Mozilla To Shaft Thunderbird Next Week

[toyotabedzrock]

Why is everyone so pissy about this? They're reducing their paid employee number's to maintenance mode, not killing it off. Nothing about allowing mroe community input. They're tooling up for a rather exciting future for their OS whereby hopefully OSS can penetrate deeper in to the mobile world and not be a closed-hardware-kernel/open software hybrid like Android. As was said previously, TBird hasn't exactly been making huge leaps and bounds with progress of late, and I personally have pretty much migrated to GMail myself. This is what the majority have peoplae have done. I still value a client, but Google have that covered too and allow you to access all your shit through TBird. How nice of them. It also just works with just about everything I know of with numerous email accounts and in low bandwidth modes, too.

Won't they need a email client for their mobile OS?

[Melcar]

Well this blows ass. Seriously, what the hell. I guess I need to find something else to use. And I just convinced the office to use TB. Well shit.

[smitty3268]

Community support should be just fine to port current TB onto new libs as needed.

The only thing Mozilla devs would have been needed for is if they intended to make it into a serious corporate mail suite - by adding a calendar, better Exchange integration, etc. And personally i don't really need anything the current version doesn't already provide.

[1c3d0g]

Well this blows ass. Seriously, what the hell. I guess I need to find something else to use. And I just convinced the office to use TB. Well shit.

We must maintain calmness in the midst of perceived chaos. Relevant:

http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2012/07/06...r-thunderbird/

So you can sleep well tonight knowing Thunderbird won't be left abandoned anytime soon.

[MrRtd]

I have been using Thunderbird for years, and it's a great piece of software. Why they never integrated the lightning calendar add-on is beyond my comprehension. I can only compare Thunderbird to Outlook on Windows, and Kmail/Kontact on Linux, and Outlook to me isn't any better than Thunderbird, and Thunderbird is far superior than kmail for stability and ease of configuration.

[RealNC]

People have switched to Chrome by the masses, and the Firefox OS doesn't serve any real purpose. Without TB, Mozilla doesn't have anything left. They're throwing out the only thing that's actually still useful. How smart of them.

[smitty3268]

People have switched to Chrome by the masses, and the Firefox OS doesn't serve any real purpose. Without TB, Mozilla doesn't have anything left. They're throwing out the only thing that's actually still useful. How smart of them.

TB's popularity is nowhere near Firefox's, that's crazy talk.

[Xake]

Internet message access protocol (IMAP).

Still few IMAP-clients (and servers as well) supports setting up server-side filters, so you may have to mirror your filtering rules on every computer you connect from.

[m_gol]

I don't think I'll ever use webmail. Not until I'm provided a way to backup my email onto hard drive and restore whenever I want.

That's exactly why, though I use webmail on a daily basis, I regularly open Thunderbird to back everything up using IMAP. The best of both worlds.

[m_gol]

That's because you are using Adblock to hide the really huge advertisement in the top post.

You're wrong.