Mozilla to cease development of Thunderbird

[billybob linux]

From the article:

Much of Mozilla’s leadership — including that of the Thunderbird team — has come to the conclusion that on-going stability is the most important thing, and that continued innovation in Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla’s product efforts.

As others have pretty much said already, how many bells n whistles does an e-mail client really need and how far can you continue to innovate . Lets face it, some software just doesn't have the WOW factor and e-mail clients come into that category, so,yeah, on-going stability seems like a good plan for Tbird given it's current stage of development.

[nonamedotc]

I personally find having an email client so convenient .... As long as they are providing bug fixes, I am happy!

[flyingfsck]

Well, all programs grow until they can send email...

[YeOK]

I use Thunderbird, so this is a little worrying but if I'm totally honest, Thunderbird has not changed much since I started using it. As long as its secure, it will be fine.

[CronoCloud]

Originally Posted by Wayne

I mean how many new features can you add to a mail client?

Oh I don't know....built in GnuPG support? Thunderbird doesn't have it and last I checked Enigmail didn't work on non-x86 Linuxes.

Originally Posted by bigflopper2

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

That's what I've used for years, though I did use Thunderbird before it.

CronoCloud

[nonamedotc]

Ooh! claws mail is quite nice ! Tried it for the first time ....

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Ooh! claws mail is quite nice ! Tried it for the first time ....

It doesn't score very high in this review but KMail is right at the bottom, where it should be!

http://www.techradar.com/news/softwa...-rated-1041236

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