The French military uses Thunderbird and contributes to its security features, which are claimed to match the requirements for NATO's closed messaging system.
As of 2006 Dorner was one of Qualcomm engineers tasked with shifting Eudora to a Mozilla Thunderbird base.
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The teams are styled after the mascots of various free software projects, such as GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, KDE, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Suse, Workrave, NuFW, SPIP, and Bugzilla.
Mozilla Thunderbird was originally launched as Minotaur, shortly after Phoenix (the original name for Mozilla Firefox); the project failed to gain momentum.