Thunderbird’s plans to expand beyond the desktop client took another step forward this month as the project published its latest progress report on Thunderbird Pro – the new Mozilla initiative to offer an open-source alternative to Gmail and Office 365, for which we informed you about at the beginning of April. Here’s where things stand so far.
Testing of Thundermail, the project’s email hosting service, has reached production level. Internal users have begun onboarding, allowing the team to validate account setup, support workflows, and delivery reliability. The refreshed Thundermail dashboard is also in place, giving users controls for custom domains, aliases, and account settings.
Given Mozilla going all in on “AI”, I wouldn’t touch this at any price. If I want a company to slurp up all of my email contents to feed their LLM I’ll just use Google (and to be clear, I don’t but I’m damn sure not going to pay someone to do it).
I wish them good luck. But still tied to Mozilla and no E2E encryption? Not gonna happen.