Re: [gentoo-user] How to setup internal email sending

[ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com>]

Il 29/09/24 21:42, Dale ha scritto:
> ralfconn wrote:
>> Funny, [4] suggests going back to seamonkey for movemail support. I
>> once was a happy seamonkey user then switched to FF/TB because SM
>> seemed unmaintained, but from the website it looks like it's still
>> alive and kicking.
>>
>> raf
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741
>> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741#c35
>> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1802145
>> [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741#c81
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I think Seamonkey mostly gets bug fixes and updates so that it compiles
> with new tools and works with newer software.  I don't think it gets
> much else.  I am constantly running into sites that don't work right or
> even load with Seamonkey but work fine with Firefox.  Some may recall
> the massive Firefox rewrite a few years ago.  Once Firefox got the kinks
> worked out, it was a huge improvement.  Also, add-ons were redone as
> well.  Seamonkey needs to do the same because there are few add-ons that
> work with Seamonkey now.  You have to use the old add-ons, if you can
> find them, to use anything and almost none of them get updated.  As a
> example, I switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden.  I have to use Lastpass
> on any site I want to access that uses passwords because Bitwarden
> doesn't have a up to date add-on for Seamonkey.  Lastpass doesn't
> either.  It's still stuck on the last version since Firefox did it's
> rewrite and add-on change.  Yea, no security updates either.  Basically,
> the only reason I still have Lastpass, it was already installed.  If I
> were to remove Lastpass, I may not be able to get it back.  If it
> stopped working, it would be dead.  There is no update for it in
> Seamonkey.
> 
> In my opinion, Seamonkey is slowly dying unless enough people step up
> and update it to work like Firefox, including add-ons, and is coded in a
> way that websites work like Firefox does.  I mostly use it for the email
> part and would like to switch but I don't like Thunderbird to much.
> Links is my biggest problem.  If I click on a link, it wants to open a
> new instance of Firefox instead of asking me which instance I want to
> open in with a new tab.  As I type, I have four instances of Firefox
> open.  Each one had a different set of add-ons installed and are used
> for different tasks.  When I click on a link, I just need it to open in
> a new tab and ask me where to do it.
> 
> If anyone were to ask me if they should start using Seamonkey, I'd say
> no.  It worries me that at some point, it isn't even going to work well
> enough just for the email part.  That is about the only part of it that
> really works OK.  For web browsing, it's Firefox for 99% of things I do
> here.  As it is, I have to copy links in Seamonkey email and then paste
> the link in a new tab in Firefox on occasion.  It's annoying.
> 

Thanks Dale, great explanation (as usual!)

raf