Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by dest » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:37 PM UTC

Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
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Re: Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by Cyph0n » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:45 PM UTC

That's really sad to hear. It's the best anti-Outlook as far as I know. The best solution imo is to just let the community take over.

Re: Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by coderdude » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:49 PM UTC

I hope someone picks up the reins. I install TB on every OS I have. I prefer it. I damn near require it for its cross platform consistency. Anything but Google or Microsoft (and I like both of those companies).

@bad_user quells my fears.

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Post by wslh » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:50 PM UTC

For e-mail Sylpheed was always an alternative: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

Re: Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by bad_user » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:51 PM UTC

Thunderbird is still being actively developed by the community. I'm on version 42 beta and it's looking good.

This is what open source is about. It doesn't matter if the parent no longer wants to maintain it. As long as there is interest, the product survives.

Re: Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by seszett » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:53 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #2

That's really sad to hear. It's the best anti-Outlook as far as I know. The best solution imo is to just let the community take over.

> It's the best anti-Outlook as far as I know.

I don't know about Windows, but on Linux... I try every so often to use other clients, but Thunderbird is still the only one I can bear.

For some reason there's always something that doesn't work with Gnome or KDE clients, keystore stuff that doesn't let me save my passwords, or seems to but doesn't actually remember them, or some indexation service insisting on taking half my CPU, or...

And the desktop-agnostic clients are ugly and lack features.

So through all this time, I've both hated Thunderbird and considered it the only usable client. I really wonder which one I'll switch to in the future.

Re: Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:55 PM UTC

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Post by jvehent » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:57 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #2

That's really sad to hear. It's the best anti-Outlook as far as I know. The best solution imo is to just let the community take over.

> The best solution imo is to just let the community take over.

... which is exactly what is being proposed here, with financial help from the Mozilla Foundation to ease the transition.

Re: Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by krisdol » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:59 PM UTC

seszett wrote: post #6

Cyph0n wrote: post #2

That's really sad to hear. It's the best anti-Outlook as far as I know. The best solution imo is to just let the community take over.

> It's the best anti-Outlook as far as I know. I don't know about Windows, but on Linux... I try every so often to use other clients, but Thunderbird is still the only one I can bear. For some reason there's always something that doesn't work with Gnome or KDE clients, keystore stuff that doesn't let me save my passwords, or seems to but doesn't actually remember them, or some indexation service insisting on taking h…

I'd give evolution another shot. I find it to be the only enterprise-ready one

Re: Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

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Post by astrodust » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 12:59 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #5

Thunderbird is still being actively developed by the community. I'm on version 42 beta and it's looking good. This is what open source is about. It doesn't matter if the parent no longer wants to maintain it. As long as there is interest, the product survives.

What are the compile times on that code-base like? I remember Firefox being so bad it was measured in eons.