Comments on: MailCo: More horsepower!

By: Rich Heimlich

Rich Heimlich — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:00:58 +0000

There are many things TB is falling behind in these days. So many people I show it to find it lacking in countless areas. For example, why can’t it be the hub of your mail and have plug-ins for things like cell phone access (including reading and text) so that I can easily access my mail at any time but not have to run countless confusing setups to keep it all straight?

By: Eric Kuo

Eric Kuo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:32:03 +0000

Thank goodness! I am so tired of crappy IMAP support, crashes from outlook, etc. Granted Thunderbird isn’t too great in those department atm. I have been proposing developing a mail client at our local linux user group as a group project. As I was doing my presentation for it, it dawned on me that Thunderbird’s main users will be business users. I got quoted recently in a computerWorld article for my work on Firefox enterprise deployment. Other people interviewed in the article also came to the same conclusion as me about the enterprise/business users. And that is there really isn’t too much demand. As much as Firefox is popular, we are just not seeing mass adoption by business users. Other than that, I do like to work on a better mail client.

By: Jon Pritchard

Jon Pritchard — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:16:03 +0000

I can’t wait for progress on Thunderbird to ramp up, finally having the manpower to do some amazing things. Even more so, I can’t wait until you announce the hire of some interface designers David.

By: Brian Kirsch

Brian Kirsch — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:51:43 +0000

Welcome aboard Dan!

I am excited to see the new
direction for Thunderbird and
MailCo.

By: Amsterdammer

Amsterdammer — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:32:08 +0000

Your work on MailCo is fine, thanks for doing this difficult job. But who works on Thunderbird 3? When does community get the first alpha?