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Johan Bové

A love note to e-mail and e-mail readers

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Thank you E-mail for delivering me the important things I need to know about. Enjoying the fact that you let me sip through you on my own pace and time and allowing me to see everything in a time organized manner. Thank you for not engulfing me with unnecessary images and self-starting video advertisements. Thank you for giving me a way to reply and sort my messages. Thank you also for allowing me to filter my messages based upon my own criteria. Also a big thank you (with imap and SMTP) for allowing me to get to my messages on different devices and having them all synchronize the folders. Thank you also for allowing to sign and send secure email with Pretty Good Privacy. I forgive you for the occasional unexpected message from a far - away land as I can simply toss these in the junk folder. Thank you for keeping track of you over many years and after changing many different devices and even accounts. I hope we can enjoy many years together more.

Yours sincerely,

A happy Thunderbird E-mail user.

Johan Bové

Thanks to OpenKeyChain, FairEmail, Thunderbird, and Keybase.io, I'm only sending PGP signed Emails out. It feels like I just upped a level in terms of online representation.

Johan Bové

Thanks. I had almost forgotten about that site. What I like about getting the news in my mailbox is how Thunderbird nicely renders these messages. Very to the point.

Johan Bové

Enjoying the New York Times' "Morning Briefing" daily newsletter, especially without images, as it appears in the Thunderbird email client. No ads, no distractions. Just the news headlines, served in a digestible way.

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Made a new "retention policy" for the emails in my "newsletters" folder of my e-mail inbox to delete messages older than sixty days. I ran Thunderbird's "compact" command on the folder and went from 484 unread messages to 167. I might have to review my newsletter subscriptions.

Johan Bové

A couple of months I've gone "Indie" with most of my software setup. Using as my ONLY browser and for reading email and keeping a calendar. The calendar and contacts server is self-hosted and syncs with Sabre's . My social-media platform and CMS is - which I'm also actively supporting. The community is fantastic!