Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

Petr Krcmar writes "Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1 was released last month. A few months before, two main developers left the project and development was moved from the Mozilla Corporation to the Mozilla Messaging, the new subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. We had the opportunity to ask some questions to David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging CEO. The interview is about present and future of Thunderbird and about related projects like SeaMonkey, Spicebird and Mozilla Calendar."

Vowels

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Petr Krcmar

Son, you ain't got quite enough vowels in your name.

Mozilla calendar?

[moderatorrater]

Can't they come up with a better name than that? Something that combines a place or condition with an animal name? Something like "streetcornerzebra" or "bridgetroll"?

Come on, Mozilla, get your act together.

Hmmmm

[aeskdar]

Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

Neither does Microsoft's EULA

Re:Mozilla calendar?

[jlebrech]

How about SolarBadger!! It's a solar based calendar system, hence solar. and badger because I want it to.

Re:Mozilla calendar?

[oldspewey]

SundialFerret?

Pfff...

[mark72005]

I don't know what I will do if it doesn't duplicate all Outlook's amazing features like

-Being slower than sh#^ starting up or closing down
-Always telling me I didn't close it properly when I did, and making me sit through some shadowy scanning procedure that doesn't seem to do anything.
-Slow performance when sorting
-Slow performance when searching
-Slow to initially render the Outlook today page
-Resource pig for the simple functionality you get

How will I ever survive without something JUST LIKE OUTLOOK?

Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature

[Anonymous Coward]

Who do I have to blow to get plain text mail made the default?

Me, for a start!

Re:Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 Screenshot

[Errtu76]

Pah, i wouldn't use it. Have you seen how blurry certain parts of the screen are? It's totally useless in its current form.

Re:Pfff...

[Wiseazz]

Especially when Lotus Notes already does all those things... and does them better!

Re:PIM as Social Network Tool? Yes!

[Qzukk]

Wait, wait, so you're saying if we merged this PIM thing with social networking, we just might actually get someone laid [jwz.org]?!

What language interview questions translated?

[ClayJar]

Before creation of organization project left two main Thunderbird developers. How this situation remarks project and how are these developers involved in Thunderbird now?

That simply *must* be a mechanical translation. Not even *Yoda* speaks in that manner.

Re:Mozilla calendar?

[Anonymous Coward]

Regretfully, SolarBadger would be plagued by mushroom and snake bugs.

Re:Mozilla calendar?

[moderatorrater]

You mean shadowmushroon and watersnake, their techno music player and wiki software?

Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature

[jez9999]

I really think that you should only send carrige return in your mail if you want to start a new paragraph. Sending an entire paragraph as a single line is good, because then my mail program, can wrap the lines acording to my window size.

That's being very thoughtless and is bad netiquette. How is he supposed to print the e-mail out looking nice on his dot matrix printer if you do this?

In other news:

[cool-RR]

Nuclear Reactor Designers Don't Want To Duplicate Chernobyl.

Re:Vowels

[ozbird]

It's a little known fact that the Czechs invented SMS txt msgs.