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A clip from the Artemis II broadcast with one visualization of the spacecraft and a smaller box showing Mission Control. The text at the top and bottom reads "Going to Need You to Remote In and Install Thunderbird"

2026-04-03 18:41:41

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

thunderbird@mastodon.online

"Houston, we have a solution."

#Thunderbird #ArtemisII

2026-04-03 18:43:13

gabegie

gabegie@mastodon.social

@thunderbird #meshcore

2026-04-03 18:48:51

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox "Redmond, we have a problem."

2026-04-03 19:23:34

Milly

aanee@mastodon.online

@thunderbird "App not authorized" 😑

2026-04-03 19:43:37

Sean Lynch

SeanPLynch@mastodon.social

@thunderbird

Pine

2026-04-03 20:08:11

Quentin

quentind@framapiaf.org

@thunderbird
Ping @legalsylvain ;)

2026-04-03 20:43:45

Rudimentary Pancake Assembler

bill88t@c.im

@thunderbird I'd bet mone it's running babyian on PowerPC 64-bit, so it wouldn't even be difficult.

2026-04-03 21:16:08

Portlandia

portlandia999@mastodon.social

@thunderbird

More like replacing one problem with another. My #thunderbird was taking 10 seconds to handshake and read my outlook mail. I switched to #betterbird and that problem disappeared.

If you look at all the outstanding bug requests on #tbird, you'll see why #Mozilla products are no longer the browser/email client of choice.

2026-04-04 14:09:46

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Portlandia

you'll see why #Mozilla products are no longer the browser/email client of choice

Speak for yourself 😉

A show handshake can be caused by sooo many different things, and without having even a hint of what's causing it, you can't simply blame it on TB.

Start by watching what's happening on the network: big change that TB is waiting for packets from the server.

2026-04-04 18:12:35

Portlandia

portlandia999@mastodon.social

@hans

I may not have noted in my original post, but I have tried both TB and BB many times over several weeks including TB updates and in all instances TB did not work and BB did.

So I think it's a fair assumption that the problem is with TB. They must have made a change in their fork that BB did not.

And as I said, if I keep trying TB updates it will probably be fixed at some point and I can continue using TB then.

2026-04-05 18:04:33

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Portlandia

So I think it's a fair assumption that the problem is with TB.

Not sure if I agree with that. "Assumption is the brother of all fuckups", to use a quote from "Lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels".

Again, check what's happening on the network. I have enough experience with Microsoft and their dealing with competing software to suspect that they could have implemented something in Exchange to make things to bad when the client turns out to be Thunderbird. Would be a step they have taken countless times in the past 3 decades...

Check for example how they have introduced a slightly different and thereby incompatible "LOGIN" mechanism in SASL and forced out every mail client that only used the agreed-upon version.

Again, assumption is dangerous, you first need to know in which part of the entire chain the problem is.

2026-04-03 21:18:51

Jan-Theo Wassink

jantheowassink@chaos.social

@thunderbird "Thunderbirds are Go"

2026-04-03 21:40:08

:loup: Shalien

shalien@projetretro.io

@thunderbird Ah someone finally updated it ?

2026-04-03 21:56:42

Pixel Dunn

hacknorris@mstdn.social

@thunderbird at least they'd had a todo list app builtin… and some chat to friends (like me) too…

2026-04-03 22:15:21

Stevez

theron29@witter.cz

@thunderbird For Exchange server backend you definitely want to use #Evolution 😉

2026-04-04 00:39:21

Killa Koala

dshan@mastodon.au

@thunderbird That's pretty much what I said to myself when I heard the astronaut say that on NASA's live feed. 🤣

2026-04-04 02:15:04

luca

luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place

@thunderbird Honestly, after being user and supporter, this is the second application I'm planning to remove, after I cleaned my systems from Firefox 148 onward, after being a user for twenty years.
The trigger would be again any unwanted AI intrusion: let's see how it goes.

2026-04-07 13:44:55

Net Gremlin 🚴🏻 🐧 🇩🇪 🇪🇺

net_gremlin@mastodon.ip6.li

@thunderbird Due to very limited Internet resources in running space operations Mutt may be a better solution: http://www.mutt.org/ - Thunderbird install package is also a fat beast.