It has been more than 10 years since I stopped using Windows as the main system. Now I have a laptop with the Microsoft system, because it is somewhat older, it did not cost me much (I would not get much by selling it) and so I can have the three most popular operating systems. Because I'm also an Apple user and I don't want to offer all my data to Google. I think that reading the above you can already suspect why i use thunderbird, Mozilla mail client, and not KDE's Kontact.
From beginning of the year, I live in love with KDE. I love its image, its options, its applications, its fluidity ... and now Everything works perfectly. Well, almost everything. Kontact combines mail, calendar, contacts, to-do lists and even an RSS reader in the same application, but currently two things are happening: there is a compatibility problem with, for example, Gmail accounts, and I use Gmail. On the other hand, as a KDE developer has told me, adding accounts is not the easiest thing in the world. Although they are two points that promise to improve in the future, they are not well in the present.
Thunderbird is compatible with Google and Apple calendars through extensions
Thunderbird is from Mozilla and, like your browser, has extensions available. This is an opinion piece, so I'm going to explain what I need and what Thunderbird offers me:
- Be able to add Gmail.
- Be able to add iCloud Mail.
- Support for iCloud calendars.
- Google Contacts compatibility.
- Ease of adding the accounts.
Sign in and enter
One of the points where Thunderbird is above the KDE software, although it is not exclusive to Mozilla's option, is that to add an email account just put the username and password. Although we can configure some points, it is enough to identify yourself so that our email account appears in the left panel. This is true with Gmail and iCloud Mail, as well as many other domains.
Compatible with iCloud calendars and reminders
As I have explained, I do not feel comfortable offering my data to a company that is known to use it for their benefit. This is a personal opinion that has led me to use iCloud and DuckDuckGo in most of my searches (not to mention the! Bang). Thunderbird also shows us our calendars, with local option or picking it up from external services. At first, it is not compatible with Google Calendar or with the iCloud calendar, but we can install three extensions that will allow us to use both calendars like iCloud reminders. The extensions are "Google Calendar Provider" for Google Calendar and "TbSync" + "Provider for CalDAV & CardDAV" to be able to add and manage both iCloud calendars and their reminders. In all cases, what we will obtain will be a calendar that we can consult and modify.
Thunderbird is good for me, but Kontact deserves a new chance
I never quite liked Thunderbird, partly because of its design. Thunderbird has improved a lot in that regard in recent versions and I can deal with it now, but as a KDE user I would rather be able to use Contact because it is much better integrated with the rest of the operating system. The KDE developer told me that are working on making adding accounts easier and it is said that in future versions they have corrected the bug with Gmail, but that will be in the future and the improvements will begin to arrive, at the earliest, next month.
Moreover, I know there are other options like Evolution, Mailspring (which started as nylas) or Geary, but neither of them I liked as much as the more modern Thunderbird, partly because I don't like their design. Also, being able to see all my calendars and reminders as I see them in Mozilla's proposal is something that attracts me a lot. And you? Do you stick with the Thunderbird that comes by default in Ubuntu or do you use a different mail client and calendars?
Hello. I have always used the browser to view and send emails, however it was a hassle to log in and out. That is why I was encouraged to use the Thunderbird mail client and the extensions to synchronize contacts, well to say, one is amazed.
For me thunderbird is always the first option. At the time I went through the same situation when I started using KDE, the mail manager was the only application in the entire system that from my point of view left much to be desired due to the problems it caused me with the GMAIL accounts and the bad they synchronize the mails.
Hi guys. I use the Gnome environment and Evolution mail servers. I am not a professional and my only claim is that everything is simple and the combination described meets these requirements. WHAT I decided for Evolution is that it syncs with Gnome Calendar.