Help Keep Thunderbird Alive • Hacker News Board

Re: Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

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Post by latexr » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 11:27 AM UTC

latexr wrote: post #17

If you press the browser’s back button on the donation page, they send you to a page pestering you for your email address so they can send you a reminder to donate later. Talk about a dark pattern. Mozilla has really gone off the rails. An organisation who claims to work on behalf of the user and who makes a web browser, actively hijacking the user experience to peddle for a few dollars? Why the heck is Thunderbird “…

Credit where it’s due: I just rechecked the page and they no longer hijack the back button.

Re: Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

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Post by boisterousness » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

niels8472 wrote: post #134

criticalfault wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.tb.pro/en-US/thundermail/ Hosted Securely in Germany Your emails are protected by strict EU privacy laws and hosted on infrastructure you can trust. With servers located in Germany, Thundermail prioritizes your privacy while ensuring reliable, fast delivery worldwide.

Looks like it's still owned by Mozilla/MZLA and thus subject to US jurisdiction.

It appears to belong to another subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation: MZFO GERMANY GMBH, which would be subject to German, not US, law.

Re: Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

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Post by boisterousness » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:08 AM UTC

bhasi wrote: post #355

I don't see anyone mentioning Betterbird here. I use that instead of Thunderbird. But it really baffles me that even in Betterbird, the ability to star an email exist but not a way to show all the starred emails.

In Thunderbird's message list, you can bring all the starred emails to the top by sorting on the star column. Just click on the column header.

Also, in the Quick Filter, you can click the star button to "Show only starred messages".