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Mozilla calling it quits on Thunderbird
This article does not speak well for ThunderBird mail and also probably for my favorite TenFourBird.

No it does not bode well. It will be a tough choice to make in the future for my business accounts. We use Google Apps for business email, but Gmail's threading is unacceptable (perhaps this has changed since I looked a year ago).

I am considering testing Postbox (http://www.postbox-inc.com/) as a replacement. Apple mail would be great if it were more customizable too.
 
I don't think it's going to implode and mysteriously disappear from every computer just because they're not putting more money into it. I think it's going to be continued by the users, like the hope! :)
 
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