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 [[https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/|Thunderbird]] is a free, open source e-mail manager.   [[https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/|Thunderbird]] is a free, open source e-mail manager.  
  
-**Why use Thunderbird over just logging into gmail or whatever?** It has extra features for compiling RSS feeds, and also IRC chat.  I am interested in those extra features so I'm not so reliant on google, discord, and siloed social medias.  I also wish to separate my e-mails (which is mostly work stuff) from my browser habits (which is mostly "fun" stuff like social media and watching videos).  And I want to see all my emails from all my inboxes at once.+**Why use Thunderbird over just logging into gmail or whatever?** It has extra features for compiling RSS feeds, and also IRC chat.  I am interested in those extra features so I'm not so reliant on google, discord, and siloed social medias, all of which are trying to push stupid LLM genAI shit on me.  I also wish to separate my e-mails (which is mostly work stuff) from my browser habits (which is mostly "fun" stuff like social media and watching videos).  And I want to see all my emails from all my inboxes at once.
  
 I'm using a fork called [[https://betterbird.eu/|Betterbird]], mostly so I can have fun rainbow indicators for my emails.  And cuz the vanilla Thunderbird lags a lot on my computer with my 50000 emails.  For the purposes of this page, //Betterbird// and //Thunderbird// are the same thing and I'll be referring the program as Thunderbird mostly. I'm using a fork called [[https://betterbird.eu/|Betterbird]], mostly so I can have fun rainbow indicators for my emails.  And cuz the vanilla Thunderbird lags a lot on my computer with my 50000 emails.  For the purposes of this page, //Betterbird// and //Thunderbird// are the same thing and I'll be referring the program as Thunderbird mostly.