Hello again from the Thunderbird development team! As autumn settles in, we’re balancing the steady pace of ongoing projects with some forward-looking planning for 2026. Alongside coding and testing, some of our recent attention has gone into budgets, roadmaps, and setting priorities for the year ahead. It’s not the most glamorous work, but it’s essential […]
Thunderbird will support Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) natively, all written in exciting Rust! Read more to find out about our Rusty adventures, the technical nature of the EWS implementation, and what is on the horizon!
Thunderbird is getting a bit Rusty, but in a good way! In our monthly Development Digests, we’ve been updating the community about enabling Rust in Thunderbird to implement native support for Exchange. Now, we’d like to invite you for a chat with Team Thunderbird and the developers who are making this change possible. As always, send your questions in advance to officehours@thunderbird.net!
We know the Thunderbird community has LOTS of questions! We get them on Mozilla Support, Mastodon, and the site formerly known as Twitter. They pop up everywhere, from the Thunderbird subreddit to the teeming halls of conferences like FOSDEM and SCaLE. During our March Community Office Hours, we took the most frequently asked questions to Team Thunderbird and got you some answers.
If you’ve been wondering how the work to turn K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android is coming along, you’ve found the right place. This blog post contains a report of our development activities in March 2024.
Automated testing increases the software quality by minimizing the number of bugs accidentally introduced by changes to the code. And we want to find those bugs before our users do!
After a 2-year development cycle, Thunderbird 3.0 finally released in December 2009 with a bunch of new feature milestones. Step into the Thunderbird Time Machine and let’s revisit this groundbreaking version.
Last year we took ownership of the Thunderbird Flatpak, and it has been our officially recommended package for Linux users. However, we are expanding our horizons to make sure the Thunderbird Snap experience is officially supported too. We at Thunderbird are team “free software”, independent of the packaging technology.
In this month’s Thunderbird Development Digest, Alex updates us on Rust and Exchange, list management, and successful ESMification.
