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(what are they? why develop them?), the values behind them, and why the core desktop and mobile apps will never be behind a paywall. Read more and get the facts beneath the hype: blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/t…

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Announcing a new Thunderbird email service called Thundermail as part of the Thunderbird Pro suite of additional services.
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Vítor de Matos

As long as the "pro" offering appears only once upon the "setup new email account" and no random nagging popups bloat the app, it may reduce the amount of people tied to GAFAM bad actors. But let's hope the default option remains "Setup your existing email address..." Why don't use a dropdown like you already do when "offering to share files largen than..." (eg filelink via dav). A feature its only trully optional when there's no nagging or misleading interaction.
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Jean-Christophe Dichant

An interesting project.
Having said that, I only use Thunderbird to archive my e-mails, as the ergonomics and design are really not modern. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why users are switching to well-known platforms.
With this project, are you also planning to overhaul the ergonomics and design to keep up with modern tools ?
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@paulhullford Thanks for asking! These are two separate products, and right now, there's no timeline for a built-in calendar on the Android app. But a good way to show support is upvoting suggestions like this on Mozilla Connect: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/c…

Calendar support on Thunderbird mobile

It would be great if Thunderbird mobile supports calendars like the desktop applications supports calendars. 
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Gary T. Giesen

Excited to hear about this. More than willing to pay for accounts, assuming it has the following features:

1) Servers hosted in a privacy-respecting country (ie. not the US) - I believe @ryanleesipes has already mentioned it will probably be Germany
2) Bring your own domain support - I believe it's been mentioned this will be a launch feature as well
3) SSO support (SAML/OIDC)

Any idea when the beta will launch?

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@ggiesen Thanks so much for the thoughtful feedback! Thundermail is still in early stages, and so if you've signed up for the mailing list at thundermail.com/ you're pretty much set! We're planning for some deep dive blog on each of the services, and we'll definitely be sharing those here once they're out.

Thunderbird Pro Beta Access

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Gary T. Giesen

Would be more than willing to pay for Thundermail assuming it has the following:

1) Mail hosted in privacy-respecting country (ie. not the US) - I believe @ryanleesipes has already indicated this will likely be Germany

2) Bring your own domain support

3) SSO support (SAML/OIDC)

Any ideas when the beta might launch?

@Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅