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The upcoming (recently released) thunderbird version might be what you're looking for! It's not yet in most official repos though.
He said he’s using Arch so it should be available. I got it on my EndeavourOS and I’m really satisfied.
Oh I missed that he's using arch. In that case, he can install it from AUR, possibly building it himself, followed by only a few hours of troubleshooting what broke in his system after doing that :-P
What are you talking about? It’s trivial to install a new app. One command, no reboot.
sudo pacman -S thunderbirdliterally effortless.Yup. Because it's in the main repos. Though with all the hype around it, I felt kinda disappointed with it. For me, it didnt follow the typical 3 column layout, and opened the actual email under the list of emails, rather than next to it.
You can adjust that, just so you know. It’s configurable!
Yeah, I couldn't find how, and I'm no longer on Arch (unrelated), thanks anyways.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I really like thunderbird so far, thank you for the suggestion, is there a way to get email notifications even while the client is closed tho? seems like I only get notifications if I keep it perma open.
I've never used it myself, but I've heard a lot of people use something called birdtray to do that
I usually just keep it open on another desktop. But if you really want a tray icon, there are utilities that allow sending arbitrary programs to the system tray. I havent used it for a long time, but I remember using kdocker successfully in the past.
How is it? I was put off the last time I tried it due to the fact that it didn't seem to run in the background. Also wasn't great with office365 (which I have to use due to work)...
I'm using Thunderbird for my outlook.office365.com email account which is managed by employer. It works perfect.
However, it's also possible that your administrator has different server settings, denying the access of Thunderbird.
TLDR, I think it worth a try
It is available on snap in the beta channel if you want it through a package
NO SNAPS!
Do grow up