One of my first jobs in IT was as a “computer consultant” for my university.  I got to learn a lot about computers of various kinds (including currently useless but still formative bits like writing REXX programs on a CP/CMS IBM 3090 mainframe), and, more importantly, I learned a lot about what it takes to [...]

Thunderbird knows a lot about your email. After all, it’s got access to large amounts of data, and builds sophisticated databases so that it can be very responsive, even when dealing with large folders containing thousands of messages. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use this information to extract either faster workflow, [...]

On the road to Thunderbird 3, another milestone — this time, Thunderbird 3 beta 2.

Why do beta releases?
Beta releases are funny things. They serve a few purposes. The first is to make sure that we periodically stabilize the code base, as without periodic ‘cooling’, it’s hard to get a handle on the quality [...]

I just realized that I forgot to blog about some of the exciting things going on in Thunderbird land these days.
First, I’m very happy to announce that another engineer has signed up to work full time on Thunderbird — Mark Banner, aka Standard8 on IRC. Mark is well known to the Mozilla community, as [...]