So Let Me Get This Straight...

[Emilio Lizardo]

Thunderbird was started to fix the problem of having two unrelated applications - web browser, email - welded together into one process under the original Mozilla.

So we now have Thunderbird - two unrelated applications - email, newsreader - welded together into one process?

[tve]

no, Mozilla's Mail/News is now separated into a standalone Mail/News application, where's the problem? are you suggesting they should now also split Mozilla's Mail/News into two separate applications?

[shill]

Just ignore him He is a Mozilla Newbie

[Thumper]

So we now have Thunderbird - two unrelated applications - email, newsreader - welded together into one process?

I suppose you want mail sending and mail recieving to be split into two separate applications too, given that they are unrelated?

- Chris

[Emilio Lizardo]

Gee, looks like Slashdot and MozillaZine have quite an overlap of posters from the responses in this thread.

Back to Eudora...

[Hooded One]

Newsreaders and mail clients use the same type of interface. Therefore, it would actually be more bloat to create a separate application with the exact same interface only to access a different protocol.

[warenhaus]

So we now have Thunderbird - two unrelated applications - email, newsreader - welded together into one process?

I suppose you want mail sending and mail recieving to be split into two separate applications too, given that they are unrelated?
- Chris

sometimes i do: quickmail: http://pyric.org/qm/
(handy for the "mailto:"s)

[Tony]

So we now have Thunderbird - two unrelated applications - email, newsreader - welded together into one process?

We should call them Thunderbird 1 and Thunderbird 2 which will still leave room for three more sub-applications .