Mozilla launches Thunderbird into the wild
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Mozilla, everyone’s favorite open source powerhouse, has decided to launch it’s Thunderbird mail client as a uniquely branded offering. Attempting to make a larger dent in the email game, Mozilla will establish Thunderbird as an autonomous company, offering a wide range of internet mail-based services, programs, and other services. By further fortifying the Thunderbird brand, Mozilla seems to think that consumers will flock towards its mail client in droves. Sound likely? With the email market bring so overly saturated, we think this is an uphill battle for them. It’s a good idea, but our "suggestion", would be to focus on increasing the stability of Firefox before heading out into uncharted territory. Just our two cents…
I find Firefox stable enough, but sure it needs continual development and features, so as long as they keep up support on all products I can’t see this being a problem.
If they can produce a good client with even more addons, especially against spam/junk email, then I’m sure it could “grow up” into something which could end up on corporate machines worldwide.
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In order to be successful with this they would need to make the e-mail client like the browser by creating a version for all mobile devices and platforms, including a java version. To be money, they would need to support Exchange push mail and support various HTTP mail types.
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I used to be all about trying to find out what program was the best email client for my email. Until Gmail came out, I just log in through firefox or internet explorer. I don’t need a program anymore.
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I think Firefox is pretty stable. Plus I love the fact that he has so many independently made plug-ins for it. I love it!!!
I use Thunderbird at work…so this is quite an interesting idea.
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Thunderbird is a great mail client. I especially like the enigmail extension which provides (almost) seamless gpg encryption and signatures.
That said, I switched to outlook 2k3 for my main machine because Tbird doesn’t have conduits to sync w/ a Blackberry or Windows Mobile device which is necessity for me. And to my knowledge there doesn’t seem to be any work going on to achieve this. (someone feel free to correct me if I’m uninformed)
Although not important to me, many people want MS exchange support but I don’t see that materializing ever unless MS gets involved w/ the development, which they won’t.
What’s really needed IMO, is an (GPL or) Open source Exchange replacement. and Tbird should be extended to work w/ that.
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This company will build a mail client that’s compatible with Gmail. Then, Google will buy this company.
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