On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, at 1:49 AM, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
> 
> 
> On 26/01/18 19:39, Anthony via luv-main wrote:
> > Is Thunderbird getting active development these days (did I misread
> > awhile back it'd been kiiiinda orphaned at some stage?)
> 
> Yes, sadly TB doesn't get anywhere near the love it deserves.  I can't
> understand why so many people are so happy to use Lookout (as an MUA and
> via web) or Gmail -- don't they care at all about privacy and seucrity?
> 
> I think that TB was "almost" orphaned, but it hasn't been; still it is
> not getting much real support from Mozilla whom seem to care only about
> their 57+ browser....

Mozilla hired developers for Thunderbird last year and are continuing to hire:

> These four staff members are just the beginning. The project is currently in 
> the process of 
> hiring developers to address some technical debt, fix some sore points in the 
> software and 
> transition the codebase from a mix of C++, JavaScript, XUL and XPCOM to be 
> increasingly based
> on web technologies.

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/12/new-thunderbird-releases-and-new-thunderbird-staff/

https://twitter.com/mozthunderbird

Regards,
Graeme
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