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[–] 1 point 1 day ago

Interested in info about this and other mail clients on Linux too.

I tried linking my institution’s outlook to kmail. Multiple times. Never worked. Betterbird took the email and immediately autogenerated a working configuration.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Librewolf is a privacy oriented fork of Firefox, it grabs some setting from arkenfox. Betterbird is not a privacy oriented fork of Thunderbird as far as I remember. When I tried it the only thing I was attracted to was its tray support, but as I use non DE compositors, so far wayfire, labwc and sway (tabbed layout), and as there's currently a Firefox bug, I didn't see any reason to keep trying it, and now on sway with tabbed layout I see no reason for a tray any ways...

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Interesting.

    Did you read their website/faq? It very clearly tells me that Betterbird has a very different focus than LibreWolf. It's not about Privacy, it's about fixing bugs.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    How did you get it working? I am using the latest Mint with Cinnamon, Betterbird flatpak with Birdtray flatpak. I setup the directory for my two email inboxes and it displays the joint counter on BT icon. However whenever I open BT it opens BB and gives an error and keeps BB open over anything else.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What you're looking for is Dove:

    Dove is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability.

    https://codeberg.org/celenity/Dove

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hopefully we can get a Betterbird mobile app one day.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was looking into k-9 mail and it seemed decent

    What stuff did you want to have in a mobile app?

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Will it work with K-9/Thunderbird for Android?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The email servers themselves are separate (ex. Gmail, your school email server, work email server, etc.).

    Thunderbird / K9 are clients that let you access the email on your device

    So they should all be compatible with each other

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    No. Betterbird adds random features.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are there the same problems with Thunderbird as with Firefox?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I tried to use LibreWolf yesterday. The Flatpak version wasn't supported by KeePassXC, so that was a pass for me. The Fedora version did work with it, but it was also freezing my system and causing graphical glitches that were so terrible, I thought my hardware died. There were coloured blocks as well as weird pixelated warping. It's probably because I have Wayland, and I noticed that the Fedora version ran under X. I would have submitted a bug report, but I didn't even know where to start. Maybe I'll do that eventually.

    E: I have narrowed this down with journalctl to be an issue with amdgpu. This happenes on Firefox as well, but not other applications somehow. It's something to do with a gfxhub page fault. I'll have to see whether an older kernel version might help.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Strange - I'm on Fedora Wayland using the flatpak version without any issues.

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