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Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services (thunderbird.topicbox.com)
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It is our goal to eventually have a similar offering so that a 100% open source, freedom-respecting alternative ecosystem is available for those who want it.

Thunderbird Appointment

Appointment is a scheduling tool that allows you to send a link to someone, allowing them to pick a time on your calendar to meet

Thunderbird Send

Send is the rebirth of Firefox Send

Thunderbird Assist

Assist is an experiment that, through a partnership with Flower AI will allow users to take advantage of AI features. The hope is that processing can be done on devices that can support the models

Thundermail

Thundermail is an email service. We want to provide email accounts to those that love Thunderbird, and we believe that we are capable of providing a better service than the other providers out there, that aligns with our values

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Having consistent uptime and not locking broken IMAP behind a paywall would beat Tuta.

I have a proton subscription (although I am in the process of switching to fastmail since that better suits my needs) but I think "privacy respecting email" is a fool's errand and increasingly a red flag. In a lot of ways, it is no different than a VPN: They can say whatever the hell they want. If you are in a situation where you are trusting them then you have already made a mistake.

Proton et al ARE awesome because you can get a mostly functional email for free without any other identification (mostly functional in that a lot of services put the proton domains on a spam list... because anyone can get a burner). But if you are sending ANYTHING sensitive, you want to be encrypting that. And you want to do that in a way that is not asking the company to do it for you.

So as long as thundermail doesn't require a phone number or some other form of personal ID to make an account: f'ing A. After that it is just a question of their support for IMAP et al (highly probable considering... Thunderbird) and what it costs to use your own domains.