The old thunderbird mail list

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 4:29 PM Phil <phil at philfixit.com.au> wrote:

>
> On 5/6/24 22:59, Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> > As for the people responsible for programming the Thunderbird email
> > application, their increasing contempt for users, is shown by the
> > changes that they keep imposing, to make it increasingly less
> > user-friendly
> >
> agreed  :(
>

I have been encouraged by what I had been reading about Betterbird, a
compatible fork of Thunderbird

https://www.betterbird.eu/

HOWEVER, I have only just (this hour) been able to get Betterbird to
recognize the existing settings files for my (now snap packaged in 24.04)
existing Thunderbird installation. I was inspired to try again because of
this thread...

The Ubuntu upgrade from 23.10 to 24.04 kept my existing settings files, but
for some reason Betterbird in a Flatpak has trouble seeing the existing
directory.

Here's what (I think) I did that seems to have worked (leaving out all my
false starts)...

1) I installed Betterbird via flatpak, and confirmed it runs.

2) I created a symbolic link to the ~/.thunderbird directory in place of
the .thunderbird directory in
~/var/app/eu.betterbird.Betterbird/

3) I checked to make sure the permissions looked right for the .thunderbird
link and the source folder (I checked user and group access)

4) THEN I started betterbird in a terminal with the -p (choose profile) flag

$ flatpak run eu.betterbird.Betterbird -p

5) I chose (and renamed from "default" to reduce confusion) my Thunderbird
profile, and opened Betterbird.

6) I pinned a launcher for the app while the app icon was in the tray.

Since I have only JUST NOW gotten it to work with my Thunderbird profile
(after beating my head on it for a bit) I cannot report any problems. I
just made a backup copy of the .thunderbird directory.....! Time to give it
a thorough try.
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