Mailing with Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a cross-platform, free, and open source email, news, RSS, and chat client, developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It uses the XUL interface language. XML User Interface Language (XUL) is an XML-based user interface language developed by Mozilla. XUL works as an XML dialect, providing graphical user interfaces such as web pages. XUL is not a public standard.
On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released and received over 500,000 downloads in its first 3 days of release, and 1 million in 10 days.
On July 6, 2012, Mozilla announced that the company was dropping the Thunderbird development priority because the ongoing effort to expand Thunderbird’s feature set was unsuccessful. On December 1, 2015, Mozilla’s CEO announced that the development of Thunderbird should be separated from Firefox.
Recently, Thunderbird announced on its official blog that one of the same Mozilla subsidiaries (MZLA Technologies Corporation) will...