I ditched Thunderbird for Mailmate last year, after getting frustrated with just how slow and clunky Thunderbird was, so much of the time.
I really wanted to like Mailmate. It does tick a lot of boxes. But it's expensive and I found it to be too glitchy to justify that kind of price. It would often error out on all my accounts, throwing up endless dialogues, telling me that there was no password stored in the keychain for each account [not true!] an issue that's been reported several times over the years and never been fixed. Similarly, when sending messages, I'd often see similar errors and the message would end up in both my Sent and Drafts folders. So I was never quite sure whether it had actually gone or not. And having to re-send lots of emails with a "Sorry if you get this twice, but..." disclaimer at the top soon got boring.
I'm now back on Thunderbird and, while it still looks like something from the 1990s, it does seem a bit less sluggish than I remember. Maybe Mozilla are finally getting their act together?
>>Spark - By far the best I've tried so far. But, and it hurts... I choose not to use them now that Ukraine is being invaded both geographically and digitally. In this case I'm rather safe than sorry.
EDIT: I don't get the connection between stopping using Spark and Ukraine being invaded?
I looked at Spark a while back too. It was the fact it's 'rent-a-software' which put me off going there.
@Normille, thanks for sharing! I may give Thunderbird another shot then. Regarding Spark; it’s owned by Readdle which is a Kiev, Ukraine based company whose users supposedly are not affected by the invasion. I just personally feel uncomfortable using them, but wish them the best of luck!
https://readdle.com/blog/readdle-on-ukraine
Normille|3 years ago
I really wanted to like Mailmate. It does tick a lot of boxes. But it's expensive and I found it to be too glitchy to justify that kind of price. It would often error out on all my accounts, throwing up endless dialogues, telling me that there was no password stored in the keychain for each account [not true!] an issue that's been reported several times over the years and never been fixed. Similarly, when sending messages, I'd often see similar errors and the message would end up in both my Sent and Drafts folders. So I was never quite sure whether it had actually gone or not. And having to re-send lots of emails with a "Sorry if you get this twice, but..." disclaimer at the top soon got boring.
I'm now back on Thunderbird and, while it still looks like something from the 1990s, it does seem a bit less sluggish than I remember. Maybe Mozilla are finally getting their act together?
EDIT: I don't get the connection between stopping using Spark and Ukraine being invaded?I looked at Spark a while back too. It was the fact it's 'rent-a-software' which put me off going there.
fsto|3 years ago