Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365

Posted by bentobean 4/2/2025

Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365(www.techradar.com)

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varispeed 4/2/2025|

Mozilla is American and with what's going in the world, we need a service like Gmail served by non-US entity.

Many businesses are looking away from US based services.

If Mozilla moved headquarters to Switzerland, UK or Norway, then maybe it would make sense.

palata 4/2/2025|

There are email providers based in Switzerland. My current favourite provider is Migadu :-).

timeon 4/2/2025||

Where are the servers located?

lofaszvanitt 4/3/2025||

A bit late to the party, but it's one of the best mail clients available.

_blk 4/3/2025||

Too little, too late. Already happy with Proton since 5+ years and it keeps getting better. Enterprise mail was a mess back then, now it's doable. In 5 years it should be good.

a_bonobo 4/3/2025||

Where will this data be hosted? There's no way I'm leaking even more data into the USA with the way US politics is going.

From a different article:

>Thundermail isn’t going to use your messages to train AI, it’s not going to invade your inbox with ads, and it’s not going to harvest and sell your data.

And? We've seen with DOGE that they can just walk into any place and take your data, anyway. It's only safe if it's outside the US.

wwarner 4/3/2025||

I would be much happier to learn i could use tbird on my iphone.

FloatArtifact 4/3/2025||

When I helped people migrate to Thunderbird, the number one missing feature is simply the focused inbox provided by Gmail. Unfortunately it ends up being a deal breaker.

pgt 4/2/2025||

Never forget Mozilla’s stance on deplatforming & censorship (since scrubbed from Mozilla’s blog): https://web.archive.org/web/20210108215449/https://blog.mozi...

Avamander 4/2/2025||

Those are absolutely fair requests. I sure hope people won't forget what happened then and why.

glenstein 4/3/2025|||

Wow, I'm sorry to hear they took that down. It's a perfectly normal and rational request for accountability on January 6th, which actually I would say makes me feel more favorably about the company.

mvdtnz 4/2/2025|||

Thank you for sharing this, I was completely unaware that this was Mozilla's stance. This is shocking and disappointing to me.

DecentShoes 4/2/2025||

Jesus Christ. Maybe I will give in and switch to Chrome.

ice3 4/2/2025|

i wonder what the price will be and if it supports custom domains

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