Thunderbird's New Rust Integration: The Future of Email Clients?

As a Thunderbird user and Rust fan, I approve this integration. However I want to mention that Thunderbird is good as it is and actually don't think new features are needed. Only compatibility with other software or protocols could be better (which the Rust integration aims to improve). And to be honest, a way to disable some of the feature bloat would be preferable too, as I don't use lot of the additional stuff (but I make use of the RSS Feed reader).

I'm getting fed up about all those articles "rust x something: the future?", "I rewrote <cli tool> in rust it's now memory safe". I get the rust safeties and all, but that doesn't automatically make everything great, right ? You can still write shit code in any language that can RM -rf all your disk, or let security gaps here and there without intending to.

Integrate with GTK and Qt first

I honestly don't understand the love for Thunderbird... Tried it for a few months, loved it entirely until I discovered it was fucking losing days worth of emails

Lost, as in, nowhere to be found, no search or manual browse would find them, no way of restoring them. Had to go into OWA to see the missing emails

Then apparently I found out it's a known bug

I'm sorry but I would trade every bell and whistle for an email client that does not fucking lose your email

Thunderbird is my kind of bird

The Evolution email client is pretty great, and FairEmail for Android.

In the meantime, Evolution has had EWS support for years... no Rust involved.

Who cares ? What matters is the features and how fast the app is. Not what language was used to achieve that.

Alright who let the furries contribute to Thunderbird

How many people still use an email client? Genuine question.

I use either my phone or a web interface.