On 06/03/20 13:05, Michael Gerstacker via Tails-ux wrote:
> sajolida:
>
> I'm also curious how
> many of our users would have a good reason to use Thunderbird but
> do not
> because they never used an email client. It's one of the reasons why I
> like keeping Thunderbird in the list: it might teach some users that
> they could use it.
>
>
> I see it exactly the other way round.
> I helped so many relatives and other people setting up their email
> clients that i start to feel obsessed by them.
>
> I never used one and i think for most of the people i helped setting
> them up it would be much easier to use the webmail but they always
> used one so they think they need them to use emails.
>
> The more common those typical webmail providers like googlemail or gmx
> are getting the less you need these mail clients and i think if
> someone is doing some advanced stuff with emails then he will most
> likely find Thunderbird even if its not in the favorites.
I more compatible with the vision of sajolida, for my point of view.
I helped a lot of newbies people configuring thunderbird, because they
want use PGP and they can't by webmail, so find yet configured in Tails
with the addons is easier.
>
> Just a guess but i think the number of Thunderbird users is smaller
> than some years ago and slowly decreasing.
>
I think no.. but maybe we can find some data in the web to see :)
I'm happy to learn that Thunderbird wants add support for PGP encryption
in the summer 2020
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2019/10/thunderbird-enigmail-and-openpgp/
probably will increase the use?!
cheers
Ignifugo
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