WLS wrote:
On 07/09/2012 11:55 AM, BIll Spikowski wrote:
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.
SeaMonkey accepts donations.
https://donate.mozilla.org/page/contribute/seamonkey
I donated anyway. Now I expect SM to keep the email component alive.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:[email protected]
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