Betterbird, a soft fork of Thunderbird, is now available in the omniverse repository (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Omniverse).
It was built from source on - and for - Artix Linux.
According to its home page (https://www.betterbird.eu/index.html):
Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will.
Betterbird is better than Thunderbird in three ways: It contains new features exclusive to Betterbird, it contains bug fixes exclusive to Betterbird and it contains fixes that Thunderbird may ship at a later stage. Please refer to this feature table (https://www.betterbird.eu/index.html#featuretable) for examples. This should give you an impression of where the project is headed. More information on why we're doing the project can be found at the FAQ (https://www.betterbird.eu/faq/index.html).
It is possible to install the same dot release of Thunderbird in parallel and switch between Betterbird and Thunderbird on the same profile without problems and without needing the -allow-downgrade command line switch.To be able to select an existing profile run command:
betterbird -p
The usual advice and disclaimer applies; always make sure to have a recent and valid backup.
artist
What's the word? BetterBird!
Betterbird is indeed better. I've been using it for a few months now. The only downside it's got at the moment is lack of translations.
Thanks Artist for the awesome software. You rock!
What a shame, painting a software project in political gradients.
Does anyone know if Betterbird supports global search? I have multiple mailboxes in my Thunderbird environment and it's a pain to sort through all of them to search for that lost email.
I know this isn't the Betterbird forum, but I figured I'd ask my Artix peeps since they don't have a forum.
It supports it. But so does Thunderbird I thought ?
Doesn't work though. I just sent a message containing "zzzvvvbbbmmm" from one account to another.
Searching for "zzzvvvbbbmmm" returned nothing.
I've suspected it's been borked for a while though.
So I just renamed this file "global-messages-db.sqlite" to .bak on advice from a web search.
It was 784 MB of uselessness.
I'll try again once it's rebuilt. Growing as I type.
Edit:
I ended up with a 90% smaller index but the Global search still doesn't work.