Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service
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You have always been able to use your own domain email with Thunderbird. The big news here is the fact that they are launching not only a web based mail service a la Thunderbird but also providing an email server for addresses of [yourchosenname]@thundermail.com. which is gonna be pretty great.
I assume they mean that you can use your own domain with their email server.
I.e point your MX records to them.
Of course you always could use your own domain in their email client. It would be a pretty shitty email client otherwise.
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Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.
Why?
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Mine is E2EE.
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Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.
Why?
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Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.
Why?
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at exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It’s funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
Being angry at the Mozilla foundation for those changes is understandable.
Switching to Brave because of it is plain stupid. -
It works I already tried. But I stopped short of jumping on board because its not the safest. No, what we need is some fedi style development. We need email on fedi.
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That fork is what the Syncthing devs recommend. Pretty sure it's fine.
Oh good to see!
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Mine is E2EE.
Unless everyone you communicate with have agreed to use the same standard as you, no, it is not.
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"[...] This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy.”
That's a lot of words to say "we made an AI that totally won't suck up your data, trust me bro"
"nvidia's confidential compute" had me choke when reading it. Sure bro, sure.
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I keep hearing a lot of negative comments about Mozilla lately. I’m wondering if this move is more in line with then just turning into another google rather than disrupting the marketplace.
Google only checked out and cashed in after getting a monopoly. Mozilla let themselves fade into irrelevance.
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Nope, still requires double click
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I meant hosting wise, at home or using a VPS? How did you get a fixed IP/ what are you using for a proxy?
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I have fond memories of self-hosting a qmail setup for a long time, then eventually migrating to a postfix configuration, back in the day.
Keeping up with spam filtering finally did me in.
The spam filtering is painful. I kinda work around it by giving a unique e-mail for everything and of one starts getting spammed I just rid of that e-mail. Tends to give you advance warning of data breaches too since you’ll start seeing the spam come in before the announcement.
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Whatever their doing, it’s not worth it.
Eh it depends. I’m fortunate enough to be in a good IP block so I don’t get my e-mails dropped purely on that. It’s been a good learning experience and I’ve leaned on my own server a number of times for troubleshooting at work since I can see the whole mail flow. The only problem I have is the free Outlook/Hotmail will not accept my e-mails. Everybody else seems fine. All that said, I don’t host anybody else’s e-mail so I haven’t had any spam come out of my IP, and I would never in a million years host e-mail for a customer.
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I was thinking ab this being april fool bcz it's posted on 1st...
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You have always been able to use your own domain email with Thunderbird. The big news here is the fact that they are launching not only a web based mail service a la Thunderbird but also providing an email server for addresses of [yourchosenname]@thundermail.com. which is gonna be pretty great.
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Yeah, but the Thunderbird client... ain't great.
And yes, I'm a Linux nerd since 2003. Thunderbird's client sucks.
That said, I hope this is successful.
What client do you recommend instead?
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What client do you recommend instead?
