore because, so it says, the password is wrong when I have not changed a single thing. What I found is that simply deleting the “offending” account from Tbird’s list and then adding it again with the exact same password does the trick. Wow, long live Tbird.
I don’t know that life support is a fair term.
Thunderbird is a mature project that handles its use cases very well. In that situation it’s a struggle to find new features to add, hence the currently useless systray icon. The mail protocols are pretty stable to so no real changes needed for them. Failing bugs and security issues, there’s probably not that much to do.
Of course I could be wrong and there’s loads of new features planned.
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I don’t know why (not interested enough to try to audit it) but T-bird used to be fairly speedy, now it feels like it’s based on molasses, and as you said, it isn’t because it added a lot of new features. Optimization is poor (imo). There’s a lot of room to improve even without adding new features.
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It runs adequately in my experience and by that I mean I am not waiting around for Thunderbird to complete tasks like loading lists of mails. I have thousands of mails because I’m a mail hoarder!
If you are experiencing slowness, this is a bug imo and should be reported as such.
Yeah, until about 2 years ago, I had every email since 2000. I’m defn a data hoarder. Thunderbird couldn’t even handle deleting/moving/reordering that quantity. That’s when I gave up on Thunderbird and just went to the web interfaces.
All my mail goes in the 