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Mozilla Opens Thunderbird Email Subsidiary

Posted by kdawson on from the need-a-cute-mascot dept.

alphadogg is one of several readers to note the opening of the Mozilla Foundation's new subsidiary, Mozilla Messaging, charged with developing the free, open source Thunderbird email software. Mozilla Messaging will initially focus on Thunderbird 3, which aims at improving several aspects of the software, including integrated calendaring and better search. ZDNet UK's coverage leads with the interest the new organization has in developing instant-messaging software.

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  1. The real story by savala · · Score: 5, Informative

    The CEO of this new Mozilla Messaging company writes the most insightful blog post containing the most hopeful look at the future of messaging and how Thunderbird could make a difference there... and slashdot links to mostly useless informationweek and zdnet stories?? Bleh...

    David Ascher really gives me hope for where things are going - but he can't do it alone. And he can't get the people who'd help to do so if he's being ignored!

    1. Re:The real story by mashade · · Score: 4, Informative

      I think that's a lot of conjecture (but aren't all slashdot comments?), but keep in mind that Google recently added IMAP functionality to its Gmail service. This has been paramount to getting lots of organizations, including my own, to switch to Google Apps for email.

      And that's hardly hostile towards Thunderbird, the sister of their preferred browser.

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  2. Re:Better Search Sounds Good by Fast+Thick+Pants · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was also easy to set up virtual folders (based on search criteria) to associate your e-mail according to several criteria.

    Thunderbird can already do this, see kb.mozillazine.org/Saved_Search. And the searches are pretty damn fast.

  3. Re:Exchange Server? by EvilRyry · · Score: 4, Informative

    With the openchange project working on libmapi, I could certainly see this as a possibility. The SOAP calls that were previously relied by Evolution and Apple Mail on are far too slow and unstable.

  4. WebDAV/CalDAV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lightning supports both WebDAV and CalDAV, which allow calendar sharing. It plays with google calendar & Apple's iCal. It just doesn't play with Outlook/Exchange.

    Evolution works with exchange, as does MS's Outlook Web Access.