welp I signed up for the waitlist.
I'll use it for a disposable email at first, and if it endures and does well I'll move my main shit off to it.
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Sounded great until the "assist" ai feature. I friggin hate Gemini in gmail so any other kind of ai is an automatic nogo for me
I'd consider it. If they host things outside of the US/start moving operations overseas, it'd be a lot more interesting. I sub to Proton for email, VPN, and drive support. Still hoping someday for proper Linux drive support so Mozilla/Thunderbird can target that
I'm listening...
But how is a small non-profit going to afford a free email service? Ads in every email?
Based on what I've seen in their forums it will be a paid service. I think it will be free at first for beta testers but I assume they are targeting people who currently use services like Proton.
Thanks for the info.
But I think they'll still need an ad driven free version to gain acceptance.
Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.
Why?
I went looking for something official but couldn't find it.
You imply OP knows how to read & they read the whole article and noticed the source. 💀
Tbh because it was the one shared on Reddit. Though if you have the right browser extensions when I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Upvoted for honesty lol.
I think it's incredibly important that people know, with absolute certainty, whether or not the new Mozilla/Firefox privacy policy in any way applies to / covers such a service.
I'm not saying I know the answer- What I'm saying without a concrete, permanently applied answer it's not even considerable.
There is no email service that exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It's funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
at exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It’s funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
Being angry at the Mozilla foundation for those changes is understandable. Switching to Brave because of it is plain stupid.
I do think the brave devs or teams starting spreading the “switch to brave” as a growth hack. No right minded person would pick brave over ff. Maybe librewolf sure.
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Err... does this mean we can get a Mozilla or Thunderbird email address?
Yes, sort of. Thundermail addresses, apparently, or bring your own. From the linked article you're commenting on:
Users can send and receive email using new Thundermail accounts they sign up for. The service will also allow using your own custom domain (e.g. [email protected]).
You have always been able to use your own domain email with Thunderbird. The big news here is the fact that they are launching not only a web based mail service a la Thunderbird but also providing an email server for addresses of [yourchosenname]@thundermail.com. which is gonna be pretty great.
I assume they mean that you can use your own domain with their email server.
I.e point your MX records to them.
Of course you always could use your own domain in their email client. It would be a pretty shitty email client otherwise.
Yeah, but the Thunderbird client... ain't great.
And yes, I'm a Linux nerd since 2003. Thunderbird's client sucks.
That said, I hope this is successful.
I've been using Thunderbird for email for years. I use it with some SMTP servers on shared hosting platforms, a yahoo account and a few gmail accounts - one with calendars. I don't have any problems with it. Runs stable, doesn't crash or do weird things. My only complaint would be search is a little clunky, but it works.
I had to use Outlook client for year at another job and that client was hot garbage.
and it does RSS
Whats wrong with the thunderbird client.
Even when I was on windows back on XP I used it. Never had a problem with it or its functionality, personally.
Nerds like us can figure it out.
But it's hardly user friendly. I'm not going to get into the minutiae, but Joe Blow could probably get it to fetch, and send, but the user interface options like font size, etc., blows. Typical nerd "It's good enough for me, RTFM, losers."
And I'm too old to fuck with things for fun. I want it to just work, and I'm not paying Apple prices for that, or supporting Microsoft's eventual SaaS subscription model, which WILL eventually happen.
I mean.. It doesnt exactly take being hackerman, master of all hackermans to open a dropdown menu, bro.
What client do you recommend instead?
Depends what you're after. I'm a Thunderbird user, but if user friendliness is the aim then Geary is quite good.
For Linux, I can't think of another user side client. I use web based.
So, I'm happy to see Mozilla get into that arena.
Thunderbird Pro will apparently be:
This email thing plus Thunderbird Send (which is basically https://send.vis.ee/), Thunderbird Appointment - a scheduling tool and Thunderbird Assist, which is:
"...at least for now, being cautiously labeled as “an experiment” that will allow users to take advantage of AI features within their email. However, the goal is to be lightweight enough that the language models can be run locally on a user’s PC in the interest of privacy. This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy."
So AI shit that nobody asked for or wants.
This covers my thoughts about damn near every "helpful" feature this side of auto-complete email addresses.
They said it will be opt-in and are trying to make it local-first. Their provider(?) apparently allows fallback to nvidia cloud compute when the hardware can't handle it.
I'm not using AI to write my fucking emails, regardless. Just wanted to let people know.
p.s. Sorry, I'm dumb, skipped over quote in parent comment. Point is, there's more to the service than optional AI bullshit, and you shouldn't have to disable it.
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No matter how much I hate Mozilla's new path, companies like this challenging big tech are bold and have a lot of courage. If I set aside my personal op opinions about Mozilla, I actually admire them for this. They can actually dent big tech with funding from big tech itself.
For now, they're better than Google. I have some bad opinions about them, but anything better than Google competing with Google is an improvement.
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