I use Thunderbird from the beginning when it was still named Firebird (I switched from Outlook Express). I think that it's a good product because it continues to do the job since more than 20 years. Me too I don't understand the negative comments. It's free (MPL license), it's packaged by Debian. All good. I don't care about Mozilla.

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Skywalker13 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just check something because my memory as faults... Firebird was the name of Firefox and the mail client was called something like Mozilla mail or something else.

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CamouflagedKiwi 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It was originally Minotaur (when the browser was Phoenix), then they were Firebird and Thunderbird, until the browser renamed to avoid a name clash.

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Foobar8568 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I really don't remember (+quick check) Firebird for the email client, do you have source for this?

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wisidisi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Predecessor of Firefox was Firebird, and before that it was even called Phoenix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Name_changes

	▲	Foobar8568 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		So it wasn't used before Thunderbird, that was the point of OP and myself. We were talking about the email client(!). And I was an user of firebird, the database.

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prmoustache 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Firebird was the browser's name, after phoenix and before rebranding to firefox.

	▲	Foobar8568 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		So it wasn't used before Thunderbird, that was the point of OP and myself. We were talking about the email client(!). And I was an user of firebird, the database.
	▲	dizhn an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Firebird was actually the database whose name they hijacked when they had access to AOL's legal army. Also K9Mail is now Thunderbird for Android.

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mixmastamyk 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I’ve used it since it was called Netscape Mail. ;-)