Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
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Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
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#2> These services come with real costs, especially storage and bandwidth. Charging for them helps ensure that users who benefit from these tools help cover their cost, instead of donors footing the bill.
This is the best way to monetize the extra sevices imo.
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#4site down, archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250822103720/https://blog.thun...
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#5Here’s the link for anyone wanting to join the waitlist for Thundermail (the service):
I really hope this takes off well and provides some funding for the Thunderbird project too. Currently the only way to monetarily support Thunderbird is through donations (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/ ).
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#6> The upcoming email hosting service from Thunderbird will support IMAP, SMTP and JMAP out of the box
Is there any email hosting out there with support for JMAP?
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#7I find this totally reasonable. I think it's a good way to fund open source. I just hope this doesn't create any perverse incentives to make self hosting harder than necessary
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#8> The upcoming email hosting service from Thunderbird will support IMAP, SMTP and JMAP out of the box Is there any email hosting out there with support for JMAP?
Fastmail has had it for a while.
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#9Previous thread on the initial product announcement,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560885 ("Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)"—4 months ago, 341 comments)