{"id":2158,"date":"2011-08-10T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:13","slug":"its-official-thunderbird-will-be-the-default-e-mail-client-for-ubuntu-oneiric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/its-official-thunderbird-will-be-the-default-e-mail-client-for-ubuntu-oneiric\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official:  Thunderbird will be the default e-mail client for Ubuntu Oneiric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word has just come down from Canonical:\u00a0 <em>Thunderbird will be the default e-mail client in Ubuntu Oneiric!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Woo!\u00a0 And there was much rejoicing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BreakdancingBear.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/its-official-thunderbird-will-be-the-default-e-mail-client-for-ubuntu-oneiric\/breakdancingbear\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BreakdancingBear.gif\" data-orig-size=\"163,153\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Breakdancing Bear\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BreakdancingBear.gif\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2159\" title=\"Breakdancing Bear\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BreakdancingBear.gif\" alt=\"Breakdancing Bear\" width=\"321\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, you might think this news is a bit late.\u00a0 Thunderbird has been set as the default e-mail client on the past two Oneiric alphas.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this old news?<\/p>\n<p>Well, kinda, yeah.\u00a0 But the thing is, those first alphas were just to get a sense of how Thunderbird would work as the default client, and to gather feedback.\u00a0 At a moments notice, Canonical could have backed it out and switched it back to Evolution.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;ve given their thumbs up, and they&#8217;re fully on board.<\/p>\n<p>So, at the risk of repeating myself:\u00a0<strong> come early October, Thunderbird will be shipped by default!<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Woop!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE (Aug 10, 2:41PM EST)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I forgot to mention that this would not have been possible without the enormous efforts of both <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisccoulson\">Chris Coulson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/andreasn.se\/\">Andreas Nilsson<\/a>!<strong>\u00a0 You&#8217;re both awesome!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word has just come down from Canonical:\u00a0 Thunderbird will be the default e-mail client in Ubuntu Oneiric! Woo!\u00a0 And there was much rejoicing! Now, you might think this news is a bit late.\u00a0 Thunderbird has been set as the default e-mail client on the past two Oneiric alphas.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this old news? Well, kinda, yeah.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[861,862],"tags":[930,969,967,947,954,968,35,949,867,705],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla-2","category-thunderbird","tag-canonical","tag-client","tag-default","tag-eds","tag-evolution","tag-mail","tag-mozilla","tag-oneiric","tag-thunderbird-2","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-yO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}