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I would pay if it were something amazing (i.e. not just a bit faster than Thunderbird), probably around $20. I don't spend that much time on email, but I hate the small annoyances of Thunderbird (when I delete messages a new, empty one appears that can't be removed, it has no tray icon, it starts up maximized and I have to close it every time, it has no decent "send later" functionality, etc).

These are all things that Thunderbird doesn't get right. Also, search is completely broken.



> it has no tray icon

I've got a tray icon in Gnome Shell (and I had one when I was using Gnome 2), using the FireTray extension, and there is also a Gnome Integration extension that provides a tray icon, in theory, but it doesn't work for me.


I just installed FireTray, it looks better than what I used to use, thanks!


> it has no tray icon, it starts up maximized and I have to close it every time, it has no decent "send later" functionality

All of this can be solved by installing addons.


I have, obviously, and it didn't help. Got any recommendations?


It sounds like your "what to do when I mark a mesdsage for deletion" setting is wrong.

What is a tray icon? Is that a windows thing?


It is a Windows thing. I'm on Ubuntu, though, with Gnome 2, and it has one too. They all have one, really.


The little icon biff-like that shows if you have new mail? I always thought it was fairly useless. One or two active mailing list subscriptions and the icon was always lit up.

PS: What is the signifigance of the italicized is?


It's more like "the little icon biff-like that prevents Thunderbird from taking up space on your alt+tab bar when running".

The "is" was just emphasis.


systray (system tray)

Exists in OS X, Windows, (both since their nascent editions) and Gnome since at least 2 if not 1, and KDE since at least version 2 as well.

Usually shoved off to the right as a cluster of icons designed for some core verbiage and notifications.


'notification area' is a little bit more generic a label. If your OS has a global status/taskbar of any kind, it's usually on the right hand side of it.


Operating system of choice? Is it worth more to you if it is cross-platform?

Edit: I saw you use Ubuntu. I happen to use Ubuntu as well. Does cross-platform matter to you?

Edit2: Got it, cross-platform doesn't matter. Cool, thanks for the responses!


I use Linux, I don't really care about the other OSes, I never use them.




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