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[Phil'll Fix IT Computer Services]

On 7/06/2024 6:35 am, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Thanks Tommy,

I took a look and as far as connecting to email addresses it works 
admirably, running it on a 2204 desktop, ill have to dig a bit deeper to 
be sure but at least there is an alternative . . .

Cheers Phil in Sunny Mildura
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