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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by jamesfinlayson on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:49PM (#43564529)
I used it at a previous job that didn't have a web option for email, but for me the killer feature was that it was the only mainstream newsgroup client (the job delivered error notifications via newsgroups).
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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by xp84 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:11AM (#43565408)
> the job delivered error notifications via newsgroups

Well, now I've heard everything. This is either peak greybeard creativity, or that was a thing in like 1992 and a system has been left alone for 30+ years to just do its 90s thing. Either way I kind of love it.

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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by jamesfinlayson on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:18AM (#43565987)
Haha probably peak greybeard - the founder and his two friends had been doing Internet stuff since the mid 1990s but the code was much newer. I assume the system worked so they kept doing it. Everything was on-prem too so I guess was an easy option to make logs accessible to everyone without paying for a service.
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