Why now and not 10 sears ago?
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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I miss sears.
Hahahhaha
I for one see this as a very positive development. This is the way to make money without selling out your users but by making them your customers. Honestly I really didn't want to use gmail as a mail provider, but I wanted to use my own domain for emails so I had to do complicated setups with MXRoute which normal people can't do. I still have to pay MXRoute and because I'm using Thunderbird as my mail client both on desktop and phone, I might as well switch to Thundermail.
Compared to what is happening with Firefox, I think Thunderbird has been on the right track for many years now. And I'm not alone with this assessment, you can see it on the donations basically doubling every year.
Even their AI experiments they communicate that it will be running locally very cautiously, I'm telling you guys, this is the way. Not by alienating potential customers with a shift towards advertisers but instead offering them a solution to a problem they have (mail hosting) and which is really close to the core business and a natural fit.
Same with Thunderbird Send and Thunderbird Appointment, those are things around email which now are kind of hard to do for people and other clients have it build in like Outlook with Sharepoint and the build in scheduling assistant. With Thunderbird you need to know about something like Doodle and do it on the side manually.
Well: So far we no nothing about "thundermail"; and mozilla is already struggling with just making firefox good. Why not tuta/posteo/mailbox.org/disroot? Why put all your eggs in one basket? I'm already feeling uneasy with just using firefox.
At least Thundermail would be part of a "Thunderbird pro" package, so you would still be free to use Thunderbird with any of the above alternatives. I'd think the opt-in pro service would serve as a revenue stream to keep development going in all products, including the open source mail client.
I scroll down and the page turns black with a text in the middle
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
well that's a first for me…
I see you've never developed in react. Let me show you the pain and suffering you have missed.
Yeah, did they deploy it development mode or something? It just needs to display static HTML, so just ignoring the error would fix this.
I'm good.
From the same company that "I can take any data that is 'necessary' to keep the browser working". I wouldn't trust those guys anymore.
Writing this in the context of Google being the alternative is an interesting take (especially when Google hijacks internet standards with things like manifestv3 and has ads in their competing email service)
I got your point. However, being "less evil" is not good enough.
Mozilla? More like Mo’$$illa
Neat! Hopefully I can get in on the beta but even if I can't I look forward to trying it out!