Mozilla to cease development of Thunderbird

Wayne · #1 7th July 2012, 01:36 AM

Will concentrate on stability.

http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/...ty-innovation/

maeniel · #2 7th July 2012, 02:37 AM

well that sucks, where to now?

***Dan*** · #3 7th July 2012, 03:08 AM

I'm not at all surprised. Just how far can you go with an email client? They just is what they is, and Thunderbird has plenty of window dressing already.

Wayne · #4 7th July 2012, 03:11 AM

Yup, it's not as if they can program it to pour beer

RupertPupkin · #5 7th July 2012, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by maeniel

where to now?

Alpine, the best email client ever created.

hadrons123 · #6 7th July 2012, 07:53 AM

Well I 'm not going to miss Thunderbird, never used any Email client for that matter. Happy with just the Firefox browser!

Wayne · #7 7th July 2012, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by hadrons123

Well I 'm not going to miss Thunderbird, never used any Email client for that matter. Happy with just the Firefox browser!

It's not going anywhere, I mean how many new features can you add to a mail client? As long as they keep quashing bugs and improving performance, I'll keep using it. KMail is long gone from my KDE install, what a piece of junk that is!

Personally, I can't stand any browser based clients, that's why I like Thunderbird, Choqok and other standalone apps.

exiledangel420 · #8 7th July 2012, 08:14 AM

Never used thunderbird thought it to be a waste of space. I prefer to send emails the old fashion way, called sending an email from an email account. Maybe I'm missing the point? Lol, anyways happy with just having firefox.

bigflopper2 · #9 7th July 2012, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by maeniel

where to now?

claws mail, it's lightweight and funtional (as thunderbird)

marriedto51 · #10 7th July 2012, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by exiledangel420

Never used thunderbird thought it to be a waste of space. I prefer to send emails the old fashion way, called sending an email from an email account. Maybe I'm missing the point? Lol, anyways happy with just having firefox.

I guess the old-fashioned way is

Code:

telnet smtp.host 25

Personally, much prefer a local mail client to a web-based service; I'll stick with Thunderbird because it does what it does well, and that suits me. But like anything else, at least we have quite a lot of choice to suit personal taste and requirements.

stevea · #11 7th July 2012, 01:28 PM

I use T'bird heavily and generally like it, except one rev back ~F10 came configures to pull alll the imap mail into the local folder (and 3GB later it got deleted and reconfigured). Has lots of 'just works' joy.

I've used evolution at times, but it suffers a lack of what-I'm-used-to-ness, and the last two times it had some peculiar problems creating moving IMAP folders. It doesn't actually delete imap mails unless offer sacrifices to the config gods - just puts a line through them. I little more awkward handing email crypto certs. If I had o deal w/ MS-Exchange I'd certainly use it. Don't care for the calendar-in-mail stuff, but ...

Quote:

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

Alpine, the best email client ever created.

Do you really use this ? I mean the curses screen stuff is totally retro and yes it supports MIME and has some external daemon(is that right) to access imap and pop3, but .. feels very antique. Seems heavily invested the the mbox format and delivery scheme. A newly minted antique - no ?

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Originally Posted by bigflopper2

claws mail, it's lightweight and funtional (as thunderbird)

Does look pretty nice. Still the everything-is-a-plugin approach has limitations. Wasn't able to get the html plugin working. No message crypto. I really don't care that t'bird uses an extra 40MB of disk, but the T'bird slowness and memory footprint aren't very nice.

***Dan*** · #12 7th July 2012, 01:38 PM

I was just about to post a tongue-in-cheek bit of sarcasm about the bad-old-days of Eudora on Win 3.1 ... but in the interest of not getting bit on the bum with a reality check, I did a quick search ... <..

..>

And as it turns out, our friends over at mozilla have indeed twiddled around with an open source version of Eudora.

Can't say I'm in any too big of a hurry to try it, though.

***DBelton*** · #13 7th July 2012, 02:14 PM

Oh geez, Dan... Next thing ya know, you are going to dig up slipknot and trumpet winsock

***Dan*** · #14 7th July 2012, 02:51 PM

Ya know ... I think I actually have those somewhere on an old support CD ... right along with Netscape Navigator ... and the infamous 650 fix scripts for Windows ME®.

RupertPupkin · #15 7th July 2012, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by stevea

Do you really use this ? I mean the curses screen stuff is totally retro and yes it supports MIME and has some external daemon(is that right) to access imap and pop3, but .. feels very antique.

Yes, I use Alpine every day as my regular mail client. It's so much faster and more powerful than GUI mail clients, and it does everything I need and is rock-solid stable. It has built-in support for IMAP and POP3 -- it doesn't use any external daemons. It's probably the best IMAP client, which is not surprising since one of its main developers was the guy who wrote the IMAP protocol. It does use mbox by default, but there are patches that enable maildir format, for example this one.

I'm on a number of mailing lists and have over 10k messages, which Alpine handles easily: