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Supporting the email provider of hundreds of millions of people with a feature that should be common for all is somehow bad for the future of Thunderbird? Not

• dmos62 7y ago
  If you put gmail features into TB, it will become a gmail client, not an email client. The reason why all email servers and clients can talk to each other at the moment is because it's been well standardized, as opposed to, say, instant messaging. I'm all for improving email, but if done irresponsibly it will introduce division due to incompatibility and damage the ecosystem.
  • jacobsenscott 7y ago
    This is also the reason we can't have nice things using open standards, like labels. Once everything is tied to an ossified but open standard that's the end of the road as far as innovation is concerned.
    • dmos62 7y ago
      It's not about openness, but about federation.
    • JetSpiegel 7y ago
      Google could have tried to standardize IMAP2, but they didn't. Now only JMAP exists as a more modern mail standard.