Mozilla Clipping Thunderbird's Wings

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 02:30 PM

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#2 stouto

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 04:37 PM

Should I start looking for another email program, if so, which one?

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 05:02 PM

stouto, on 06 July 2012 - 04:37 PM, said:

Should I start looking for another email program, if so, which one?

I just use GMail on the web. No desktop software needed, can access it from everywhere, has an offline mode.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 05:53 PM

stouto, on 06 July 2012 - 04:37 PM, said:

Should I start looking for another email program, if so, which one?

You can shift to The Bat which has been around since 90s. Its home edition is free. Another good one is IncrediMail which is also free.
But I am sure open source community would soon take care of Thunderbird development. So nothing to worry.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 06:08 PM

This is sad. Offline email will always be necessary in business. Conceding the market to Outlook just means that Outlook will follow IE's path when there was no real competition (i.e., the horror of IE6). It also makes no sense as it is built using the Firefox base, and is the default email program for most of the most popular Linux distros. They could end up hurting Firefox on Linux if TBird gets kicked out; Chromium is definitely a challenger. I use TBird (and FF) exclusively on my PC's, and hope that someone (Apache? The Document Foundation?) will take it and run.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 06:56 PM

ptincknell, on 06 July 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:

With Gmail, you don't need to download software, the interface is better than most software and websites, and there is offline mail. And you can even use Gmail if you have a non-Gmail account. Problem solved.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 06:57 PM

stouto, on 06 July 2012 - 04:37 PM, said:

Should I start looking for another email program, if so, which one?

As I said in another reply, with Gmail, you don't need to download software, the interface is better than most software and websites, and there is offline mail. And you can even use Gmail if you have a non-Gmail account. Problem solved.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 05:54 AM

One of the few problems with open source software, here one minute, gone the next.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 06:13 AM

JackSimon, on 07 July 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:

One of the few problems with open source software, here one minute, gone the next.

That's a premature. One of the great things about OpenSource is that one company sponsors it today, leaves it tomorrow and another picks it up and perhaps makes it ten times better. Look at Netscape. Never did very well. But as FireFox it challenged Microsoft and opened the door to alternative browsers at a time when Microsoft owned the browser market. Now alternative browsers are very successful. Web creators are not designing for just IE. They have Chrome and FF in mind.

OpenSource gave us the foundations for WebKit. OpenSource gave us OpenOffice and challenged Microsoft to lower their prices for Office suite or lose customers to a free alternative.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 10:57 AM

Do you guys read at all? The development track that it WAS on is now being put to rest, but it will still be updated for security and stability and shifted towards community-driven development. Thunderbird is neither dead nor dying. And if it ever did, I'm sure it would soon be resurrected as Phoenix. Sorry. That joke was just sitting there.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 11:08 AM

I have several gmail and aol accounts. I don't like having to remember passwords and go to two different sites with ads and flash all over just to check email. I don't like sharing my email cache with my browsing cache, either. I also have no need to access from other locations (mobile). So I love Thunderbird as an alternative. It's not perfect, but nothing is.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 01:16 PM

Stick a fork in Thunderbird, it's a dead man waliking.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 02:07 PM

HankRearden, on 07 July 2012 - 06:13 AM, said:

JackSimon, on 07 July 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:

One of the few problems with open source software, here one minute, gone the next.

Look at Netscape. Never did very well. But as FireFox it challenged Microsoft and opened the door to alternative browsers at a time when Microsoft owned the browser market.

Ah Youth! I remember an interview done with Marc Andreessen in I believe PC World back around 1997 or 98. Marc was floating around in a swimming pool during the interview. He was asked if he was worried about Micro$ofts IE diminishing Netscape's star. Marc replied that with Netscape being 87% of the browser industry, he wasn't the least bit worried. Netscape was THE core and innovator of browsers back then. I agree with those who say that Thunderbird will most likely improve through this change.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 04:52 PM

They're 'not' supporting TB anymore and pulling off staff for other projects is a bad, bad signal. I don't use TB, but was always curious to try it. Now, I won't bother investing time into it and just stick with my G-Mail.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 11:25 PM

TB is fine today, the email standards that TB works with are about as stable as you can get. Unless email itself changes form significantly, then current versions of TB will remain perfectly fine.

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Posted 07 July 2012 - 11:27 PM

TB is fine today, the email standards that TB works with are about as stable as you can get. Unless email itself changes form significantly, then current versions of TB will remain perfectly fine.