thunderbird

[C]

Also offering  and supporting thunderbird, offers people choice.

Thudnerbrd is a proven platform, many people use thunder bird, a desktop 
email, client is expected with a desktop, many legacy business use it, 
it's also probably a better-to-see for responsible reasons thing to do 
than gmail.  It probably satisfies, more general use cases than the 
gmail application.

Thunderbird it`s open source and free to use and mod with local file, 
afaik, unlike the advertisement driven google, it`s probably more 
robust. and impartial to which services you use.  And that peopel are 
used to using it, and dont want to run the excersises of change, without 
there being proven benefits, absolutely, i have no reason to want for 
change right now.  if a user has been using thunderbird for their email 
client for 15 years, why would you expect a distro to suddenly want to 
force them to change their happy well served, regular routine, by having 
removed the programs from a distro?  and inpalce some application which 
proably doesnt support thier use cases as well.  that would probbly be a 
diservice for people, no?  especially if user have nothing to gain 
personally, but exercise for some interest party?  People use local copy 
email clients, even on mobile devices, and dont necessarily want to be 
involved with google, for any large variety of reasons.. so i guess.


I agree with another preson, who said gmail as wonderfuly when it 
premiered, as a cloud based web app, suddenly there was a big service 
provider offering, (was it a gig?) lots of cloud storage compared to 
other popular service providers.  and yes there is a gmail client.  but 
does it support cross platform to say, windows xp?  Google goes where 
told said to go by handshaking partners, imo.

Also, thunderbird doesn't collect and sell any information from you, as 
far as i know,.  because thunder bird has no information to give, afaik, 
except which ip`s originally downloaded an exe at some point.  So you 
might ask, whats more important to the distro management group, pushing 
an agenda, or making less hassle for users?  even if there i a duplicate 
application, if it`s causing less work for a good deal of users, 
continue to support it, i say, and make it easy to serve users, or cost 
users by removing it, i would suspect.  But of course, i don`t draw up 
plans for whats included in distro`sm so i cant say for certain, and I'm 
not sure why your asking in this channel...




On 15/03/2017 11:36 AM, Raymond House wrote:
> Hello all, I have been using ubuntu for many years now and I still 
> don't know what is the use of thunderbird.It duplicates my gmail 
> account,is slow,and seems complicated.I have been trying once more to 
> use it and it just seems to be a duplication of gmail (or any other 
> mail service).I'm probably missing something here but after many bouts 
> with it I still don't get it.I am wondering why it is always on all 
> the new distros? I suppose some people like it, I don't.This is one of 
> the rare things that bug me about ubuntu, because I would never use 
> any other OS.Thanks.
>
>

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