Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service
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If this works out it might be a nice place to migrate to away from my self-hosted e-mail provided they eventually let you bring your own domain. Just sucks that e-mail is essentially the most secure thing you need to have since compromising that can compromise every account attached to the e-mail. That’s a lot of trust you need to instill in your e-mail host.
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Considering labels are very non-standard, which caused trouble over IMAP since forever, I wouldn't count on that part.
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No matter how much I hate Mozilla's new path, companies like this challenging big tech are bold and have a lot of courage. If I set aside my personal op opinions about Mozilla, I actually admire them for this. They can actually dent big tech with funding from big tech itself.
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So the Mozilla Foundation is gonna waste google money on email infrastructure? Hmmm... 'k... it's not like their browser could use some love...
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It's a saturated market and email is starting to disappear (it'll take years, but the signs are there).
They'd be better using it on the browser and ditching other products. -
are you implying firefox is in a state of neglect?
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You say you’re self hosting your email, how are you doing that?
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Email won't disappear sooner or later. It's a huge part of communication between companies, nonprofit, state, etc. It may be less between people or with consumers. But, it still is widely use otherwise.
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Email isn’t going anywhere. It’s the ipv4 of communication. You can list 100 things bad about it and none of it matters, too many things are now built on top of it, no competitor can possibly have a chance without first reimplementing email, and then they’re just adding extensions which everyone else ignores, and email continues.
The more plausible threat to email is that it gets siloed into the top 5 or 6 providers and everyone else gets filtered out as spam (ie you need gmail, hotmail, etc or your emails will never reach anyone)
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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.
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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'm curious, not bashing. What signs have you seen that lead you to believe email is dying?
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It's insecure by default and Kids These Days
prefer messaging apps, which have boomed in the last decade.
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No there yet but not getting the love it deserved either.
Maybe they oughta try asking for money like Wikipedia and KDE, maybe then they could become independent from Google and focus on actually developing a quality browser instead of making every app be about profit. -
What do you make of the use of email in the business world? You're right that quite a bit of that has turned into instant messaging as well, ie I text my boss instead of sending them mail but it definitely feels like that's going away a lot slower if not expanding
