benbucksch

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   by benbucksch 10mo ago

   (OFFTOPIC!) I would not recommend that with any email clients. Most are built with the assumption that you have around 3 to 8 accounts. UI, speed, and configuration may become an issue. Esp. the unified inbox in Thunderbird was slow in my p
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   by benbucksch 11mo ago

   > If you consider Mac and Windows sufficiently cross-platform No, that would make using the Linux desktop impossible, if you need that app.
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   by benbucksch 11mo ago

   Which cross-platform email+calendar GUI app existed back then, which could sync with these phones, and works with feature-partity on all of Windows, Mac and Linux, and was not built with web technologies?
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   by benbucksch 11mo ago

   Back then, did we have an app that can do email and calendar, and sync that with our phone? Did that app work on all operating systems that were in use at that time? With a simple install? On DOS, Amiga, Apple, Acorn, Unix? The same app, wi
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   by benbucksch 11mo ago

   > The right choice would be by Fastmail to cooperate directly with Evolution, Thunderbird, K-Mail, Apple Mail and help them were needed. Funny, I've actually been sitting literally right next to the Apple Mail developers when Fastma
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   by benbucksch 11mo ago

   Actually, Thunderbird is using the Mozilla browser as a runtime for the UI and a lot of its code, in exactly the same way as Electron apps are using Chrome and node.js. Even a lot of non-UI code in Thunderbird is implemented in JavaScript,