Thunderbird's Devs: Rust Is Coming
Thunderbird's Devs: Rust Is Coming
Exclusive insights into Thunderbird's 2024 roadmaps - major update on the Global Message Database and Exchange support via Rust.
Planned work for the 2024 release of Thunderbird.: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap
Only mention of rust: "Standalone Rust component experiment of a notes implementation in Thunderbird"
Other planned features of note
- Microsoft exchange support
- updated database allowing for modern conversation view
I personally don't use Exchange but native support is a huge plus when recomending Thunderbird!
Android roadmap: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/android-roadmap
What I am honestly wishing for is
- native "Thunderbird Conversations" view for threads. Outlook has this and I guess ever other mail program, even K9Mail has native implementation.
- multi-level boolean Filters, example
(if title "spam1" or "invitation") and ((mail is older than x days) or (mail comes from this recipient)) then delete - better tablet/Laptop view in K9mail (to make it future-proof, for example a GrapheneOS tablet or laptop-like system
- dark mode in mail reader?
- fixing sensitive information sent through the autoconfiguration
- OS Native notifications for Calendar
And mails, which has no notifications at all
🦀
GTK/Qt theming when?
I’m ignorant. What does native exchange support mean? I know we can get outlook/hotmail etc but is this more of the enterprise support?
Here is my understanding of it -
Currently, TB uses POP3/IMAP protocol to access your Mailbox on Exchange Server.
Ideally, it should be done via MS EWS Web API [1][2] which TB currently doesn't support, but MS Office Outlook does.
Given that MS Exchange is heavily used in corporate/company setup, it[3] will put TB on par with Outlook in that regard.
[1] https://www.techtarget.com/searchwindowsserver/definition/Exchange-Web-Services-EWS
[2] https://www.envisionup.com/blog/pop3-imap-microsoft-exchange-email-platform-use/
Microsoft's email service isn't really following standards like IMAP/POP anymore and this breaks many apps. So they need to add support for their custom alternative system.