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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by dboreham on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:09PM (#14162294)
Hmm. I can just about remember Jim Barksdale personally telling every employee that the new E2E encryption feature (PEM probably?) in Messenger had to be dog food tested. In 1997.
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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by WalterBright on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:24PM (#14162660)
Unencrypted email is like mailing all your correspondence on postcards.
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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by carussell on Friday April 21, 2017 @01:12PM (#14167377)
The Thunderbird codebase has nothing to do with the Netscape codebase you're referring to.
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Re:Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird bas... by dboreham on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:22PM (#14169527)
Interesting. Are you sure? I didn't remember a big re-write ever happening, and after poking around in the current codebase for a while I see lots of old code and familiar names. Are you referring to just the UI? The address book code (the part I had something to do with back then) looks very similar.
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