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How-To Geek wrote a great article about swapping Gmail's app for Thunderbird on Android: "It's a free, open-source, privacy-focused app, and it makes email feel like it used to." www.howtogeek.com/i-ditched-gma… Check out Thunderbird for Android! https://sohub.io/npmm #thunderbird #opensource

howtogeek.comI ditched Gmail for Thunderbird, and email feels perfectly boring againI prefer to keep my email simple.

22/5/26, 7:59 pm8 reposts30 likes

Joé McKen

@joemcken.net

22 May

Aye, it’s pretty good. Now if it would just fix the perennial bug where it outright refuses to load an email I just received for several minutes, to the point where I have time to literally load gmail.com and read that email there before it finally displays in Thunderbird … that would be great.

Thunderbird

@thunderbird.net

26 May

We're definitely trying to get to all these older and really annoying issues like this one! And sorry if you've already checked this article, but this is always a good place to start when Thunderbird is acting up: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

Leemstradamus

@leemstradamus.bsky.social

23 May

That one is annoying.

Leemstradamus

@leemstradamus.bsky.social

23 May

I've been using it through thick and thin since 2004 or 5.

Thunderbird

@thunderbird.net

26 May

Wow! Thanks for being around from the start!