Re: Need alternative to Mozilla Thunderbird

Subject: Re: Need alternative to Mozilla Thunderbird
From: Michael McCallister <workingwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Craig Cardimon <craig -dot- cardimon -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:42:12 -0500

Craig,

I wouldn't panic about this. Mozilla announced "the end of the line" for
Thunderbird in July 2012, and I just upgraded Thunderbird to v24 a week or
two ago. At the time, Mozilla basically said there weren't any new features
coming to Thunderbird, mostly because email was a mature technology. I
think plugins are still being made and released, and all the other usual
security updates and the like happen regularly. Here's a blog I posted at
the time:

http://metaverse.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/674/

That said, I'm always open to hearing about new mail clients, if anyone
knows of another Windows client.

Mike


Mike McCallister
In stores now: 2nd Edition of "WordPress in Depth" (with Bud Smith)
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Craig Cardimon <craig -dot- cardimon -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:

> Whirlers,
>
> I heard a rumor that Mozilla plans to discontinue development of
> Thunderbird (to concentrate its attention on Firefox).
>
> I love Thunderbird, I use it everyday at home. But I would rather migrate
> off of it sooner rather than later.
>
> Any suggestions on a good, free email client?
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Craig Cardimon
> "The Duct Tape Writer"
> (Assignments wrapped. Deadlines beaten.)
>
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