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[Thunderbird] No more Thunderbird

Well, perhaps now we do not have to worry about incompatible extensions (e.g. Lightning) whenever Mozilla updates TB to a newer version.

I like TB's easy to manage multiple IMAP e-mail account, and will continue to use TB.

Yes,I use that extension too and only use it with version 12 on my W2K machine.
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That stinks. TBird has been my primary email client for years!!!!!
I started using TBird when version 1 came out and I have not use anything else out side of Outlook at work. At least they are going to release security updates for a year.
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Hmm, that's a shame. I've been using Thunderbird Portable with Lightning for a few years now.

I rarely updated anyway, so this won't really affect me. I'll take my time finding another client. Maybe go back to Pegasus, if it's still around. I used that for over a decade before switching to TB for better IMAP. I even dabbled in Opera's M2 for a while before deciding it sucked.
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Also spotted at: The Verge

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Mozilla has been rapidly pushing out new versions of the open-source email client Thunderbird lately, including version 13 just one month ago. The cycle's come to an end, however: Mozilla has announced it will be stopping development of the application because "continued innovation in Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla's product efforts." The company won't be leaving the application's more than 20 million users stranded, however. On November 20th Mozilla plans to release one more version, bringing complete feature parity to both it and the Thunderbird ESR (Extended Support Release) version. Both branches will receive security updates every six weeks thereafter for the duration of the ESR lifecycle, which is currently capped at one year. The developer community at large will be able to participate in further development of Thunderbird moving forward, however, with Mozilla pledging to provide resources for said efforts.

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This is sad indeed!

I've been using Thunderbird for many years. It did exactly what I wanted in an e-mail client, without all the bells and whistles that others have (Outlook comes to mind here).

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Yeah, I just moved to Windows 7 and tried Windows Live Mail but it was buggy. The message filters would leave entries in the in-box for emails that it moved to a folder. The entries left in the in-box would open nothing.

So, tried out Thunderbird and it seems to work well. Have multiple email accounts using POP. The only add-on I've installed so far is an email importer.

To be honest, as long basic email functionality and security issues are maintained, all I care about.

With Windows XP, I never used anything other than Outlook Express.

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No, that is not "it" for Thunderbird.
»mikeconley.ca/blog/2012/07/06/no···derbird/

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Now before you all go running around with your heads chopped off saying things like, “Welp, that’s it for Thunderbird!”, or “We’d better fork that mutha!”, stop for a second, and read this.

Thunderbird is not dead.

Not by a long shot.

Please don’t overreact.

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Well, that makes me feel better.

While I knew we could continue to use it, even if Mozilla stopped development of new versions, I'm glad to see that they are going to continue to support and maintain the product, just at a slower rate.

If I had to think about something that was missing from Thunderbird...I would have a hard time coming up with a list, let alone one or two things. To me, it is the "perfect" Mail Client. It does everything I want it to do, in a simple easy manner, without a lot of overhead.

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Ludovic Hirlimann - Thunderbird's future from the inside

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I’m reading the reactions on what mozilla just announced about the future of Thunderbird, on twitter. Most people are reading what we are saying as Thunderbird just died and was axed. I’ve replied to a few but I thought that a longer reply would explain more by a lengthy post than a bunch of 140 char tweets.

Like Mike, I work on the Thunderbird Team, I do Quality Control. And like mike I don’t read the announcement the end of Thunderbird. The plan is to release 14, 15, 16 before we release 17 and with 17 we plan on starting our new way of supporting Thunderbird. After 17 is release the plan is to allocate less work time on Thunderbird - ie I spend 100% of my work time on the product - on a weekly basis, and a bit more around release time. I’m not the only one who is going to end up like that. Effectively it means that we won’t have the time to work on specking, developing and testing new features.

New features will have to be discussed, developed and tested by our community with our help for organizing things. How exactly things will work ? I don’t know, and we are starting a discussion on the tb-planning mailing list to figure things out. Now is the time to jump in that conversation and help us shape how Thunderbird will go on.

We’ll also need a lot more help in the following areas : Quality, support, development and docs. If you ever thought about contributing but never found good reasons, now is the time to rethink about it

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Well thanks, chachazz, for clearing that up. I am not a computer nerd (i.e. I have no formal training in any of the computer sciences) but I do at least consider myself an intermediate to advanced user after the last 15 years of computing.

I've used Mozilla based e-mail since the very beginning in the Netscape days and I find it to be the easiest and most useful e-mail client ever.

I'm glad to hear T-Bird will be around for the future.

Thanks for all the work you and the rest of the team have done to make this a most excellent product.