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Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
- alecsm 1y ago> The upcoming email hosting service from Thunderbird will support IMAP, SMTP and JMAP out of the box Is there any email hosting out there with support for JMAP?
- alibrarydweller 1y agoFastmail has had it for a while.
- TkTech 1y agoI'd hope so, they kinda made it :)
- newscracker 1y agoAFAIK, only Fastmail (which was the creator of JMAP).
- sevkih 1y agoAlso https://stalw.art/ https://stalw.art/
- abound 1y agoStalwart is a mail server program, not a live email server you can pay someone money to use. One can of course use Stalwart to run a hosted email service.
- sevkih 1y agohttps://stalw.art/managed-email/ https://stalw.art/managed-email/ > Let us handle the complexities of your email infrastructure with our comprehensive managed email server service.
- abound 1y agoThat's fair! I didn't know they were offering that. I think it's a recent development -- it's not generally available ("contact us"), and it seems more focused at enterprise-type deployments than end-user mail that your typical Fastmail/Protonmail/etc. But for the original question: > Is there any email hosting out there with support for JMAP? Stalwart really isn't a practical answer, at least yet.
- lb_ 1y agoThundermail uses Stalwart
- PopAlongKid 1y agoI much prefer POP, as I only send and receive emails on my desktop computer and I want to decide when I fetch new emails. Is there any way to make IMAP work more like POP?
- Jaxan 1y agoJust disable any automatic fetching. IMAP is not pushing mails to you, but the client regularly pulls.
- homebrewer 1y agofdm, imapsync, lots of similar alternatives. Synchronize email to your machine and then use any MUA, or even several of them, to read it from a local directory (Thunderbird also works AFAIK). They can also remove email from the remote and keep just the local copy. Pretty much 1:1 with POP. I've been using this setup (with fdm) for probably more than a decade.
- sylens 1y agoI would hope this starts building momentum outside of Fastmail and maybe we see support added to clients like Apple Mail
- mnmalst 1y ago> These services come with real costs, especially storage and bandwidth. Charging for them helps ensure that users who benefit from these tools help cover their cost, instead of donors footing the bill. This is the best way to monetize the extra sevices imo.
- Animats 1y agoI don't want their extra services. Just a local email client. I already have servers. Do not want to have to have a "Thunderbird account" in the "cloud", with overreaching terms of service and privacy terms that weaken over time. Mozilla tried this with "Pocket", then gave up. But as part of Pocket integration, Firefox bookmarks were made less useful. Wonder what will be enshittified in Thunderbird to force people to the "pro" services.
- jraph 1y agoI'm sure you can still go on without the extra services, and you can still donate if you want to. I see no reason for Thunderbird to be enshitified. Thunderbird is also not Mozilla anymore.
- mnmalst 1y agoI agree fully but Thunderbird is operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, so while Thunderbird is part of the broader Mozilla family, it operates independently and is managed as its own entity. They left Mozilla at some point but later joined again.
- defraudbah 1y agogateway timeout :\
- nalinidash 1y agosite down, archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250822103720/https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/tbpro-august-2025-update/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250822103720/https://blog.thun...
- mnmalst 1y agoSite works for me but a backup link can't hurt.
- newscracker 1y agoHere’s the link for anyone wanting to join the waitlist for Thundermail (the service): https://www.thundermail.com/ https://www.thundermail.com/ I really hope this takes off well and provides some funding for the Thunderbird project too. Currently the only way to monetarily support Thunderbird is through donations (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/ https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/ ).
- jannes 1y ago> [...] support Thunderbird is through donations I doubt donations to MZLA Technologies Corporation will reach the Thunderbird project in any meaningful way. They'll just use it to pay their executive salaries.
- josteink 1y agoOr support radical activist groups unrelated to software or technology. Absolutely bonkers.
- paulryanrogers 1y agoLike?
- josteink 1y agoSource: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest... I know people here don’t like Bryan Lunduke, but besides the opinions added, this is factual, sourced reporting.
- omnimus 1y agoThat kinda proves they would spend it on executive salaries. As the spend on "radical groups" in the article is almost nothing compared to salaries of their management.
- yogorenapan 1y agoI find this totally reasonable. I think it's a good way to fund open source. I just hope this doesn't create any perverse incentives to make self hosting harder than necessary
- perihelions 1y agoPrevious thread on the initial product announcement, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560885 ("Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)"—4 months ago, 341 comments)
- NoSalt 1y agoI'm hoping this doesn't mean that "regular" Thunderbird will be phased out. :-/
- MissTake 1y agoThis is about the Thundermail service - not the email client.
- ilvez 1y agoAdding these additional subscription services will never compromise the features, stability or functionality our users are accustomed to in the free Thunderbird desktop and mobile applications. These services come with real costs, especially storage and bandwidth. Charging for them helps ensure that users who benefit from these tools help cover their cost, instead of donors footing the bill.
- TiredOfLife 1y ago> Adding these additional subscription services will never compromise the features, stability or functionality our users are accustomed to in the free Thunderbird desktop and mobile applications. Has this been true ever?
- sunaookami 1y agoAny info on pricing for Thundermail?
- mnmalst 1y agoI haven't seen any information on that.
- nik736 1y agoI am still waiting for the announced redesign in 2022 [0] :-) [0]: https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-look/ https://www.omglinux.com/major-thunderbird-redesign-early-lo...
- lol768 1y agoIt's such a shame that what was shipped there was so far off what the designs had suggested might be possible [1] Two years ago we were told: > We're going to build it right, and that means rewriting large pieces of our codebase. We'll ship the remaining stuff when they are ready. I'm not sure how much more of the designs have actually been realised since then? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664515
- andrepd 1y ago> No menus > Cryptic icons with no text > Optimised for looking good on a screenshot and not for actual user interaction No thanks :)
- mixmastamyk 1y agoIndeed, and 16:9 monitors are passé already.
- bee_rider 1y agoSomeone should really make a UI where three black lines is a skewmorphic grippy surface (like you see on steps sometimes) to move the window around, just to mess with the hamburger menu devotees.
- jacobgkau 1y agoIt's mostly already available, just not the default: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/08/make-thunderbird-yours-how-to-get-the-thunderbird-115-supernova-look/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/08/make-thunderbird-yours-... I followed the steps in that blog post and was able to mostly get there. I have a bit less padding between folders than the mock-up showed (which seems like a theme thing rather than a configuration item), and I don't have profile pictures in the message list.
- seemaze 1y agoGreat to see Thunderbird sponsoring the previous fork of Firefox Send[0]. I employed that for a short time and thoroughly enjoyed it! [0] https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send
- viscountchocula 1y agoI wonder if there's a plan to prevent the spam/malware/csam issues of the previous iteration of Send. Maybe that it's a paid service will help stop that?
- Pxtl 1y agoI hope we'll see them set up as an Identity Provider for oAUTH/SAML/OpenID/whatever other stupid plethora of single-sign-on protocols there are. It's disappointing to always see Facebook and Google for single-sign-on providers, never a privacy-respecting OSS org.
- clickety_clack 1y agoThe @thundermail.com domain name is pretty solid. The domain name is an underrated aspect of email services IMO.
- kayson 1y agoThe Thunderbird Pro Add-on Repo [1] doesn't really make it clear - if I want to self host Appointment and Send, do I need to build the addon myself and change the endpoints? Or is there some kind of config? 1. https://github.com/thunderbird/tbpro-add-on https://github.com/thunderbird/tbpro-add-on
- sherr 1y agoI've used Thunderbird ever since it was released as a standalone mail client and like it - although it has sometimes been a rocky experience in the past. I use it now with Fastmail as my mail provider. One thing I might be interested in is the "contacts" side of mail. In an effort to move away from too much Google, I ditched Google Contacts and host my own CardDAV using "Radicale" [0]. This works, and I also access it via DAVx on Android. But would a CardDAV server be something worthwhile via Thundermail? Or perhaps too small a service itself? Maybe part of their scheduling tool "Appointment"? I might prefer having this hosted elsewhere than in my house. [0] https://radicale.org/v3.html https://radicale.org/v3.html
- pjerem 1y agoIs there a reason why you don’t use FastMail’s CalDav server ? https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Server-names-and-ports https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Se...
- josteink 1y agoAnd CardDAV too: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/carddav-your-contacts-everywhere-you-need-them/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/carddav-your-contacts-everywhe...
- sherr 1y agoI had to think to recall the reason. I had a support ticket at Fastmail about this in 2024 - I wanted to host my own CardDAV server and have Fastmail use and sync to this. This was not possible - I was told that two-way sync with other services was a "calendar only feature". I might re-visit.
- uncircle 1y agoDo you like Thunderbird better than Fastmail’s UI? I’ve always felt TB to be clunky, outdated with an ecosystem of abandoned extensions that haven’t been updated since GMail got popular, but I haven’t tried it in the last 3 years to see if it got better.
- lquidfire 1y ago> The upcoming email hosting service from Thunderbird will support IMAP, SMTP and JMAP out of the box Ahh, will Thunderbird finally see full JMAP support? Hooray! For the self-hosters (other than those using Stallwart): Cyrus does, of course, support JMAP (it's what Fastmail uses); Dovecot has apparently no interest / no manpower to really implement it themselves, but are willing to take a contribution[0]. One day I am going to configure Cyrus just for JMAP. [0]: https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.org/message/2Z4FSZWEEUGK3LYPTXG5PGZFU32FJX6I/ https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.o...
- sylens 1y agoIs this the first confirmation we have that the Thunderbird app will be getting JMAP support since Thundermail will support it?
- godelski 1y agoI actually really like this. Seems like a good way to sustain the platform. Everything is free and open source, so you can run all the services on your own if you want, but allows users to pay to outsource that work and get direct support. Sounds a lot like the Red Hat model, which has been successful. I also *absolutely love* how transparent they are about future development. It's nice to hear about what features are being prioritized and what are still in the planning phase. I wish this was more common. I like that everything is optional. Nothing is forced on people. I know Mozilla gets these complaints a lot and while there is some validity to them it's not like this also isn't true about any other platform... Plus, most complaints are about optional things... I'd love to see integration with Relay[0]. I already use this as it is a big help to reduce spam. Integrate with bitwarden and I can give every website a unique email and password. I hate that this is a thing that needs be done, but it is a big help and worth 2 beers a year. I've actually always been surprised more people don't use Thunderbird. It's got problems, but I've had fewer problems with it than GMail, Apple Mail, or Outlook. Some "features" on those platforms even feel hostile[1]. Hell, just the filtering capabilities make a massive improvement[1]. I mean there's of junk mail I catch this way that none of the other services do. I'm all for advanced spam filtering but come on, if I can catch it with "[To or CC] + [contains] + [<name>]" then you've done fucked up[3]. [0] https://relay.firefox.com/ https://relay.firefox.com/ [1] I never understood how people fall for those Paypal bitcoin scams until I saw one of those emails on my iPhone (and then checked Apple Mail to see if it was the same). Straight up rendered the PDF in browser giving no indication that it was a PDF and not text (GMail doesn't do this). I mean I don't have a Paypal account but I could see how my grandma could fall for that. Plus, they hide the addresses where in thunderbird this is much more apparent. [2] One favorite filter is those "logged in from a new device". I get the toast notification on my machine (which I want) but it gets pushed to another folder so doesn't litter my inbox. Similar idea for other things like newsletters and email that borderlines junk (or is literal junk and hard to capture). [3] These are LLM generated emails where the source is drastically different from what renders. Google support just told me to click "Report Spam" despite me telling them I've been doing that for a year and get these emails a few times a month...