Comments on: Progress Update

By: Matthew Pollock

Matthew Pollock — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:50:19 +0000

Nearly a year later, no visible progress.

The Eudora team you referred me to have been, at least to the visible eye, not merely quiet, but COMPLETELY INACTIVE!

On the Thunderbird side, no movement either.

Still no outgoing filters!

You asked for some suggestions for your ‘About Me’. What about an explanation of what actually, really, truly, is going to be achieved at Thunderbird?

By: david

david — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:20:26 +0000

@Matthew: Eudora is doing its own thing, based on Thunderbird. See http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope for details.

By: Matthew Pollock

Matthew Pollock — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:49:47 +0000

So Thunderbird is going to become like Eudora, or not? I am puzzled.

There were all these announcements. But I search your blog for ‘Eudora’ and it’s nowhere. What happened to the Eudora idea? Eudora was great.

Thunderbird is not presently a viable heavy duty e-mail client. It’s buggy, the filters are useless, the directory is hopelessly clunky, the ‘find’ takes hours, it consumes vast amounts of disk space – in sum it is an absolute failure.

What is there to hope for? Please don’t tell us that TBird is really already half-way there, because believe me, it’s not. Some hope would be nice.

By: C.E. Paquin

C.E. Paquin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:56:51 +0000

Simple questions. ICANN is moving along IDN and soon enough we will have to deal with them in email as well. Does Mozilla Messaging’s team gave a thought to the protocol for internationalized emails (IETF & al.)? What’s your take on this and where would be it’s place in the master plan?

Cheers

By: Kymoon

Kymoon — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:45:48 +0000

Thanks for the update. I was wondering what was going on with TB, since I’m always reading news about Fx, but nothing for TB. I’ve been using the product since the very beginning loyally!!! Keep up the great work!

By: Scott Hicks

Scott Hicks — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:22:05 +0000

David, it’s nice to hear that things are progressing nicely for you and your team. I look forward to hearing more.

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:48:52 +0000

Thank you for the comments, David. I appreciate your ongoing involvement in the Thunderbird security release process and the input that you’ve given us.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:15:26 +0000

Just a quick note to say thanks for taking the time to write this. I’ve been a tbird user since 0.3 and was beginning to lose hope, but no more!

By: Eddy Nigg

Eddy Nigg — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:34:48 +0000

Good. Keep updating.

By: The Guru

The Guru — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:22:21 +0000

The hold off makes sense given Firefox has the larger user base and is more at risk for the given exploits.