Mozilla launching "MailCo"

[Posted September 18, 2007 by corbet]

According to Mitchell Baker's weblog, the Mozilla Corporation is launching "MailCo" (a real name will be chosen later) as a separate effort to develop Thunderbird. David Ascher will be leading the new organization. "Mozilla will provide an initial $3 million dollars in seed funding to launch MailCo. This is expected to be spent mostly on building a small team of people who are passionate about email and Internet communications. As MailCo develops it and the Mozilla Foundation will evaluate what's the best model for long-term sustainability. Mozilla may well invest additional funds; we also hope that there are other paths for sustainability."

native local maildir storage support

Posted Sep 18, 2007 17:14 UTC (Tue) by larryr (guest, #4030) [Link] (4 responses)

Here's hoping the small team of people who are passionate about email will add clean and efficient native local maildir storage support to Thunderbird.

Larry

native local maildir storage support

Posted Sep 18, 2007 20:58 UTC (Tue) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029) [Link]

I'd be happy with state-of-the-art biff technology. Every time it's requested, the developers reply that nobody really needs it, because nobody really uses local mail delivery anymore. Despite the counter-evidence of users *requesting* it, you'd think none of the TB developers had ever heard of "cron."

native local maildir storage support

Posted Sep 18, 2007 23:22 UTC (Tue) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]

And let's have "clean and efficient" IMAP support too please.

native local maildir storage support

Posted Sep 19, 2007 15:23 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

a.k.a. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308

native local maildir storage support

Posted Sep 19, 2007 20:14 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It *doesn't support maildir*?! Yet people *use* it for nontrivial amounts
of mail?

Dear holy writhing Cthulhu.

Mozilla launching "MailCo"

Posted Sep 18, 2007 17:36 UTC (Tue) by jordi (guest, #14325) [Link]

One wonders if Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation should look for "real names" as well, like... Firefox Corporation.

Mozilla launching "MailCo"

Posted Sep 18, 2007 20:44 UTC (Tue) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Just keep Seamonkey in development, and do with your *Co whatever you would like.