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Mozilla Messaging Launches To Fix Email – Will It Be Enough?
The non-profit Mozilla Foundation has spun off their email application development into a new entity named Mozilla Messaging. The first goal of the new group will be the development and (late 2008) release of Thunderbird 3.
CEO David Ascher has written about the journey which he called "MailCo" until today. There’s also a FAQ with information about the group and what the new product will include. As for the product release, "Thunderbird 3 will include calendaring, better search, and better overall user experience, much like Firefox 3."
With more people using wireless devices, it will be critical for Thunderbird to integrate with these devices. Make it easy for the average Internet user to keep their mail current no matter how it’s accessed. This is why I believe that Zimbra is so powerful. With their new desktop client, the actual email is left on the server and you can access it on the desktop, on the Web, on your mobile, etc.
I would hope that the calendar can keep an online, shareable calendar updated as well. And will we see some of the social, trust features of Xobni integrated into Thunderbird 3? What suggestions do you have for the team?
At the very least, it will good to see Thunderbird get even more love. To start, it would be great to see TB have the same kind of add-on ecosystem that Firefox users enjoy.
Mark
I have been a long time user of thunderbird and the one thing I would change is its junk mail handling. Why it does not run on each email as it comes in is beyond me.
Also it could do with tarting up it looks old these days.
I am using mac mail at the moment but I will be open to trying 3 out when they release it.
Seems to me that buying into Zimbra might be a touch risky. ISTR it’s a Yahoo!-owned product, which means it will probably soon be a MS!-owned product in direct competition with Exchange Server.
Is anyone aware of a plugin for TB which has if not all but some features of Xobni? Besides is anyone aware of when is xobni due for TB? I signed up for their outlook beta and they did mention they were working on the TB version.