The Mozilla email client accounts for 0.5% of all emails opened across all devices in 2019 according to Litmus Email Analytics. It is aimed that with this move, the Thunderbird project will be able to hire easily, act more swiftly, and pursue ideas that were previously not possible under the Mozilla Foundation. This strategic move will allow the project to collect revenue through partnerships and non-charitable donations, which in turn can be used to cover the costs of new products and services. The change of corporate leadership will not only allow the Thunderbird project more flexibility and agility but will also allow the team to explore offering our users products and services that were not possible under the Mozilla Foundation. To ensure future operational success, the Thunderbird team is moving to MZLA Technologies Corporation. Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation.
In previous years, the donations from Thunderbird users gave the project a room to grow under the leadership of the Mozilla Foundation. This will not impact Thunderbird’s day-to-day activities or mission: Thunderbird will still remain free and open-source, with the same release schedule and people driving the project.” This move has been in the works for a while as Thunderbird has grown in donations, staff, and aspirations. Last 28 January 2020, an announcement was made by Philipp Kewisch of the Thunderbird team: “As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation.
When Mozilla Corporation (makers of the Firefox web browser) decided to cut its support to Thunderbird in 2017, the free and open-source, cross-platform email client’s future remained uncertain and unclear until the last week of January 2020.
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