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Story: 'Mozilla Messaging' gives Thunderbird a boost

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Eudora and Mozilla may collaborate

Your Talkback question was very timely, as we posted the story before I spoke to David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging chief executive, just now. (We couldn't speak before, as he is based in the US)

I read your Talkback to him, as it's an interesting question. He told me that Version 8 of Eudora, which is what the Qualcomm Eudora team is working on, is based on Thunderbird. They are also building a Thunderbird add-on.

Ascher said that it would make sense for Mozilla and Qualcomm to collaborate on building email search features, but that at the moment the products didn't look as though they headed in the same direction.

"We're happy to collaborate [with Qualcomm] on code, but the two products have different directions at the moment," said Ascher. "They are as interested in improving search capabilities as we are - we'll collaborate on that naturally."

You heard it here first.

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