Comments on: Mozilla tries Firefox recipe with Thunderbird

The Mozilla Foundation is funding a subsidiary to improve the open-source e-mail software. Will more plug-ins and a universal mailbox come next?

[Ilgaz]

Suggest Gmail to corporate people?

I wonder if Mozilla people keeps critical data in Gmail themselves?

Suggesting a open or payware standards based IMAP5 server such as Cyrus, Domino would make sense but suggesting Gmail or ISP mail to corporate people makes me wonder when will their close ties will END with Google.

It became almost funny.

No, I am not offloading my private mails to a service which analyzes them and keeps them forever. I would pay for a good IMAP solution instead, my private data is worth much more than that.

[ittesi259]

Firefox in businesses?

Don't let the subject line fool you, I love firefox, and its the only browser I use at home. But are their any large companies that publicly do not use IE? I use Thunderbird with my personal E-Mail as well. For some basic POP3 there really is no diff between it and outlook, which isn't good for the "superior" outlook. That being said, I'm glad more work is being placed into it.

[jeolmeun]

Delete from server when deleted from Trash.

I'm still waiting for Thunderbird people to implement one simple option to delete emails from the server when POP emails are deleted from the client's trash folder.

That was the only thing preventing me from switching over to Thunderbird from Outlook Express. There were many requests on the forums, but they don't want to add it for some reason.

[jeolmeun]

2.0.0.6 has Until I delete them.

This option, "Leave messages on server" "Until I delete them", must be new in version 2.0. It's time to switch.

I wouldn't mind "POP3: Individual Message Deleting" like Eudora now.

[Shankland]

Maybe upcoming Eudora version will?

I'm not sure about how well Thunderbird today implements that feature, but I recall from days of yore that Eudora did. With Qualcomm's Eudora engineers now reproducing the Eudora interface on a Thunderbird foundation (work called Penelope), perhaps that feature will be available that way.

[Kongar]

i agree!!!!!!!

the exact same thing that is keeping me from using this product exclusively. i use it as an aside to earthlink's webmail product which is an absolute freaking joke. but sadly, no email portability yet. wonder if they'll ever enact that legislation (sigh...) i would stick with earthlink if their webmail wasnt such a freaking joke.

[m.meister]

not impressed

It is unfriendly and reeks of last century. The interface feels out of
place, whether it is on Windows or Mac.

I wasn't impressed at all.

[C.Schroeder]

Multi-platform email access

I've been using Thunderbird for several years now and v2.0 since it was released so I can access my email at work from both Solaris and Windows. Prior to Thunderbird I used Netscape 4.x to do this.

My biggest wish would be interoperability with the MS Exchange calendar so I could access it directly from Solaris, instead of via Rdesktop and a Windows Terminal Server.

[astawerksdotcom]

Great one two punch

sounds like its going to be a winner. im 100% behind mozilla and their movement. Firefox is the best browser for being a webmaster and SEO work and thunderbird is not as good as outlook yet but I know they will improve it alot

JB
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[Bellette]

ThunderBird Is Go!

About time too.

Finally an opportunity to use (on a PC) the very useful concept
that Apple pioneered, with it's brilliant Dot-Mac service, which
allows one to check any outside mail server and see it at Dot-
Mac's site and, more importantly, see it effortlessly
synchronized with one's Mac based email client when you get
home.

Well done Mozilla et al.

Is their a Windoze offering in this arena?

Bellette/.

[BunchOfFun]

Mozilla Suite?

I'm still using Mozilla Suite 1.7.13 which is showing it's age but I love the integration.

They dumped it and started SeaMonkey (why add all these confusing names?!) which doesn't work with the old Calendar extension!

An integrated suite is important for business users like myself.

[larryt2]

whats so new about this

Ive been using Thunderbird for a couple of years Outlook sucks tried Eudora but to many adds and complicated Thunderbird is just right now if they could make Thunderbird as a plug in for Firefox that would be great!!!

[froasier]

$3 Million?

Where does Mozilla get all this money?

[Alonsx]

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