Rick Merrill wrote: > BIll Spikowski wrote: >> NoOp wrote: >>> I wonder what affect this will have on the SeaMonkey email client: >>> >>> <http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird/> >>> <http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/> >>> >>> <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model> >>> >>> "Mozilla is focusing a lot of its efforts towards important web and >>> mobile projects, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop only email >>> client. We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on >>> Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla and that the most critical >>> needs for the product are on-going security and stability. In fact, it >>> is quite possible that Thunderbird is already pretty much what its >>> users >>> want and there is not a high demand for innovation in this field." >> >> >> I agree that the Seamonkey email client "is already pretty much what >> its users want" -- but that doesn't mean we wouldn't want something >> even better, or at least have confidence that we won't be losing a >> familiar tool that so many of us depend on so heavily all day, every >> day. >> >> I've fallen completely for the Sync feature, and have been dreaming >> about being able to Sync address books across my computers. It's quite >> a shock to hear the opposite, that the Mozilla folks are about to >> abandon further development of Thunderbird, and by extension Seamonkey >> too. >> >> The idea that webmail is clearly superior is incredibly absurd! I'm >> glad it works for lots of other folks (though I suspect mainly because >> they don't realize there are superior alternatives). I use webmail >> often, and hate every minute of it.... >> > > > Suppose you had browser-based email whose interface looked and worked > like the SeaMonkey mail client? Surely you wouldn't hate that!-) > > The big advantage of such a system would be that it makes your address > book and bookmarks available to you from any of your computers.
That's why I like the new Sync feature, even though it doesn't (yet?) include the address book. Your idea would help a lot, but my e-mail archives are an invaluable treasure to my business and I would NEVER trust their long-term storage to the cloud, or to anyone else's email servers. I'll admit that my personal system using Seamonkey is cumbersome (POP at my office to permanently store emails, and IMAP on my laptop so I can read and respond to emails comfortably while traveling without duplicating their storage), but I sure haven't figured out any other system that would work for me! Yes, I'm one of those people who would pay for continuing minor improvements to Seamonkey. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
