Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail

Curious how far they intend to take the "email hosting service" side. Will it be limited to e.g. @thundermail.com domains or similar, same as Gmail & Outlook, or will I be able to bring my own domain?

And if we can BYOD, will they let us have a catch-all? I want to be able to sign up for a service with company@mydomain, so if I get spammed I know who sold my data / got hacked and didn't admit it. I think Google Workspace and Proton are the only major email providers that support that. But the former means switching to a business account which doesn't always play nice with Google's other services, and the latter doesn't work well with other email clients (by design, of course, but I'd be worried about lock-in as a result).

Regardless, I have reservations about trusting Mozilla with webmail. The "Looking Glass" fiasco from years back showed they don't mind selling out to brands, and their current financial trouble might make them more likely to do so again. I realize the Firefox fans will downvote me for saying that, but it's a legitimate concern.

After all the bad press they got, they want to store all your email? Talk about bad timing...

Will they claim a "license" on your emails overnight too?

I'm willing to give their email service a try if that's ever a thing.

Hope it works better than my trial of their Mozilla VPN, where I couldn't even open up images on imgur due to it being excessively blocked.

I wish they would tune up the Thunderbird UI to be more usable. It won’t matter if they make a cloud version that’s just as clumsy as their desktop app.

Now that mozilla is an ad-tech company I guess they want to be able to mine your email for data just like Gmail does.

Fuck me about 15 years too late.

The switching costs for the average user is too high.

They need to roadmap private groupware, and collaboration suite.

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