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Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail

23 points by laktak 1y ago

EbNar 1y ago
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mubou 1y ago
Curious how far they intend to take the "email hosting service" side. Will it be limited to e.g. @thundermail.com domains or similar, same as Gmail & Outlook, or will I be able to bring my own domain? And if we can BYOD, will they let us have a catch-all? I want to be able to sign up for a service with company@mydomain, so if I get spammed I know who sold my data / got hacked and didn't admit it. I think Google Workspace and Proton are the only major email providers that support that. But the former means switching to a business account which doesn't always play nice with Google's other services, and the latter doesn't work well with other email clients (by design, of course, but I'd be worried about lock-in as a result). Regardless, I have reservations about trusting Mozilla with webmail. The "Looking Glass" fiasco from years back showed they don't mind selling out to brands, and their current financial trouble might make them more likely to do so again. I realize the Firefox fans will downvote me for saying that, but it's a legitimate concern.
- bravetraveler 1y ago
  Reservations here as well. They're becoming Google. Just a couple decades behind the curve. Google was exceedingly generous with storage on Gmail for a reason: data. The more they gave, the more to peruse. 1GB is still a lot of metadata.
- nicolaslem 1y ago
  Fastmail does the catch-all thing.
  - EbNar 1y ago
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theothertimcook 1y ago
Fuck me about 15 years too late. The switching costs for the average user is too high. They need to roadmap private groupware, and collaboration suite.
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 1y ago
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autoexec 1y ago
Now that mozilla is an ad-tech company I guess they want to be able to mine your email for data just like Gmail does.
joshuanapoli 1y ago
I wish they would tune up the Thunderbird UI to be more usable. It won’t matter if they make a cloud version that’s just as clumsy as their desktop app.
mhitza 1y ago
I'm willing to give their email service a try if that's ever a thing. Hope it works better than my trial of their Mozilla VPN, where I couldn't even open up images on imgur due to it being excessively blocked.
remram 1y ago
After all the bad press they got, they want to store all your email? Talk about bad timing... Will they claim a "license" on your emails overnight too?

23 points by laktak 1y ago

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Curious how far they intend to take the "email hosting service" side. Will it be limited to e.g. @thundermail.com domains or similar, same as Gmail & Outlook, or will I be able to bring my own domain? And if we can BYOD, will they let us have a catch-all? I want to be able to sign up for a service with company@mydomain, so if I get spammed I know who sold my data / got hacked and didn't admit it. I think Google Workspace and Proton are the only major email providers that support that. But the former means switching to a business account which doesn't always play nice with Google's other services, and the latter doesn't work well with other email clients (by design, of course, but I'd be worried about lock-in as a result). Regardless, I have reservations about trusting Mozilla with webmail. The "Looking Glass" fiasco from years back showed they don't mind selling out to brands, and their current financial trouble might make them more likely to do so again. I realize the Firefox fans will downvote me for saying that, but it's a legitimate concern.

bravetraveler 1y ago
Reservations here as well. They're becoming Google. Just a couple decades behind the curve. Google was exceedingly generous with storage on Gmail for a reason: data. The more they gave, the more to peruse. 1GB is still a lot of metadata.
nicolaslem 1y ago
Fastmail does the catch-all thing.
- EbNar 1y ago
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theothertimcook 1y ago

Fuck me about 15 years too late. The switching costs for the average user is too high. They need to roadmap private groupware, and collaboration suite.

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 1y ago

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autoexec 1y ago

Now that mozilla is an ad-tech company I guess they want to be able to mine your email for data just like Gmail does.

joshuanapoli 1y ago

I wish they would tune up the Thunderbird UI to be more usable. It won’t matter if they make a cloud version that’s just as clumsy as their desktop app.

mhitza 1y ago

I'm willing to give their email service a try if that's ever a thing. Hope it works better than my trial of their Mozilla VPN, where I couldn't even open up images on imgur due to it being excessively blocked.

remram 1y ago

After all the bad press they got, they want to store all your email? Talk about bad timing... Will they claim a "license" on your emails overnight too?