"On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Firefox. While the Mozilla Foundation supports a number of projects, its taxable subsidiary the Mozilla Corp. is responsible for only Firefox and Thunderbird. However, it has become increasingly clear that Firefox is the priority. The resources allocated to Firefox dwarf those allocated to Thunderbird and recent projects such as the initiative to improve Mozilla support exclude Thunderbird."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Even if you don't have any illegal activities to hide, your e-mail may still contain very sensitive information.
What do you think will happen to you if one of your google mail leaks information on a new product you company is working on to one of its competitors.
What if you are applying for a new job, would you like your current employer to know.
Even if the mail isn't sensitive, what if you happen to get ill, and unable to check your mail for a few months and google decides to delete your account as you are no longer an active user.
This is why mail better stays on server under your control. I'm not saying that mail can't leak from your own servers, but if you are in control you can decide on what security is needed.
Besides, real e-mail clients like Thunderbird is much better to handle large amount of mail than e.g. google mail. For one thing it allows for you to encrypt sensitive stuff.
Member since:2005-08-11
"I mean, what do they have to hide about their email (unless its something involving a money transaction)?"
That's enough reason right there. I can reasonably trust my bank to only screw me in certain, definable ways, I have no idea how Google or Yahoo could screw me, and therefore cannot prepare for it.
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2006-11-24
I've never really used an email client, TBH. From my first time using the Internet, I've used various webmail services, not actual email. I tried Thunderbird once, and only used it to download excess email from my Yahoo mail account, which I only used for subscribing to a bunch of Yahoo Groups email lists. Of course, then I heard about Gmail, started using it, and the rest is history.
Email clients were never useful to me anyways, and those who are that stuck on email clients are mere relics of the 80's and 90's who are still scared of someone peeping onto their "private email" and finding out about their...I dunno, Swiss Bank accounts filled with Nazi gold reserves? Their underground militia fight against the Feds to create a kingdom in the Rockies?
I mean, what do they have to hide about their email (unless its something involving a money transaction)?