What fool put a background logo over a non-mobile friendly page?

In any event, this feature set looks nice.

As per the FAQ:

We will submit all changes to upstream to eventually benefit Thunderbird.

As per the FAQ they seem to share the exact same profile so you can seamlessly switch between them (provided both are the same dot release).

Edit: in case that doesn't work, run betterbird -p and select the right profile. For me it chose the wrong one.

Ngl that link puts me slightly off. It reads exactly like what people booted for very good reasons say

The following paragraph shows how so-called cancel culture was used weaponising [...]

And in the email, Mozilla talks about him violating their "inclusivity" policy... we also don't know what was reported, only the reasons stated.

Not saying that it wasn't unjust, just that we only have 1 perspective and it's written in a way that raises some red flags.

If you read the developer's background and reasons for the fork, it's actually a lot more....... cringe.

Pretty much, the guy lost his shit because Mozilla is woke / SJW / DEI and all the lovely buzz words used by certain people.

Too lazy to look it up today maybe later. There has got to be a term for people who just can't wait to point out whatever they deam as a social injustice to appear right about their choice or signal to others in a feeble attempt at taking the moral high ground. OSS is becoming more and more bogged down by people who spend more time on the politics and whether or not their feelings were hurt rather than the actual utility of the project. This is the equivalent of 'you offended me and you should feel bad' when you are the one being offended. Get over it. Stop trying to drag everything through the mud in perpetuity because somebody on the internet hurt your feelings.

Turns out nothing will live up to this standard over that timeline so maybe find a more constructive thing with your time.

It‘s coming along in Thunderbird, they continuously mention it in their monthly development blog.

Exchange Web Services support in Rust

November saw an increase in the number of team members contributing to the project and to the number of features shipped! Users on our Daily release channel can help to test newly-released features such as copy and move messages from EWS to another protocol, marking a message as read/unread, and local storage functionality. Keep track of feature delivery here.

If you aren’t already using Daily or Beta, please consider downloading to get early access to new features and fixes, and to help us uncover issues early.

The homepage of their website also has a very 'holier-than-thou' feel to it, it's not horrifically bad, but something about how it's written makes me feel like I'm being preached to by a televangelist.

betterbird.eu/##

In linux it doesnt have a tray with mail count that sends a notification when new mail arrives. It's a pretty basic feature nowadays to be honest. It didn't even have the auto fetch every 30 minutes when I switched!?!! Like Thunderbird expected me to click on the sync button every 30 minutes. That's not how people use email I'm sorry.

I agree that all those calendar and contacts features are completely unnecessary and that it could integrate with other tools instead, but the main use is lacking.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the article

A wise choice in this case. It's 23 paragraphs that mostly describe standard Thunderbird features (as the author usually does not use email clients) and only one list with three (!) bullet points of new features in Betterbird.

Edit: to save you a click, here's the list from the article (the actual feature list on the project page is longer):

Some notable features include:

• System Tray Icon (Linux)
• Accent Colors (for folders)
• Multi-line Inbox View (disabled by default)

System Tray Icon?!? What is this sourcery?

Sounds so futuristic. I mean I may be stuck in the 70s reading my electronic mail in pine on a pdp11, so that may influence my judgment.