Previously on State of the Thunder, we talked about how we created our desktop roadmap for 2025 and 2026. In this installment, we're diving into how we prioritize work on the desktop app and how we're trying to get better at completing our high-priority items. If you've ever wondered, "When is that feature going to land?" this State of the Thunder is worth listening to!

In the latest State of the Thunder, we're talking all about our mobile apps, currently on Android and coming soon to mobile. Sr. Manager of Mobile Engineering Philipp Kewisch leads the discussion on the the roadmap, responding to frequently requested features, and our predictions for the iOS Alpha.

In our second State of the Thunder, we expand on the purpose of these meetings and go back to our roadmap. From there, we talk about bugs and stability, discussing how to tackle the backlogs of bugs in Bugzilla and whether Thunderbird is more or less stable now than in years past.We also chat about how to improve collaboration between MZLA and the Thunderbird Council, and finish with technical discussion on the address book's SQLite database and the Thunderbird CLI.

In our inaugural State of the Thunder, Alessandro Castellani, Director of Desktop and Mobile apps, leads a discussion on the 2025 desktop roadmap with members of the Thunderbird team and Council. Beyond features, the chat covers our users, our values, and our commitment to working in the open.

The Thunderbird team has resumed our monthly Community Office Hours sessions, and the most recent was an open forum Q&A that focused largely on K-9 Mail and Thunderbird for Android. We also answered some of your questions about Thunderbird for Desktop, including Exchange support (it's coming)! Here's a lightly edited version of that session for you to listen to.

If you have questions for us to answer in a future Office Hours sessions, just send an email to [email protected].

00:00 Intro
02:00 Exchange Support for Android?
03:22 Add-ons For Android? 
06:30 Upgrade Path From K-9 Mail?
12:06 Android: CalDAV and CardDAV?
16:11 Mozilla Sync & Thunderbird for Android?
22:06 Exchange Support on Desktop?
24:35 Proper Threaded & Conversations View?
30:55 Full Sender Name Column?
33:03 What About Thunderbird Webmail?

The Thunderbird team is a remote-first, globally distributed group, so it made perfect sense to devote an episode to Remote Work! Join Heather, Chris, and Jason for some useful tips and tricks to make your daily remote work more enjoyable and more productive. We also include tips from ThunderCast listeners Pedro and Mike, who emailed us at [email protected]. (You can do the same if something's on your mind.)

Plus: An inside look at the upcoming Thunderbird Send service, some fascinating origin stories, and geeky Raspberry Pi solutions for weather and BBQ.

Software & Articles We Mentioned:

• Cherrytree
• draw.io
• Synergy
• The Pomodoro Technique
• Working on Distributed Teams at Mozilla
• Contribute To Thunderbird Without Knowing How To Code

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The Thunderbird team is back from the Mozilla All-Hands event, and we're overwhelmed in the most positive way. In addition to the happy vibes we're all feeling from meeting most of our colleagues in person for the first time, we have a lot of takeaways to share. in this episode Ryan, Jason, and Alex talk about how Mozilla is building AI tools for the good of humanity, and how our perception of AI has changed dramatically. Plus, the problem with the "hey Mozilla, just build a browser" argument. 

Episode #4 is light on actual Thunderbird talk, and more focused on Mozilla as an organization, the current state of the internet, and the future of AI. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed discussing it! 

Have a question or comment for us? Just email [email protected]! 

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Hello Thunderbird family, and welcome back to a long-overdue episode of the ThunderCast! Ryan, Alex, and Jason get together to talk about the new features and improvements in Thunderbird 115 "Supernova." But they also share WHY those features were developed, and what's being worked on right now. Plus, Ryan shares some huge news about the future of the Thunderbird Project! It's a casual, unscripted, and informative behind-the-scenes conversation.

USEFUL LINKS:

• What's New In 115 (Use Micah's awesome slider!)
• Why We're Rebuilding Thunderbird
• Thunderbird on Mastodon
• Thunderbird on Twitter
• Thunderbird on LinkedIn

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Welcome back to the ThunderCast, the official podcast of Mozilla Thunderbird! In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome our first special guest: Mike Conley, Principal Software developer at Mozilla. Mike is a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described "pre-internet phenomenon" among many other things.

Creators & Guests

We also asked Mike about some of the more underrated features of Firefox. Plus, we get the community involved by asking you which Thunderbird features more people should know about.

Hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Finally, here are some of the links we mentioned:

1) uBlock Add-on for Thunderbird:

• https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/ublock-origin/

2) The Joy of Coding:

• https://mikeconley.ca/joc
• https://www.twitch.tv/mikeconley_dot_ca
• Recordings on YouTube

3) Neocities, making the internet fun again

• https://neocities.org

4) Follow us on Mastodon: 

• Thunderbird: https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird
• Mike: https://mastodon.online/@[email protected]
• Ryan: https://mastodon.social/@ryanleesipes
• Jason: https://layer8.space/@killyourfm

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Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast! It's an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, alongside community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source world. We can't wait for you to listen! 

Here are some of the highlights from Episode 1:

• What to expect on future episodes of ThunderCast
• We're hiring!
• Is Thunderbird still part of Mozilla?
• Alex starts a band, Ryan is building a keyboard, Jason's island adventures
• 4 years of "invisible work" to prepare for Supernova
• Thunderbird on Android... and iOS