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The Thunderbird story is an epic of countless individual stories, coming together to make something bigger than themselves. We're sharing those stories in a new series, and our first spotlight is on one of our amazing Bugzilla volunteers.

Arthur helps new volunteers document issues, as well as testing bug fixes. Read more at the blog, and find out how to share (or start!) your own Thunderbird story!

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Our First Contributor Community Highlight

In our very first Thunderbird contributor highlight, we shine a spotlight on Arthur, one of our amazing community volunteers.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Our refreshed Participation page lists all the ways to help - and right now, we definitely could use beta testers! Find out more under the 'Test' tab here: thunderbird.net/en-US/participโ€ฆ

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Thunderbird is a free email application thatโ€™s easy to set up and customize - and itโ€™s loaded with great features!
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I run beta versions since a couple month's and haven't spotted any issues so far. I now migrated from Win to Linux, but the Flatpak/Flathub beta does not seem to be up to date and thus I can not use the profile I had on Win (which had a newer beta version). Are the flatpaks official, and if so, how comes the Flathub beta version does not match the other beta versions? (I'm on Fedora, so no snap, and even on Ubuntu I wouldn't use snap ๐Ÿ˜‰)
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We took ownership of Thunderbird Flatpaks last year, so they're official.

What you're experiencing isn't typical of our updates, sorry about that! Flathub made a number of updates recently and it has caused intermittent issues with the Firefox infrastructure we use to publish beta. That issue should be fixed soon.

~Jason

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sweet, thanks ๐Ÿ‘. And thanks so much for the hard work everyone is putting in. I really appreciate the recent UI improvements and customisability and am looking forward to the first official Android release, so that I can ditch the Gmail app (K9 does not yet suit my needs, would need Exchange/ActiveSync since my provider doesn't properly support CalDAV/CardDAV, but I fear Thunderbird on Android will also be email only and thus not support calendar and contact sync via Exchange)
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@DaAnda First, thank you for the compliment about our recent UI improvements. I'll pass that on to the team!

Regarding Android: the engineers working on our Rust implementation of Exchange support for Thunderbird desktop are writing modular and reusable "crates" in a way that makes it easier to also use on Android. Hopefully, eventually, it'll be able to meet ALL your Exchange needs.

A bit more about that here: youtube.com/watch?v=7jNV1J2pdPโ€ฆ


Native EXCHANGE Support In Thunderbird? (Desktop + Android)

Is native support for Microsoft's Exchange protocol coming to the desktop version of Thunderbird? What about K-9 Mail and Thunderbird for Android? What's the...
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I did try #thunderbird and #k9, but I hit a snag: most of my email needn't be read, special offers, mailing lists on a tangent etc, Gmail adaptively 'classes' these into updates, promo, social etc so I can go into that box, select all, omit a few, and delete.

Is there a similar facility in thunderbird? A plugin perhaps? Please say yes (or soon)! It would be tedious to invent filters for each instance.

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@teledyn The best suggestion we have right now is to make a suggestion on Mozilla Connect (connect.mozilla.org) - and there may be a way with filters using the term 'unsubscribe' and the name of your social platforms to set broad filters that would hopefully catch the majority of things.

Mozilla Connect

Share product feedback, submit ideas for new features, and help shape future releases.
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