On 29/01/18 09:58, Graeme Cross via luv-main wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, at 1:49 AM, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
On 26/01/18 19:39, Anthony via luv-main wrote:
Is Thunderbird getting active development these days (did I misread awhile back it'd been kiiiinda orphaned at some stage?) Yes, sadly TB doesn't get anywhere near the love it deserves. I can't understand why so many people are so happy to use Lookout (as an MUA and via web) or Gmail -- don't they care at all about privacy and seucrity?
I think that TB was "almost" orphaned, but it hasn't been; still it is not getting much real support from Mozilla whom seem to care only about their 57+ browser....
Mozilla hired developers for Thunderbird last year and are continuing to hire:
These four staff members are just the beginning. The project is currently in the process of hiring developers to address some technical debt, fix some sore points in the software and transition the codebase from a mix of C++, JavaScript, XUL and XPCOM to be increasingly based on web technologies. https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird-releases-and-ne...
https://twitter.com/mozthunderbird
Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________
I gave geary a go with gmail accounts and it was really fast. It doesn't have as many features as Thunderbird though. from Michael