Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beside Thunderbird, mozilla.org is also developing another mailclient, based on Qualcomm's discontinued Eudora, now known as the "Penelope" project. It is foreseen as standalone mail app and as extension for thunderbird, though I still do not understand why mozilla keeps two horses running on the email race track. The Penelope beta version is from 8-31-2007 but it's future is as unknown as Thunderbird's. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9773282-39.html Didier >>So the mozilla crew has thrown in the towel on email clients? > >It's complex. >See this from July: >http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/email_futures.html >and these comments: >http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/thunderbird_google_question.html >and this from September: >http://www.news.com/Mozilla-tries-Firefox-recipe-with-Thunderbird/2100-1012_3-6208483.html >We shall see what happens. As of this instant, Thunderbird is in stasis.