Think email client and the obvious example is Mozilla’s Thunderbird. But whether you’re a T long-time Thunderbird user or looking for a new email client, you may find that Betterbird is – if you’ll excuse the pun – a better fit. That’s particularly true if you’re missing features that have quietly been dropped from Thunderbird in recent years.
Betterbird is a fork of Thunderbird, but it’s careful to stick closely to its parent in what Betterbird describes is a “soft fork”. It closely follows the Thunderbird ESR release schedules to ensure it remains as secure as Thunderbird itself and is built from the latest version of Thunderbird ESR before applying its own fixes, features and customisations.
All of Betterbird’s bug fixes are submitted upstream to allow Thunderbird to benefit from them if it wishes – and many do eventually make their way into the main program. To find out more about the Betterbird project in general, check out the box (below).