Comments on: Betterbird – A Better Thunderbird?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:10:10 +0000

Wonder what will happen to Betterbird when Thunderbird goes full Rust?

Will it update automatically on Linux like Thunderbird is supposed to?

Btw, had issue with Thunderbird emptying delete folder on exit.
Just doesn’t seem to work.
So, now i’m looking at Betterbird to see if it will perform that function.
Anyone with such experience can confirm?

By: John Durso

John Durso — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:06:43 +0000

Hey Russ,
Thanks for the comment. I hope that Betterbird works out better for you than Thunderbird.
Yes, if you find a free software project beneficial, even a small donation helps the developer continue the project.

SHAMELESS PLUG, we at Daves Computer Tips also benefit greatly from donations. If you find DCT beneficial and want to help us continue, there is donation link on all our pages.

By: Russ C.

Russ C. — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:37:03 +0000

Thunderbird was the best, by far better than Outlook. But for the last few years, updates have been giving me issues. Patches and updates have fixed the issues, but it could take months before things work as they should. Plus when an update is done something may be fixed but something else may break.
The latest issue I am having is emails sent by Thunderbird are bounced back to the person replying to my email as not deliverable. My Internet Provider claims that my email software is the issue and told me to use their web client, yeah like that’s going to happen when I have gmail, yahoo, twc to name a few of the accounts.
The bottom line is, I am going to try Betterbird. Finding out the background on what happened at Thunderbird is disturbing and kind of explains why things seem to be unstable on updates. Knowing the person in charge of Betterbird WAS in charge of Thunderbird when it is reliable is another plus.
For all that read this, if something works well please donate a few dollars to the developer. I have donated a few dollars for the “free” software I use, and if I continue to use it, I have donated a few dollars again at future dates. These few dollars are less expensive than paying big bucks to buy or a subscription price that keeps coming back to haunt you. I am not saying to donate to everyone, but for those that help us with software or resources like a web page that WE DO USE REPEATEDLY, please consider even a few dollars, they do add up and can help in adding new features later.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:37:15 +0000

As a Flatpak (Linux) Betterbird will auto update.

By: JPM

JPM — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:17:23 +0000

Bonjour,
– dans à propos de Betterbird: il manque le lancement possible de la dernière mise à jour
– il manque aussi l’extension account colors permettant de colorer le fond d’1 ligne horizontale sur 2 de messages pour plus de lisibilité
– il serait bien d’afficher les lignes verticales de la partie des messages séparant expéditeur, sujet, date, taille, …
Merci

Hello,
– in about Betterbird: it lacks the possible launch of the latest update
– the extension account colors also lacks to color the background of 1 horizontal line on 2 messages for greater readability
– it would be good to display the vertical lines of the part of the messages separating the sender, subject, date, size, etc.
Thank you.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 05:46:47 +0000

Thanks, found it. I also found the forum (in German), which basically solved the problem for me. I couldn’t get Betterbird to read Thunderbirds emails. Turns out is was a flatpak permissions issue. Dunno, but for me it doesn’t seem to work as well as TB, except for the find command. Think I’m gonna stick to TB for now. It just seems to work better for me. BB refused to open an html link in an email, refused to play an mp4 attachment, and wouldn’t let me choose an application to open it with. Basic stuff that TB has not problem with. But that’s just my experience.

By: John Durso

John Durso — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 03:24:07 +0000

In reply to Ian.

On the support page, in 3rd paragraph or 4th paragraph click the “Contact Us” link or send an email to support@betterbird.eu

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 03:05:14 +0000

In reply to John Durso.

Doesn’t seem to be there any more… Would you mind sharing?
Thanks,

By: John Durso

John Durso — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:31:06 +0000

In reply to Ian.

https://www.betterbird.eu/support/index.html

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:11:47 +0000

Where did you find a contact email for Betterbird? I have not been able to find any contact details at all, and I have some questions. It doesn’t seem to be working as advertised, or at least how I was expecting it to.
Thanks

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:05:22 +0000

Some of my co-workers just switched from Thunderbird to Betterbird mainly because of the more frequent updates, as you mentioned.

Secondarily, my team-mates frown upon the ethics displayed by the Mozilla/Thunderbird leadership team and their culture — forcing out their prior co-founder/CTO and CEO (who went on to start Brave browser) and, as you linked to, forcing out/banning the original primary contributor of Thunderbird, who of course went on to start Betterbird.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:46:51 +0000

In reply to Mindblower. No, I did not give up too quickly and the first thing I do is reboot, as I make a living in I.T. I am on the road . So, I could not try it on my other computers. Suffice to say, I saw no value in wasting my precious time as I got what I wanted - the installer using Edge.

By: Mindblower

Mindblower — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:01:14 +0000

Sadly, some folks get frustrated too quickly and forget that glitches can happen at any time. I am speaking from experience, so before jumping to conclusions, try and retry. Even a simple reboot can often solve problems (use my opinion), Mindblower!

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:24:02 +0000

Thanks. I have the installer, thanks to Edge. My Firefox works fine, otherwise. It is not worth my time to troubleshoot it merely for this one reason.

By: Jim Hillier

Jim Hillier — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:56:05 +0000

@Carl & Brian,

Just to confirm. I accessed the site and downloaded BB fine in all four browsers: Firefox, Brave, Chrome, and Edge. No problem.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:14:29 +0000

In reply to John Durso. Thanks, John. So far, I have not encountered any issues.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:12:14 +0000

In reply to John Durso. Hmmm...I wonder why. I just tried again and the same result! Ok, I was wrong in my assumption. I need to investigate further. Thanks, John.

By: John Durso

John Durso — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:54:14 +0000

In reply to Carl. I just tried downloading BB in Firefox and didn't have any issues.

By: John Durso

John Durso — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:53:18 +0000

In reply to Brian. I just tried downloading BB and everything went fine. You might want to try again.

By: John Durso

John Durso — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:52:01 +0000

In reply to Harry. Harry, I do not think running Thunderbird v68 and Betterbird v102 is a good idea if you are using the same profile. Going back and forth between TB & BB could cause problems. If you plan on running both in parallel, I'd upgrade TB to v 102.x first. John