audacity VS Roundcube

They're looking into a new name as well, https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/issues/5

Here's a forked version with telemetry code removed (not mine, and I haven't read the diffs to verify, but it's all visible). But this is the beauty of open source, stuffs available you aren't required to follow new owners if they pull stuff like this: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/

Audacity will be fine and will continue to be at the top but I think we will see some new popular Forks/Competitors out there, such as this one8, that may or may not rise to the challenge of maintaining a complex application and be able to keep it up to date, work on bugs and issues and also continue to upgrade its feature set an UI. Its something I plan on paying attention to for the foreseeable future and hope this serves as a reminder, Much like OpenJDK, OpenOffice and XFree86 before them, to any other open source projects or Corporate Companies that buy up the Open Source Community Projects that they need to stay true to the community and the Open Source ethos.

It looks like everyone is using this fork: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity

for more context please see this exact comment: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/issues/48#iss...

TLDR: he’s taking a day off the internet after him and his closed ones getting thousands personal threats over phone, e-mail, etc. for not choosing “Sneedacity” name for the fork

It's a shame the fork doesn't use better commit messages than they do.

For example, "Fixes" is the entire commit message for https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/commit/d9f30b...

Commit messages like these do not inspire a lot of confidence. It would be a lot better (and easier to compare the original and the fork) if the commit message was something like "[Remove-Tracking] Remove SentryHelper.h and sentry ADD_EXCEPTION_CONTEXT usage"

I have tried several, and liked none of them. I'm currently on Geary, but it's lacking in functionality, and it has things like search results being a bit different upon each of my searches. Starred messages cannot be shown on top. Eyeroll.

I think Evolution and Thunderbird are the top contenders, and of the self-hosted ones, Roundcube.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary

https://roundcube.net/

The GitHub issue talking about this [1] is such a mess too. Maintainers closing the question with a vague non-answer, deleting comments left and right, etc. Sounds like someone stole the money and everyone is either complicit or too embarrassed to admit that it happened.

[1] https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/6030

https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/SQL/mysql.initial.sql Take a look at the tables an you get a idea, session for the app, users-table, contacts-table, dictionary, etc.

You could try a standalone email client like Mozilla's Thunderbird, or if you're experienced running a web server, you could check out something like Roundcube. I suppose you could even run it locally if you're familiar with PHP and/or Docker.

Like... https://roundcube.net/

What I really miss is a "web companion" for Thunderbird, basically something like https://roundcube.net/ or https://www.horde.org/apps/webmail, but a bit more powerful and with better UX. I'd like to use a Google Addressbook within such app, for example (there is a completely outdated plug-in for RoundCube). Another important thing would be powerful and fast search.

Alternatively if you want to keep what you have I wouldn't recommend using the SoGO even though it's the nicest and most modern option. Mainly because it's a full groupware client and will require a lot of configuration. Instead using Roundcube is probably your best option

Roundcube might fit the bill for you.

I'd do it with a local IMAP server in conjunction with a webmail client that connects to it. Dovecot is a fantastic and easy to use IMAP server. Webmail clients are a pretty personal thing, but the last time I used Roundcube it seemed pretty good.