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Thunderbird Pro Enters Production Testing Ahead of $9/Month Launch (thunderbird.net)

(Friday November 21, 2025 @05:40PM (msmash) from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.)


Thunderbird Pro has moved its Thundermail email service [1]into production testing as the open-source email client's subscription bundle of additional services prepares for an Early Bird beta launch at $9 per month that will include email hosting, encrypted file sharing through Send, and scheduling via Appointment.

Internal team members are now testing Thundermail accounts and the new Thunderbird Pro add-on automatically adds Thundermail accounts for users who sign up through it. The project migrated its data hosting from the Americas to Germany and the EU.

Appointment received a major visual redesign being applied across all three services while Send completed an external security review and moved from its standalone add-on into the unified Thunderbird Pro add-on. The new website at tb.pro is live for signups and account management.



[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-pro-november-2025-update/


This bird won't fly (Score:2)

by haruchai ( 17472 )

best of luck to them sincerely

Not good (Score:3)

by MBGMorden ( 803437 )

I can't see them selling email accounts for $9 per month. That's just too small of a service for that much money. $1.50 per month maybe (paid annually to lessen CC processing fees), but not $9 per month.

Re: Not good (Score:3, Informative)

by melizeche ( 2576011 )

9$ per 15 email accounts it's not bad imho, Google charges that per account

Re: (Score:2)

by DaTrueDave ( 992134 ) *

Proton is $7 a month and offers so much more, but seems to have fairly slow adoption. Considering the market penetration of the Thunderbird email client, I don't see that they're offering anything that will get them more than a tiny sliver of the market.

there's hope (Score:2)

by melizeche ( 2576011 )

If they market it right this could be an interesting alternative to Google Workspace mail for small companies ðY'

Re: (Score:2)

by jrnvk ( 4197967 )

> If they market it right this could be an interesting alternative to Google Workspace mail for small companies ðY'

At the current price point, it's already DOA for that purpose.

Could be a good thing? (Score:2)

by eriks ( 31863 )

I've been a Thunderbird user since forever ago, and I've only had two big issues in all that time, and both instances I think were due to changes in the mailbox/account format on disk, and they were fixed fairly quickly, so major kudos to the devs for that.

I've noticed a drop in the overall quality of the software in the past couple years, so hopefully this gives them an infusion of cash to get things back on track. I guess there's always Betterbird. I was just looking at switching yesterday, since I curr

lol (Score:1)

by ozzymodus12 ( 8111534 )

$9 for something I can get for free.

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