Comments on: Thunderbird gets podcasting support

Mozilla developers say the open-source e-mail client will deal with Podcast-type content and offer improved antiphishing.

[Bill Dautrive]

Losing focus

An email client is just that, an email client. Stuff like RSS and newsgroups fit in that, but expanding it further, dilutes the focus. It also adds bloat, and introduces the possibility of security issues.

If they want to create something that deals with these podcasts, build a seperate app.

Look at nearly every piece of MS software, some of them used to be good(office, IE) now they are a bloated security mess because they added needless features.

This trend of throwing everything, including the kitchen sink into software, needs to stop.

[ivand67]

Thunderbird is not for you

If all you want is simple e-mail, then that's not what Thunderbird is, and that's not what it's going to be.

If you closely followed the developments around the Mozilla client you would know that they are planning to position Thunderbird to go up against Outlook, just like they've done with Firefox and IE.

Thunderbird will and in my opinion should have many features, including a calendar with PIM (Lightning project, this might end up separate as an extension that thorouughly extends the GUI and funtionality of Thunderbird), RSS support, a newsreader, and yes, support for Podcasting.

And they will continue to improve on the e-mail features. Security will still remain the #1 priority, as with everything Mozilla does.