I’ve never heard of anyone using Thunderbird, but I hear about other Firefox users all the time.
I want a new email place. FUCK GMAIL 💥 FUCK GOOGLE! I had to use MS Office for work once, it was okay. Better than Gmail by a mile. But you seriously think I’m gonna use Microsoft? Well, what else is there? If Thunderbird is alright I think I should give it a try.
I also need to find a way to make a new not-gmail email domain. No idea where to go for that. Uh, does Thunderbird have anything?
Thunderbird is not a email provider, it’s email client. Gmail is both a email provider and they have a webclient you can (but don’t need to) use. You can use gmail with Thunderbird, I do that.
The question is what are you looking for a new email provider or a new email client?
From their post, I’d assume they’re looking for both.
Thunderbird will be releasing a mail service called Thundermail.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/
If you ending up needing a mail client like Thunderbird, consider Betterbird. It’s just a more-polished version of Thunderbird.
That’s incredible. I wonder how long it will take. Sounds like swapping to Thunderbird now on my existing email accounts is the move. I’ll get used to the client then create the new email once they launch theirs. Beats paying for my own domain or locking in to Proton/Tuta
Yeah, thunderbird is solid as an email client. Can’t really think of anything I need to do with email that it can’t do
it’s awesome, i’ve been using it for like 20(?) years.
the current beta version is great
I use it daily it works fine.
It’s been my daily client for probably 20 years now. My IMAP email account is around 80GB and it has no issues with that whatsoever.
Never understood how people use Outlook. It’s so obnoxious and slow by comparison. To obsessed with a “modern UI” or whatever I guess.
Quick filter is amazing, as is instantly archiving to year/month subdirectories.
I daily use it for work. It’s great.
I use it, and have for decades. It’s wonderful and it just keeps getting better. Buy you own domain name, and a mail-hotel… Then you are good to go.
We are using Thunderbird for AGES. We basically switched over from the original “Mozilla Mail” client that we had used before, and don’t ask what we used before that…
But we always had our own email addresses since the 1990s, and our own domain since the 2000s.
It still works very well and I dare say it is one of the best email clients we have today. For both Windows and Linux.
I use betterbird
Thunderbird is fine as a mail client. It doesn’t provide any email service, though.
For email service, Proton and Fastmail are top choices. Proton requires a “bridge” app in order to use clients like Thunderbird. On mobile, Proton only works via the Proton app.
As for clients, again, Thunderbird is fine. Betterbird is a better choice if you like Thunderbird but wish it weren’t so rough around the edges. If you are on Linux, I actually prefer Evolution to Betterbird/Thunderbird.
They will soon be an email service provider! https://thundermail.com/
I use Thunderbird for a decade, not sure maybe less, but it feels like a long time. I use Thunderbird exclusively for mail. But feels like this is the wrong place to ask, isn’t it?
Also Thunderbird is Mozilla’s most successful product. Meaning it is self sustainable.
it just works
thunderbird is great. no complaints here. good to have your own offline copy and also to use openpgp implementation.
