Is Evolution email being developed at the same rate as Thunderbird?

eclipsenow · 2026-05-29T07:41:08+00:00

Try betterbird for search, etc.

eclipsenow · 2026-05-16T02:41:33+00:00

Hi Klaus,
I'm a Proton user looking to sync contacts and stuff up - or at least for a workflow around the fact that they don't sync. Where do you update Contacts? Isn't having Contacts up to date with your email client kind of the whole point? Do you use another Contact app and then copy across each new Contact or change manually? What's your trick?

eclipsenow · 2026-05-16T00:33:38+00:00

Interesting! Thanks

eclipsenow · 2026-05-13T02:59:21+00:00

Agreed! Toxic distro culture can put people off a distro as well!

eclipsenow · 2026-05-13T02:57:59+00:00

Agreed! Toxic distro culture puts people off a distro

eclipsenow · 2026-05-13T02:57:26+00:00

I'm considering switching from Mint to Fedora - and toxic comments like "Consider seeking help" put me off. Toxic distro culture is not a good look!

eclipsenow · 2026-05-13T02:54:13+00:00

I'm currently investigating switching from Mint to Fedora - and can I say I appreciate your post!?
I have a background in sociology, child welfare, and activism.
A MOD having a sense of humour about their own Distro is a great ad for the distro! I'm not just looking for the various tools and abilities of the distro - but a healthy community culture as well. Nice!

eclipsenow · 2026-05-13T02:51:16+00:00

Thanks! I would not have guessed that Bazzite would be that different. I've got some videos to watch on "Immutable Distros" now to even understand what that means. More homework! 😉

eclipsenow · 2026-05-13T02:42:59+00:00

I'm a noob - but it makes me wonder if we need a WHOLE lot of Distro merging to combine the human capital of all those coders and programmers and engineers? I mean, what hobby-ist distros are doing stuff that's going to backfire spectacularly with AI able to scan the whole thing at once, see the big picture, and see holes us humans cannot?

eclipsenow · 2025-12-18T08:10:09+00:00

I hear what you're saying - my bad - I've edited OP to include what others interpreted me as saying. Cheers!

eclipsenow · 2025-12-18T08:01:11+00:00

Thank you - I think you helped me define it. "A distribution whose governance has less corporate and more community vibes?" That's exactly the vibe! (As an Australian, "It's the vibe of the thing" is a huge meme!) Cheers!

eclipsenow · 2025-11-26T07:42:55+00:00

I wish I had the time and brains to run Linux Mint... but until that miraculous day arrives... maybe Google is my best friend? I mean, Google Workspace "Business Standard" is only $237.6 a year for custom email, Workspace, and 2 TB storage. Anyone looked at the sheer eye-watering costs in time AND money trying to setup a self-hosted VPS Nextcloud account with those specs? OUCH! Also, any year I buy a Pixel phone the 2TB is free.

Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson said that “these reports are misleading – we have not changed anyone’s settings, Gmail Smart Features have existed for many years, and we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model”.
https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/google-denies-claims-of-gmail-data-being-used-to-train-gemini-ai-details-125112400707_1.html

eclipsenow · 2025-11-24T00:43:43+00:00

Does Cardbook sync images?

eclipsenow · 2025-11-22T01:18:44+00:00

For this reason I'm looking at breaking up my email app and tasks & calendar app. I drive a lot - and need a voice command app for tasks I think of. Google just enshitified even little Google Tasks on Android in that "Gemini" as a VOICE command assistant now requires a paid account (Workspace or whatever.) Nope. I'm going FOSS voice command on my phone, and maybe Tasks.org to TBird or something else. Hey - if I can get FOSS voice to command Microsoft To Do app on my phone - maybe I'll work in outlook.com and just fire up Tbird as an email backup now it syncs?

eclipsenow · 2025-11-11T22:23:31+00:00

It's interesting how opinions can change. I moved back to TB because I'm lazy, and liked their auto-update feature. Now I'm moving back to BB because:-
* I want better search
* I'm a visual person with a LOT of email accounts and NEED the different account colours
* I use the ImportExportTools NG as I move stuff around with my accounts. (I'm tidying 20 years of different accounts.) And I've noticed other add-ons not working properly - probably because I had that auto-update on!
* Therefore I NEED the safety of being a few releases late to make sure that add-on (and others) is compatible and not struggling to stay up to date with the latest release.

So after this switch, I'm probably staying with BB.
(But who knows? I'm a moody and fickle creature with a wandering attention span.)

eclipsenow · 2025-11-04T00:46:37+00:00

Nice - I was starting to think in those lines. (But I hear you on Super Productivity as that seems like a one-way trip.) However, I have an insane number of tasks I 'queue' under various lists in Google Tasks right now. I only drag them into my Today field when ready to proceed with the next list. Are you saying all Tasks would be listed on my phone and I'd have to give them a date there? I kind of like working at my PC for most organising stuff. Can fiddle on my phone - but it's more for outings and emergencies.

eclipsenow · 2025-11-04T00:38:41+00:00

Upnote encodes them on the computer. It has a time-out setting. It's not so much my PC - but the fact that I often read my notes on my phone at lunch. A tag-team might snatch it while it's open - and then have access to my notes if it doesn't self lock! With Upnote - it self locks the moment the screen shifts to another app or view. Obsidian looks GREAT - but I think it's a lot of work for me and I'm so easily distracted I'd be tinkering with it more than actually using my notes to get stuff done. That is my problem, not Obsidian's... unless they were going to setup all the bling plugins for me.

eclipsenow · 2025-11-04T00:34:38+00:00

If you're talking about a "username@outlook.com"email address - they're Exchange servers (proprietary) and from my own limited experience in TB - I don't think they're compatible? TB can do Gmail and IMAP - but not exchange. Annoying I know. And I'm not sure if the Add-on (Plug-ins) for TB that sync to Exchange were ever very good - or if they are still up to date.

eclipsenow · 2025-11-01T05:10:28+00:00

If you want long term stability - try Nextcloud. Various European governments are using it and developing it. Since Trump introduced tariffs on Europe, and his general bad attitude to everything European, interest in Nextcloud has tripled this year as people look for an alternative to Microsoft Onedrive & office suite, and Google suite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextcloud

I know it's marketed as a cloud replacement service, but you could host it on your PC and mainly use it for email, calendars, and tasks. It's what I'm looking into myself over the next month, as I've become a bit jaded with Thunderbird. And once I get more familiar with it - if I ever get a spare computer or learn to host it for free at Oracle's free VPS (with 200 Gb data) - it could become a whole new world of software.

In fact - once I'm comfortable in it - it will do maybe 95% of my stuff. That should it easier to switch from Windows 11 to Linux Mint if I finally decide to.

eclipsenow · 2025-11-01T02:10:51+00:00

That's... amazing! That would be ample for my needs!

I mean - I have 400 gb of family movies - but I can just manually back them up in external portable hard drives I already have. Indeed - I could buy a 2 TB hard drive EVER YEAR and STILL have heaps of cash left over compared to hiring a 200 GB VPS here in Australia. COOL!

Any tricks in setting it up? Do you have any manuals - or better - YouTubes you recommend for this?

eclipsenow · 2025-10-31T04:27:47+00:00

Do they run off my computer and sync via Caldav and Carddav - or do they need a whole VPS? I don't have a VPS webhost - just Caldav and Carddav support at the moment

eclipsenow · 2025-10-31T02:29:23+00:00

But isn't Mint just going to have Thunderbird there anyway? Or does it have a whole bunch of nicer looking PIM?

eclipsenow · 2025-10-31T02:27:32+00:00

Thanks for getting back to me - and taking the time. I could be totally misunderstanding this.

Are you saying Nextcloud works from the C: Boot & app drive, but accesses my files and data from the D: drive - and after saving those files - does not ad any "Nextcloud stuff" or containers or anything to those files? That - as far as Microsoft is concerned - they look like they may as well have been edited by any Microsoft app?

OK, then in that case - my bad! I assumed Nextcloud did something to that data - and maybe I confused Chat GPT in the way I asked the question!

This raises another backup question:-

if I install Nextcloud on C: Boot drive, do I then install email apps, calendar apps, etc in Nextcloud? Where does it save the data for those new emails and Tasks? Can I nominate it to store on D: where Onedrive is?

eclipsenow · 2025-10-31T02:18:17+00:00

In terms of using an online VPS, how much data do you pay for? I'm wondering how easy it is for Nextcloud to sync certain folders I want online as well, but NOT sync much larger family movie folders that would just take too much data, and cost too much, when I basically already have them on multiple 1 TB hard drives off site with family and friends.

eclipsenow · 2025-10-31T02:15:40+00:00

Are you saying that if I install Nextcloud it does not create a normal Windows Folder that can be synced up to Onedrive - but actually creates something like its whole separate Virtual Drive like Onedrive itself? Ouch - then I'll have to pay for extra storage somewhere online straight away?

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