Had never heard of this before today. Anyone tried it?
What you’re looking for is Dove:
Dove is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability.
Librewolf is a privacy oriented fork of Firefox, it grabs some setting from arkenfox. Betterbird is not a privacy oriented fork of Thunderbird as far as I remember. When I tried it the only thing I was attracted to was its tray support, but as I use non DE compositors, so far wayfire, labwc and sway (tabbed layout), and as there’s currently a Firefox bug, I didn’t see any reason to keep trying it, and now on sway with tabbed layout I see no reason for a tray any ways…
Interesting.
Did you read their website/faq? It very clearly tells me that Betterbird has a very different focus than LibreWolf. It’s not about Privacy, it’s about fixing bugs.
BetterBird is great. I got it running via Birdtray under Cinnamon with some minor tinkering in the birdtray-config.json file.
How did you get it working? I am using the latest Mint with Cinnamon, Betterbird flatpak with Birdtray flatpak. I setup the directory for my two email inboxes and it displays the joint counter on BT icon. However whenever I open BT it opens BB and gives an error and keeps BB open over anything else.
birdtray-config.json
Edit the following strings:
"advanced/tbcmdline": [
"/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn",
"--host",
"flatpak",
"run",
"--branch=stable",
"--arch=x86_64",
"--command=betterbird",
"--file-forwarding",
"eu.betterbird.Betterbird",
"@@u",
"%u",
"@@"
],
"advanced/tbprocessname": "betterbird",
"advanced/tbwindowmatch": "Betterbird",
In Birdtray under Advanced - Thunderbird command line - call Betterbird as follows:
/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn --host flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=betterbird --file-forwarding eu.betterbird.Betterbird @@u %u @@
Hopefully we can get a Betterbird mobile app one day.
Try FairEmail. It’s the closest thing I’ve found.
I was looking into k-9 mail and it seemed decent
What stuff did you want to have in a mobile app?
The email servers themselves are separate (ex. Gmail, your school email server, work email server, etc.).
Thunderbird / K9 are clients that let you access the email on your device
So they should all be compatible with each other
