Finally, some real news about the fate of Thunderbird. David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging CEO, discusses the details in his blog:

Today we’ve announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the entity I’ve been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it’s a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications. We’ve put up the essential information about the organization on the website, but I have more room for background here.

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