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		rnd0 on May 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report How..how can this be? Everyone is using web mail portals or custom enterprise solutions. There must be some explanation for this!

Macha on May 10, 2023 [–]

I recently changed employers, and one of the IT policy differences that I'm very happy with is that they do not disable IMAP, so I can use Thunderbird for my work email again.

I basically abandoned all hope of keeping on top of my email at my previous employer when they locked it down to gmail web UI only.

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