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<body><div>On Thu, Dec 5, 2013, at 09:16 AM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12/04/2013 04:54 PM, Kent James
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Bron, could you clarify your affiliation, and what your
relationship to Thunderbird is? Your public information says that
you are with Fastmail, who in turn is owned by Opera, which is a
direct competitor of Mozilla with both browser and email products.<br></div>
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Fastmail is no longer owned by Opera as of September-ish:<br></div>
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<a href="http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/">http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/</a><br></div>
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<div>Yep - my relationship with Thunderbird is pretty much as an interested third party. Having better IMAP clients is a big win both for FastMail in a commercial sense, and also for the open source Cyrus IMAPd server, of which I'm on the stearing board and one of the most prolific programmers in recent years.<br></div>
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<div>As for FastMail - since the purchase, I'm now a part owner and one of the directors. We sell a mail service of which high quality, reliable IMAP service is a major feature.<br></div>
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<div>Aside from generally improving Thunderbird (my wife uses it - I usually use our web interface because dogfood and all that), it would be nice for you to have better IMAP support so I don't get so many support tickets for your bugs :)<br></div>
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<div>The only code I have actually written for Thunderbird was the initial version of COMPRESS=DEFLATE support, which I did when we added support on our servers. I wanted to have a widely deployed client using it - both for bandwidth savings and so the code path got some serious testing.<br></div>
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<div>Regards,<br></div>
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<div>Bron.<br></div>
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<div class="signature"> Bron Gondwana<br></div>
<div class="signature"> brong@fastmail.fm<br></div>
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