ThunderCast #6: Office Hours Q&A

04/04/24 • 35 min

The Thunderbird team has resumed our monthly Community Office Hours sessions, and the most recent was an open forum Q&A that focused largely on K-9 Mail and Thunderbird for Android. We also answered some of your questions about Thunderbird for Desktop, including Exchange support (it's coming)! Here's a lightly edited version of that session for you to listen to.

If you have questions for us to answer in a future Office Hours sessions, just send an email to [email protected].

00:00 Intro
02:00 Exchange Support for Android?
03:22 Add-ons For Android?
06:30 Upgrade Path From K-9 Mail?
12:06 Android: CalDAV and CardDAV?
16:11 Mozilla Sync & Thunderbird for Android?
22:06 Exchange Support on Desktop?
24:35 Proper Threaded & Conversations View?
30:55 Full Sender Name Column?
33:03 What About Thunderbird Webmail?

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Software & Articles We Mentioned:

Cherrytree
draw.io
Synergy
The Pomodoro Technique
Working on Distributed Teams at Mozilla
Contribute To Thunderbird Without Knowing How To Code
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(01:05) - Meet Heather
(02:10) - Heather’s Origin Story
(04:40) - Your notes can help everyone!
(06:38) - Meet Chris
(07:37) - Chris’s Origin Story
(11:30) - Geeking out
(20:45) - Thunderbird 115 Updates & Flatpak
(22:04) - Thunderbird Send explainer
(31:48) - Remote Work Tips & Tricks
(51:44) - Community Voice: Tip from Pedro
(55:53) - Community Voice: Tip from Mike
(58:32) - Outro

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ThunderCast - ThunderCast #6: Office Hours Q&A

Transcript

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Hey, Thunderbird family. This is Jason. If you're listening to this, you've no doubt realized that our podcast is on a bit of a hiatus. We're still figuring out really the best way to bring it back and the most effective format to use. But to keep the feet alive, here is a lightly edited version of our recent community office hour session. Most of the questions that we answered here were about Thunderbird for Android, as well as Exchange Support, whi