The list of additions, changes and fixes look impressive! But I’m still worried about Thunderbird’s future and the planned rewrite. It’s a tough position to be in, (as if) attached at the hip to Firefox and to deal with the obsolescence of XUL extensions and other things that come part and parcel of using a good amount of code from Firefox.<p>I still believe it was a poor decision by Mozilla to cut off Thunderbird and float it as a community supported project. It now seems partially blessed by Mozilla, but isn’t how it was before that separation (AFAIK). The main thing I’ve felt as a huge missed opportunity with Thunderbird has been the lack of native Exchange calendar integration (no, none of the extensions, past and present, are close to even the experience of using Outlook web access for this purpose).<p>I’ll continue using Thunderbird for at least a few more years and will support the project financially, but I feel Outlook web access is slowly chipping away the need to use a desktop client in enterprise environments that are tied to Exchange or Office/Outlook 365.
If you are on verions<52, just know that this update won't be shown on the "About Thunderbird" page that checks for updates.<p>I was just in the same situation, and simply downloaded the installer from their main webpage [1] (after backing up my data in my profiles folder[2] and closing any running instances of Thunderbird), and it simply worked! I have to say, at least on Windows, the update looks much better, feels quite refreshing! Almost makes me want to actually check all the new emails :)<p>[1] = <a href="https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/</a>
[2] = <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_backing-up-a-profile" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderb...</a>
><i>Thunderbird version 60 is currently only offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as upgrade from Thunderbird version 52 or earlier.</i><p>Anyone have any idea about this affects Linux? I am using Mint, and in the past the suggestion has always been "update through your repository" not with a download...<p>Is it different this time for some reason?
Something overlooked, but which I have a lot of respect for is properly incrementing version numbers. It's rare to see semantic versioning properly work. Good job TB team.
I hope this will finally fix the "XML Parsing Error: Undefined entity"-bug that's been present for nearly a year now. Last I heard RedHat and the Thunderbird team were still bickering over whose bug it was or whether it was a packaging issue. It doesn't seem to be listed in the changelog, so I guess I shouldn't hold my breath.
> FIDO U2F support<p>Sweet, although IIRC several of the email providers with 2FA (Gmail and Outlook come to mind) have the option of providing app-passwords instead, which bypass the need for a 2FA token.
Anyone knows how to convert all mbox mailboxes to maildir? Just enabled "mail.store_conversion_enabled" but can't see any UI do make the conversion.<p>Update: found here - <a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3039509" rel="nofollow">http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3039509</a>
I downloaded this while it was in beta to see whether they'd fixed the scaling issues with mixed DPI setups in XWayland, or better yet, moved to native Wayland. Alas, this is not the case.
Thunderbird is a great email client but I don't trust it when it comes to calendars and contacts.<p>Syncing with CalDAV/CardDAV or Google Calendar/Contacts has always been problematic and apparently this is the very first version where you can edit single entries of an recurring calendar event. This does not help in building confidence in Thunderbird as a PIM.
I was hoping that Thunderbird would become a unified desktop equivalent of Mail/Calendar/ToDo of the apps we have on the mobile that can handle all the major providers (exchange, gmail, icloud, yahoo, pop, imap, etc...).<p>But it doesn't support a good chunk of these, which makes it difficult to adopt in my life.
Looks good but not seeing too many performance improvements unfortunately.<p>Which is a shame, I much prefer Thunderbird to Kmail UI wise, but when processing thousands of messages (deleting, moving, filtering, etc) it slows to a crawl then freezes. Kmail stays responsive.<p>This on 16 core 32 GB machine. But it doesn't look like the cores are used very effectively by TB as opposed to Kmail.<p>For normal usage though it's great. Maybe the next release will focus on performance optimization, in particular multicore.
I currently have Thunderbird installed from apt but pinned to an ancient version that allows Lightning (the calendar tool) to work. (Newer versions broke Lightning on Linux, although I can't recall the failure mode.) Maybe I'll try out Thunderbird 60 on my work computer to see if it works better now...<p>It's funny, I actually only use Thunderbird for its calendar these days, not for email.
Excellent work! I've been using Thundirbird for years now and enjoy all its features.<p>The only thing that it lacks is the native support of Tray, I just use the discontinued extension FireTray.<p>Anyway, just checked the new version and installed it, it looks fresh and nice, great job!
Has anyone had trouble accessing gmail from thunderbird in the last few weeks? Both my work and personal accounts have been intermittently syncing and I have no idea if this is a thunderbird problem or something i have to change in my gmail settings.
Anybody know if the line-wrapping has been fixed? In either this version or anything since <checks what I have> 52.9.1? The messed-up line-wrapping and quoting is easily my biggest problem with Thunderbird.
Gee I'm still on version 11. I tried updating once, got a ton of useless crap like calendars and shit and reverted back. Email is one of the few things that I want something very basic and crude.