03-07-2025, 10:13 AM
Mozilla have tried hard to break Thunderbird. Turn off "remote content" and read acknowledgement because both tell spammers you exist and the "Remote Content" also can load malware.
Also Thunderbird settings and content can be copied to Linux.
All flavours of Outlook are prone to being pawned. Spent 30 years replacing them. Thunderbird can import existing downloaded emails and to an extent settings. Also supports OAuth for gmail, MS Mail, etc.
I use K9 mail on Android because the stock email client simply gives all the credentials to Google and is really an app communicating with a Google server, just like GMail. The K9 leaves POP3 content on the mail server, so I have the same account in Thunderbird on PC with "don't delete on download, delete on server after 20 days).
A very long time ago I used Eudora, but it was ASCII only so had to be ditched.
Also Thunderbird settings and content can be copied to Linux.
All flavours of Outlook are prone to being pawned. Spent 30 years replacing them. Thunderbird can import existing downloaded emails and to an extent settings. Also supports OAuth for gmail, MS Mail, etc.
I use K9 mail on Android because the stock email client simply gives all the credentials to Google and is really an app communicating with a Google server, just like GMail. The K9 leaves POP3 content on the mail server, so I have the same account in Thunderbird on PC with "don't delete on download, delete on server after 20 days).
A very long time ago I used Eudora, but it was ASCII only so had to be ditched.
