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The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email

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Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service

"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.
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#email #opensource #thunderbird
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

@simpolomeowastaken That's talking about Assist, one of the totally optional Thunderbird Pro products. For starters, it will summarize your email and inboxes, with more features to be added. It uses LLama 3.2 which will run on NVIDIA confidential compute infrastructure and eventually locally on your machine. It won't use your email for training, and as an add-on, it will only be in the core Thunderbird client if you want it to be. We'll have.a blog post out soon with more about Thunderbird Pro!
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

@perksofbeingben That's a good question! I've gone ahead and passed it on to Ryan, and we'll try and get to it in our upcoming blog. As for calendar and contacts for Android, we don't have a timeline for those features at this point. Quick filters, however, HTML Signatures, and more desktop-like folders are coming this year: github.com/orgs/thunderbird/pr…

Thunderbird for Android Roadmap - v2 • thunderbird

Thunderbird for Android Roadmap: Get an inside look at the project's current plans and next stages of development
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Bernie

@OctaviaConAmore Quite a loaded question, isn't it? 😂

But, yes, it's now a separate entity called MZLA Technologies Corporation.

...and, no, it's wholly owned by the same Mozilla Foundation that's been adding anti-privacy junk features into Firefox:
blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/t…


Thunderbird's New Home - The Thunderbird Blog

As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation.
Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Bernie

@OctaviaConAmore It's not too clear whether donations to the new MZLA entity are earmarked exclusively for #Thunderbird development, or can be harvested by the parent organization to fund other projects.

I'd want to know because recently I've been donating to Thunderbird and I wouldn't like my donations to be redirected to #Firefox, given its current leadership and direction.

#firefox #thunderbird @Octavia con Amore
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

@codewiz All of the donations to MZLA go to Thunderbird! You can see how we put your donations to use in our yearly updates - here is the update for 2024: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/t…

State Of The Bird: Thunderbird Annual Report 2023-2024 - The Thunderbird Blog

Let's dive into the details with the Thunderbird Annual Report 2023-2024 to see how we've grown and what we've accomplished in the past year.
Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
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slyborg

Given Mozilla's history with service offerings lately, I think I'd have to see this not being EoS'd for the next 12 months at least before I'd consider it. And I'd have to have a better understanding of how Mozilla's interest in AI training/datamining is reflected in this service. This was actually one of Google's original purposes with Gmail.
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