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Thunderbird's New Rust Integration: The Future of Email Clients? (debugpointnews.com)
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I honestly don't understand the love for Thunderbird... Tried it for a few months, loved it entirely until I discovered it was fucking losing days worth of emails

Lost, as in, nowhere to be found, no search or manual browse would find them, no way of restoring them. Had to go into OWA to see the missing emails

Then apparently I found out it's a known bug

I'm sorry but I would trade every bell and whistle for an email client that does not fucking lose your email

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe the issue was that you were using it to access some kind of Microsoft service and their improper IMAP implementation.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It was... I was accessing my work email which unfortunately runs on Exchange... having said that, sorry, either support whatever crap MS puts or out don't... "losing" emails cannot be part of a ready-for-public email client

    Now, from what I read at the time, it was not "Owl for exchange"'s bug, it was Thunderbird. It apparently happens with other email sources as well, however you can "repair" your mailbox to get them back when you notice

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It apparently happens with other email sources as well

    I deal with a lot of mailboxes and a ton of people using Thunderbird with ridiculous amounts of emails like 50-100GB accounts and even on the few times I saw Thunderbird failing it wasn't loosing anything.

    I don't trust Owl very much, the good news is that we will soon get an official and decent support for Exchange. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gmail has a bad habit of losing my emails anyway. Maybe yours too if you ever used Google Inbox.

    I migrated my main account to Inbox and it was honestly the best email experience I've had. Unfortunately, the forced migration following its collapse left my Gmail riddled with problems.

    Granted, it's not losing days worth of email. It just occasionally attempts to automatically categorize emails into categories that don't exist, removing them from my inbox and leaving them in a weird uncategorized limbo space. Once there, I have to search for them specifically before they will show up anywhere.

    The worst part is, it is so inconsistent that I have no clue when to expect it. I have missed major bills this way.

    I have a coworker who is also an Inbox refugee. He is the only other person I've met with identical Gmail issues.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Victim of the Inbox move myself.... Same as it happens with Thunderbird, I started noticing something amiss when searching for emails I was certain I had were coming back empty

    At first I thought my memory was not as good as I expected... But then realized what was going on

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean we are using Exchange email accounts at work with thunderbird, would be really lol if emails just get "lost". But yea for sure a problem of Thunderbird. No user nor microsoft problem... ;>

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    The email was right in my inbox in owa... It could be an ms issue although I had seen the email in Thunderbird, that's how I saw it first... Not sure how an email disappearing from my inbox is my fault

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