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Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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"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 protected] 47 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why now and not 10 sears ago?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago

“It is my conviction that all of this should have been a part of the Thunderbird universe a decade ago," Sipes says. “The absence of web services from us means that our users must make compromises that are often uncomfortable ones. This is how we correct that.”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Desperate for cash and the money from Google might be going away soon because of the antitrust case? Can’t take them on directly in Search; this honestly seems like one of the better ventures for them to go to. Still, 10 years ago would’ve been better and Mozilla squandered some of the goodwill they had in recent years; I’d be a little more reticent about moving my digital presence over now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can’t take them on directly in Search

Give it a few years, google search is already nearly unusable.

By the way, as a gmail replacement disroot has been great so far. I wonder what the free tier of thundermail will be like, but also worry a little that it might poach donations from smaller, free services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I used disroot for some time, it's great; but it still doesn't have encryption sadly. I think they're working on it though but you need to manually email your GPG key to them, so they can add it. It took me a couple of weeks to get a reply (understandable, the guy who handles it was busy)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I miss sears.

[–] andybytes 1 points 18 hours ago

Hahahhaha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone should buy the brand and take on Amazon.

[–] Flagstaff 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol, sadly nearly half of Amazon's income is from AWS; even if its entire marketplace went kaput tomorrow, it'd be fine because so much of the entire Internet depends on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe so. But there’s nothing stopping someone from selling Sears-owned hosting services other than investment. I can see someone like Mark Cuban doing this.

Amazon is very vulnerable right now because

people are boycotting them
their website is overrun with fake reviews and cheap junk
their products like Alexa are flopping and being canceled
they have overextended themselves buy purchasing outfits they don’t need like Whole Foods

Other retail outfits are flailing like Kohls, Target, and JC Penny for the same reasons.

All it would take is an online store that stands behind what they sell and doesn’t hide behind an eBay-style reseller system while calling it “retail”.

[–] Flagstaff 2 points 1 day ago

So there is hope... Don't tempt me with a good time!