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thunderbird discontinued?
2007-08-01, 4:52 AM #1
does anyone have any info on mozilla discontinuing thunderbird development? i can't seem to find any links.
2007-08-01, 4:56 AM #2
I just GoogleNews it: http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201201609&subSection=Global

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Makes total sense to discontinue it though, in todays online world offline email clients are pretty obsolete.
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2007-08-01, 6:00 AM #3
I think it's more likely to be spun off into it's own non-profit.

Offline email clients will never be dead, there are so many situations where I've been away from a wireless network, and needed an email for something or another.

I'm a longtime thunderbird user, pretty much since it's first windows release. I'd be saddened to see it go.
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2007-08-01, 6:08 AM #4
I've been using T-bird for a few years and love it. I hope it doesn't disappear completely.
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2007-08-01, 6:27 AM #5
It's not being discontinued, read the article. They're moving it out of Firefox's shadow is all.
2007-08-01, 6:45 AM #6
It isn't disappearing. They're just separating it from Firefox more, so it can recieve more attention. Possibly making it a different, separate, company.

That wasn't a very good article, it did make it seem like they were killing it. There was a much better one on digg yesterday, that I can't find now.
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2007-08-01, 7:48 AM #7
Originally posted by Fardreamer:
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2007-08-01, 9:26 AM #8
thanks. i understood that it was going to be gone.
2007-08-01, 10:05 AM #9
This article seems to indicate that a newer Thunderbird is out.
Nothing claims that it is gone.

http://www.autosdesign.com/ford-thunderbird.htm
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2007-08-01, 1:12 PM #10
It's still the standard thing to use at work here and far more efficient and useful than webmail.
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2007-08-01, 1:15 PM #11
I use Thunderbird because I have like 4 email accounts and I can check em all simultaneously.

2007-08-02, 8:48 PM #12
Originally posted by Fardreamer:
I just GoogleNews it: http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201201609&subSection=Global

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Makes total sense to discontinue it though, in todays online world offline email clients are pretty obsolete.



Doesn't anyone else find that statement particularly ignorant? I'm completely sold on online email accounts. They are all I use now since they offer plenty of space and are not isp dependant but it is much easier and far more efficient to access those accounts with a client. One of my favorite things during my last deployment to Iraq was Portable Thunderbird on a flash drive. Spend 30 seconds getting all my email, get off the computer, and type my replies offline as time permitted. Then simply send them the next time I downloaded my email.
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2007-08-03, 1:39 AM #13
I can't be the only one.
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2007-08-03, 6:45 AM #14
Originally posted by Wookie06:
Doesn't anyone else find that statement particularly ignorant? I'm completely sold on online email accounts. They are all I use now since they offer plenty of space and are not isp dependant but it is much easier and far more efficient to access those accounts with a client. One of my favorite things during my last deployment to Iraq was Portable Thunderbird on a flash drive. Spend 30 seconds getting all my email, get off the computer, and type my replies offline as time permitted. Then simply send them the next time I downloaded my email.
Alright maybe I generalized a bit, but offline APIs for browsers will solve this within a year or so.
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