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I think a lot of people are forgetting that there is still a community developing it since Mozilla stopped "updating" it, beyond maintenance, in 2012. The product isn't dying, just will no longer be Mozilla backed. I assume that maintenance, like ongoing updates, will be passed to the community and hopefully another company steps up to back the project.

Repo for Thunderbird: https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central

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Thanks for highlighting the repo!

I too had heard development had stopped and misconstrued that to mean all development.

Now I'm wondering if there are any issues I might be able to help fix. I still use Thunderbird so if I can help keep it alive, I'd like to.

As parent pointed out, most of the alternatives are worse.

No problem. I think everyone got out their pitchforks without reading Mozilla's announcement and looking at the repo.

There are always issues to help out on. Here's a bit more info on contributing [0]. I imagine it won't change much as the project is officially handed off to the community. It's largely led by the community anyways at this point.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction

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