Mozilla should ignore these arguments. Stand-alone email clients other than Outlook (for corporate use with MS servers) are basically dead these days; they don

Mozilla should ignore these arguments. Stand-alone email clients other than Outlook (for corporate use with MS servers) are basically dead these days; they don't need any more development by a well-funded company. If some volunteers want to step up and work on Thunderbird, more power to them, but Mozilla needs to concentrate on the browser and nothing else.