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In this Ars Technica article, Mozilla Corporation Chair Mitchell Baker discloses the desire to drop the Thunderbird email client altogether.
"Many inside of Mozilla, including an overwhelming majority of our leadership, feel the need to be laser-focused on activities like Firefox that can have an industry-wide impact." Baker writes. "With all due respect to Thunderbird and the Thunderbird community, we have been clear for years that we do not view Thunderbird as having this sort of potential."
Thunderbird has already been demoted to second-tier status, receiving only security updates since the summer of 2012. Baker's plan would turn Thunderbird over to a community product, similar to what happened with the Mozilla Suite a decade ago.
Is Mozilla's decision to laser-focus on improving Firefox going to stop their dwindling market share? Who else, besides the submitter, is still using Thunderbird? And where will you go once Thunderbird is no longer supported?
(Score: 2) by cykros on Thursday December 03 2015, @06:51AM
I use thunderbird, as it just generally has made using multiple accounts with simple encryption/signing (through enigmail) something that is easily available.
If it goes, I suppose I'll have to finally sit down and set up a good mutt config file. A word of warning though; once I go this route, the likelihood of a gui stealing me back very quickly approaches 0. CLI clients are always more efficient; they simply have that learning time factor that lets anything else compete. Considering that mutt will do the work of enigmail with builtin gpg support, and that the whole setup is leaps and bounds more versatile (thanks to being something I can just tie up in existing gnu screen sessions), there'll be no going back.
Frankly, I'm almost grateful mozilla is finally putting some heat on me here. The only thing delaying this for years now has been working 70 hours a week, but if I HAVE to...