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For the next several weeks (and months?) I'm evaluating at least a dozen open source and commercial apps.

Now, I'm honestly not saying this because I work at @thunderbird, but the new is a buggy mess within the first 5 minutes of use. I'm quite surprised that "Switch to New Outlook" toggle is even there.

My Gmail account requested re-authorization twice, and switching off Focused Inbox completely zapped everything from the message pane, and I can't get it back.

@killyourfm is the #email client integrated in @Vivaldi on your bucket list? It's the spiritual successor of Opera's mail client M2 which they stopped maintaining in 2014 or so (and which until recently was my client of choice...). I've tried to get used to TB many times but always found it too heavy to support my preferred "no frills" email #workflow wildente.vivaldi.net/the-no-fr

WildEnte · The no frills email workflow | WildEnteFeel good with the simplest of all email workflows. Receive, read, mark as read. No strings attached.

@WildEnte @Vivaldi It honestly hasn't been on my radar to try personally. My first impression of it (based on actual screenshots from Vivaldi) was that...well... it quite resembled Thunderbird.

Custom folders, mostly monochrome action icons, no multi-line message preview, tabbed workflow, etc.

I'm not sure how I feel about "a database of all your messages, labels, filters, searches is maintained by Vivaldi..."

@killyourfm @Vivaldi re "not sure how I feel about 'database of messages ... is maintained by Vivaldi'" - no privacy issue lurking here, this is strictly within the local client.

TB defaults put accounts and folders in the front row, I have to turn on unified inbox. Yes quick filters exist but TB feels like made for filing. Vivaldi is the other way around: unified inbox and filter toggles first. Plus I like the browser integration.

Unsurprisingly TB is much more mature & feature complete (c:=

Jason ➡️ 🎒 Oregon Coast Trail

@WildEnte @Vivaldi Ahh, thanks for putting my mind at ease about the database. For some unknown reason my brain defaulted to "Vivaldi the brand and its offices / servers" rather than "Vivaldi the software."