I'm rather surprised by the comments responding to this. A bit by the comment itself.
Why I'm surprised is... well... this is HN. We know that a bug like this is very rare, right? I mean otherwise who would ever use TB, right? But if it's rare, it's really hard to track down. There years of comments without people including system information. The reproduction steps themselves are "sometimes." It's HN, so we can assume users here program, right? How would you solve this use?
FWIW, I've used TB on Linux and OSX for years and never faced an issue like this. The only one I've faced is sometimes not being able to connect to the server and having to resend an email.
On the other hand, when using Apple Mail:
- messages routinely doesn't show me messages I can see in TB.
- Frequently sending messages from my phone doesn't go through or ends up double sending.
- Searching will pull up emails from a year ago, prioritizing them over the email I got this week and was actually looking for (e.g. searching foo@bar.com).
- I can't even tag emails!?!?
- Do filters even work? Holy cow how do people live without filters!? How do you deal with spam? How do you deal with all those noisy needless messages and newsletter type of stuff that won't let you unsubscribe or comes from domains or addresses you can't block because emails you need come from the same addresses?
- It straight up renders PDFs inline with no warning, helping spammers.
- There's no folders and everything is just all jumbled together in a mess. How does anyone find anything?
Idk, this is an annoying problem but I'd be surprised if I lost all my emails. I can recover deleted emails in Gmail and Outlook. Annoying, but recovering these (go to trash, click "restore") is far less time than what I'm saving on a weekly basis with TB.
I know these problems aren't on all platforms but TB IME has saved me a ton of time compared to using Gmail, Outlook, or Apple Mail. Hell, fucking Neomutt is a better experience than those three, which is insane. Trying to use them is like trying to use the internet without an ad blocker. How are we so bad at email?
Why I'm surprised is... well... this is HN. We know that a bug like this is very rare, right? I mean otherwise who would ever use TB, right? But if it's rare, it's really hard to track down. There years of comments without people including system information. The reproduction steps themselves are "sometimes." It's HN, so we can assume users here program, right? How would you solve this use?
FWIW, I've used TB on Linux and OSX for years and never faced an issue like this. The only one I've faced is sometimes not being able to connect to the server and having to resend an email.
On the other hand, when using Apple Mail:
Idk, this is an annoying problem but I'd be surprised if I lost all my emails. I can recover deleted emails in Gmail and Outlook. Annoying, but recovering these (go to trash, click "restore") is far less time than what I'm saving on a weekly basis with TB.I know these problems aren't on all platforms but TB IME has saved me a ton of time compared to using Gmail, Outlook, or Apple Mail. Hell, fucking Neomutt is a better experience than those three, which is insane. Trying to use them is like trying to use the internet without an ad blocker. How are we so bad at email?