![]() ![]() This is mainly because the product was not developed in a while and has plenty of bugs still open. no longer supported by the original authors.Geary promises a modern design (apple like) with a great user experience. On the bright side, it has calendar and address book built in. Or it just believes you are offline, even though you obviously browsed the internet to find the force online flag: evolution -onlineĮven the fact that you can force evolution to be online makes me laugh. I don’t know much about the exchange support, as my work machine came preconfigured with it and it just works. Other than look, I really don’t have big issues with it. I know I should not complain about this because: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it, but I don’t like command line web browsers either, so call me crazy… I have problems occasionally with the Google calendar provider and exchange is extremely poorly supported (see the endless forks and wars of Github repos: Ericsson, ExchangeCalendar, etc). For calendar support, Lightning is still a hobby project.I agree that most EAS servers offer IMAP and SMTP enpoints for compatibility, configuring this manually is so tiring … There is nothing wrong with this protocol. I know that the purists will shout blasphemy at me, but I am pretty sure that many businesses use exchange servers for they daily activities. This has been improved in recent versions of Thunderbird by adding a browser sign in for Gmail… If you look at their KB page, this is still causing problems to some people… NO real two factor authentication for OAuth 2.I am an old Thunderbird customer, but I still have a few problems with it: All these can be configured as plain old IMAP accounts in the end, but I prefer my GMail setup with OAuth2 and with contact support. I have three e-mail accounts that I use constantly: Google GMail, Office365 (Microsoft Exchange) and plain old IMAP/SMTP. I don’t have any involvement in the project (other than a small code contribution). I’ll keep you posted with my honest findings. Update (): I have decided to write an update of this article due to its popularity so far. Thought that there might be better options available. I have been using Thunderbird for a while now and was pretty satisfied. For the past few weeks, I have been testing various email clients on Ubuntu 16.04. ![]()
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