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THUNDERBIRD 115 SUPERNOVA IS HERE! 🎉🍾

With this year’s version, we’re delivering much more than just another yearly release. Supernova represents a modernized overhaul of the software – both visually and technically – while retaining the familiarity and flexibility you expect.

It's your first step into the future of Thunderbird.

Get the details here:
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/o…

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email #Supernova


Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" Is Here!

More than just a yearly release, Supernova is a modernized overhaul of Thunderbird, but still feels comfortable and familiar.
Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
#email #opensource #thunderbird #supernova

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Ditol
Ditol
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I haven't used Thunderbird for two years or so now (due to some technical problens that Thunderbird caused with my e mail accounts after reinstallation). I would really like to give it another try, but I need to be able to import my old profile with all the archived messages and address book and so on. Is it possible to just copy and paste a 2 years old profile and use it? This used to be the standard way to migrate to a new machine, but will it work with several versions skipped?
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@ditol Terrific question! You can absolutely use your old profile, but it comes with a caveat.

Our suggested upgrade path is to go back and install/use the verrsion associated with your profile, then go through and upgrade to every major new version.

For example, if you last used that profile with Thunderbird 91, start with the last point release of that version, 91.13.1. Then keep checking for updates until you're upgraded to the latest version.

@Ditol
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Ditol
Ditol
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Thanks! So ist there a way to find out which version I used it with the last time?
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Kunal Mehta
Kunal Mehta
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"If it’s convenient for you, we recommend installing the Thunderbird Flatpak from Flathub, which is now packaged and maintained by the Thunderbird team."

Fantastic, will switch over to the flatpak :)

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chef 😎
chef 😎
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Very cool. Looking forward to trying the new version. 👍

And will there finally be an Android app that actually works?

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Jan
Jan
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Sorry, instead of stepping in the #future I keep on mailing like it's 1980 and stick with #mutt. 😅
#future #mutt
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eons Luna
eons Luna
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finally with a modernised interface; no more of that 1990’s/early 2000’s email client look.

I might try this out sometime later.

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lfromanini
lfromanini
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Finally! Oh, I forgot I use Debian... need to wait for the flatpak version be updated... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ccamara
ccamara
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great news! One questions n about tags: are these tags only used on thunderbird or are they also synced / stored at server level?
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beemdvp.xrd
beemdvp.xrd
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I completely forgot about thunderbird. I just used geary as it shipped with pop OS. Will check this out. Following #linux hashtags definitely helps hahaha
#linux
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duser
duser
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Dear lord this release looks so good
Im feeling bad about using a custom theme and messing this up
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David Fleetwood - RG Admin
David Fleetwood - RG Admin
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Glad to see you embraced Flatpak and as soon as it's updated I'll be installing and playing around. Any chance you'll be encrypting account credentials/tokens at rest on the device? I could be wrong but I read that they are kept in plain text which would expose them potentially to non-sandboxed local apps...
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Adam Lein
Adam Lein
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The unlabeled buttons and hidden menus are going to reduce engagement and usability. This has been shown by every usability study on the subject for decades. See: bookofadamz.com/general-user-e… #UXdesign

General User Experience Design Guidance - Book of Adam Z

This page lists design guideline suggestions backed by logical reasoning that has often been proven in usability studies. Many GUI designers either ignore or don’t know about many of these basic rules that should probably be common sense.
Adam Z. Lein (Book of Adam Z)
#uxdesign
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Koen de Jonge - SynQ
Koen de Jonge - SynQ
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I will just wait until it pops up natively on #NixOS stable, cannot imagine that will take long.

I have no complaints about the current interface, but I don’t mind getting something a bit more in line with what is usual in interface design today too. 👍🏻

I have been a thunderbird user for decades now and I still recommend it to everybody!

Thank you very much!

#NixOS
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Andrew Myers
Andrew Myers
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congrats 🎉. Excited for this and great to see the project pushing our new releases
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Oliver Calder
Oliver Calder
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Wow I can't wait for Thunderbird Sync, this should hide the final configuration pain on switching systems
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Cameron Mulder
Cameron Mulder
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between this and Mimestream the email app market is the most active I can remember.
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Ludovic Muller
Ludovic Muller
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Just upgraded! It's a great upgrade, and I love the new card view ; it feels more modern than ever. Congratulations! 👏
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快乐的老鼠宝宝
快乐的老鼠宝宝
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新官网的发布是否过于草率？
我检查了以下，目前翻译完善的语言基本都是欧洲语言，还有很多社区的本地化字符串尚未准备好，从发布字符串到官网直接部署生产环境用时太短，一共才给了多少时间？很多都没来得及翻译！顺便可以看一下RTL语言的界面显示到底成了什么样子。
而且很多界面都不见了，对应的字符串全都浪费掉了，这次115版本的发布充分体现了Thunderbird对各个社区劳动成果的不尊重，对各个社区发布时间的不尊重。
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Mutsuenka
Mutsuenka
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Finally I'll give it a try, been using Evolution for ages. But let's give Supernova a try.
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Zâhir Evliyâsı 🤓
Zâhir Evliyâsı 🤓
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Daha yeni kullanmaya başlamışken yüz yıllık simgesinin değişmiş olduğunu görmek ve üstelik canımıs #Firefox'un örnek alınmış olması 🥺♥️
#firefox
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Rive 🏳️‍🌈
Rive 🏳️‍🌈
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one minor complaint: could you please look into resizing the Thunderbird icon on Windows? It looks a bit too small compared to the Firefox logo and other circle logos on the taskbar. Otherwise enjoying the new UI a lot, thanks!
Windows 11 taskbar screenshot showing the Start icon, Edge, Explorer, Thunderbird, Firefox and Telegram
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saskoh42
saskoh42
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I'm using Thunderbird for several years now and love the new look and functions of Supernova. Thanks for your great work!
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r3vilo
r3vilo
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Looks good on screenshots. No more 90s #netscape look (I know it was a browser) and it seems now it'a usable for me 👍 To the older versions my brain always said no. ... I don't know if I will try it, because my web login works superb. Maybe when my actual #android client #k9mail will be renamed to #thunderbird then I could use it on desktop as well. Let's see.
#android #thunderbird #k9mail #netscape
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SGOTI
SGOTI
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I'm Happy to see the Thunderbird team has taken over support for the flatpak version on flathub. I asked about this in the past but no one replied. Will the flatpak become the primary source for users?
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@Yung_Lyun Can you explain what you mean by "primary source for users."

It's what WE will recommend as the default package for Linux users, if that's what you mean.

@SGOTI
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Petrus
Petrus
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it looks great and operates perfect. Downfall is that a lot of extensions are not ready yet which means that I'm not ready to use it on a day basis yet.
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Eduardomastodon
Eduardomastodon
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I'm excited to try out the new version of Thunderbird 115 as soon as possible.
And I know it is possible to downloaded it manually, but I prefer to wait to update it automatically.
Do you know when will it be happened?, today my TB show as the last version the 112.13.0
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@Eduardomastodon it's too early to predict when we'll turn on automatic updates. As with any major release, we sometimes become aware of corner cases after significant public testing. So, we'll wait until we’re confident no such issues exist. We’ll keep you posted right here though, promise.
@Eduardomastodon
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Andy Ayres
Andy Ayres
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I've just upgraded from 102 to 115. I've only been using it a few minutes, but I love it, and the theme I'd previously had installed works fine too, so it looks awesome.

Great job to everyone involved in making this happen.

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lese muir
lese muir
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congrats on the release and looking forward to further improvements in the next year or two~ blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…

Why We're Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch

"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.
Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)
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