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Microsoft says it won't let you use Mail & Calendar app on Windows 11 (www.windowslatest.com)

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[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I moved to Mozilla Thunderbird long ago https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

[+] Psythik@lemmy.world -27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

People still use dedicated email clients? Why?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It works better for searching, it works offline, catch-all addresses just work with correct from address when replying, backup and archiving, can move mails from box to box without sending.

I also use roundcube, but only to read mails. If I want to reply to a catch-all mail I have to create an alias which is super tedious.

[–] jasonlearst@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

catch-all addresses just work with correct from address when replying

What do you mean by this? I’d like to be able to reply from a website@mydomain.com automatically.

For me Thunderbird makes me create an alias in order to reply to my catch all (*@mydomain.com). Did you have to configure something specifically?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

This is built into Thunderbird for a while now.

https://i.imgur.com/065RFJJ.png

Go to Account Settings
Enable Reply from this identity when delivery headers match
Enter your domain prefixed by a wildcard (*), for example *@yourdomain.com
Close/confirm all your changes
Open an email that was sent to one of your catch-all addresses and click the reply button.
The FROM field should be the catch-all address and not your general address.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I click on my "From" address and then select "Customize From Address...". I can then type anything I want up there. It's a little annoying when replying to an email chain with an alias, but not too many steps.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

See my other reply, you can automate this with a setting so you don't have to edit it manually every time.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 16 points 4 months ago

I have email addresses under Outlook (old personal account), Gmail (study provided email), Exchange (work) and Proton (main personal account). I also actively use the calendar feature in my client, which is sync'd up to my Nextcloud instance.

Just having it all under Thunderbird is so convenient and it feels more private. It's also an entirely consistent UI between accounts

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 13 points 4 months ago

Same reason anyone would use a dedicated provider-independent client instead of a proprietary web application locked into a single provider: less vendor lock-in, more local control, and so on.