Betterbird
Community-enhanced fork of the Thunderbird email client
Betterbird is a fine-tuned fork of Mozilla Thunderbird that ships additional features and fixes ahead of upstream. It is a desktop email, calendar, and contacts client that connects to your own mail servers.
Key features
- Thunderbird-based client
- Extra features and fixes
- Email, calendar, and contacts
- Cross-platform
Strengths
- Released under the MPL-2.0 license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Written in Shell
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
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