Thunderbird is utter shit now - Can you recommend me something decent?

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I've installed the most recent thunderbird since now I again need to keep track of multiple email accounts and a docen or so feeds, and the experience has been horrid, unlike anything I remembered from 5+ years ago thunderbird. I need a replacement for it, meanwhile, here are the grievances.

  • No extensions at all - Mozilla or whoever develops it now has killed the ecosystem again and devs didn't bother to do all the work again, same as with firefox but on a whole new level. Most extensions are "not compatible with your current version"
  • Sluggish - Freezes when maximizing, and it is managing barely any traffic rn
  • Feed reader categories is plainly broken
  • Ugly, has distinct "new mozilla" look and no way to override it (but I can live with that, is just a nitpick)
Any replacement for email/feed readers you can recommend?
 
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Mutt/neomut? I never got into them, and apparently you need to use the `atime` function on a file system for them to work right, and that's not really great with COW file systems, but if that's not a problem for you they could be an option.
 
I feel you. I use Thunderbird Portable v58 with all the extensions that make it worth using. Because Yahoo is gay, even more so now that Verizon owns it I use the new Thunderbird Portable with a 2nd profile for my old Yahoo accounts. This isn't sustainable for the long run though.

I'm looking into Claws Mail or Sylpheed. Evolution on Linux is good if you want something like Outlook.
 
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CLAWS seems good in general, but I tried it with an IMAP account with tens of thousands of emails and it didn't work well, was constantly stuck loading things from the server. If you have a lot of emails you may want to try something else. I am using a console mail client now.

@Kiislova have you tried SeaMonkey? I assume the email functionality still works as well as it ever did, they never change anything too much. It does RSS too I believe. If you're using RSS, really, you'd be better to move to The Old Reader or Feedly or something, or a separate desktop client of some kind. Most RSS feeds nowadays are useless anyways, you need to pass them through FiveFilters Full-Text service to get any useful version of the feed with the actual text of the articles.
 
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I quit using Thunderbird several years ago for similar reasons, pretty much cut Mozilla out of my life and never looked back. Since then I've been using an app called BlueMail to route all my email to my phone. Never had any issue getting it to connect to any email server, it works fine with POP, IMAP, and SMTP, and I've never had an issue with volume of email on an account. Not sure if it's the best around but it's served me well. There are desktop versions for all 3 systems as well.

 
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Maybe try the beta version of Thunderbird? Those performance problems were resolved sometime in the last year or so. Using the newest version means even less chance there'll be any extensions that will work though. Somehow the release version is always like a half a dozen versions behind the beta. Current release is v78, beta is v84. Ever since Mozilla adopted the Google style of versioning way back when who can even keep up.
 
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I quit using Thunderbird several years ago for similar reasons, pretty much cut Mozilla out of my life and never looked back. Since then I've been using an app called BlueMail to route all my email to my phone. Never had any issue getting it to connect to any email server, it works fine with POP, IMAP, and SMTP, and I've never had an issue with volume of email on an account. Not sure if it's the best around but it's served me well. There are desktop versions for all 3 systems as well.

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Looks nice for android, maybe I'll give it a go on desktop as well.
 
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Maybe try the beta version of Thunderbird? Those performance problems were resolved sometime in the last year or so. Using the newest version means even less chance there'll be any extensions that will work though. Somehow the release version is always like a half a dozen versions behind the beta. Current release is v78, beta is v84. Ever since Mozilla adopted the Google style of versioning way back when who can even keep up.
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See this is why I can't do open source software or community driven sort of freeware. Nothing works, there's always some tiny loophole in the compatibility list that always manages to fuck you disproportionately. Then something gets fixed and manages to cause a new bug, downloads cp to your computer and alerts the police, etc.

Outlook nigga4lyf
 
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