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20 years ago today, Thunderbird hatched from its shell and spread its wings! To our incredible community of users, contributors, and supporters - thank you for helping us get here. We couldn’t have done it without you. Here’s to 20 more - and beyond!

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Celebrating 20 Years of Thunderbird: Independence, Innovation and Community  - The Thunderbird Blog

Today we're celebrating 20 years of Thunderbird. Such an important birthday has us look back on our past and imagine a bright, long future.
Natalie Ivanova (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Orlando 🇲🇽 :linux: :neovim: ⁂
Orlando 🇲🇽 :linux: :neovim: ⁂
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congrats, I just wish the snap version wasn't so inestable in Ubuntu (24.04) . I've installed thrice, then get access permission issues, and eventually got rid of it, and used #Evolution email suite...
#evolution
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David Ward
David Ward
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@DavidGoldfield Been using Thunderbird for the majority of the 20 years Prior to that, I think it was communicator. From Netscape.
@David Goldfield
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Aliaksandr, the last Dzik
Aliaksandr, the last Dzik
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Mhm. It took 20 years to devolve into soy UI, dump official distribution through apt (becoming the only reason to keep snapd on Ubuntu) and start shitting in user's downloads folder with temporary files.
This is not Thunderbird which I used to know and love.
At least teach it to delete its tmp folder in ~/Downloads on closure or something. It behaves like geezer which still tries to hit on female teenagers while shitting himself otherwise.
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Axel
Axel
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I remember when I first tried Thunderbird back in the 2000's as a teenager. I couldn't figure out how to use it at all.

Then a decade later I gave it another go alongside my return to Firefox, and maybe I got smarter or something, because it was really no trouble at all.

I think Thunderbird is great software, and I donate because I love using it. The transformation of K-9 to Thunderbird Android has been well done. Thank you to everyone who works on Thunderbird.

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@CyborgZeta thank you so much for sharing your story! We're so glad you came back when you were older and wiser - and thank you so much for being a donor too! 💙 💙
@Axel
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Till Kamppeter
Till Kamppeter
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Congratulations from a long-term user! I am using Thunderbird already for more than 20 years, already when it was the mail module of Netscape Communicator.
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@banaanihillo You can donate direct from our home page! Just click the heart icon on the upper right hand side: thunderbird.net/

Thunderbird — Free Your Inbox.

Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
Thunderbird
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