Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 released

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a heavy weight email client from the makers of popular browser Firefox, the Mozilla Group. The release marks the ever growing maturity of the product, and comes with many new features.

Windows Installer - Thunderbird now comes with an installer for Windows making it easier than ever to start using Thunderbird!

New Default Theme on Mac OS X - The new Pinstripe theme fits in with the look of Mac OS X. Also for Mac OS X users, you now get new mail notification in the system dock - v cool!

Improved Junk Mail Controls - The algorithm for the adaptive junk mail controls has been heavily redesigned to learn faster and catch more spam. Also, mail filters can now mark messages as junk.

New Brand Identity - To be consistent with the Mozilla Foudation's goal of brand identity, Thunderbird has a new logo and supporting artwork thanks to the fine work of the Mozilla Visual Identity team.

Improved IMAP support - IMAP users can now benefit from support for the IMAP IDLE command which allows the mail server to push notifications such as new mail arriving as soon as it arrives.

Improved News support - Thunderbird supports server-wide news filters that apply to all newsgroups on a server.

Improved security - Thunderbird includes Secure Password Authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.

Better Offline support - Offline support is an optional download component in the Windows installer and is no longer a separately-downloaded extension.

An excellent release with lots of new features- well worth a test!

Download: Windows Installer, Linux, Mac

View: More info @ mozilla.org

View: Excellent piece on the new branding

What's New:

Feature 'Scan of files inside archives'.

It supports the module 'CD Images'.

Module "Audio/video files": processing of non-standard IDv3 tags.

The analyzer of the search expressions is rewritten. Refer to help file for detail.

Graphics module. Import embedded thumbnails from CorelDraw files (.CDR,.CDT,.CLK).

Compatibility with Win9x is improved.

Function "Add files in catalogue" allows to multiselect files.

Minor bugs is fixed.

(4 replies) #1 supernova_00 on 03 May 2004 - 15:22

Sweet! Thanks Mr magoo

Firefox and Thunderbird...just can't live without them. They are the best of the best in their category

#1.1 Knight' on 03 May 2004 - 16:29

I don't see why Magoo should get the credit all the time, he didn't post the news Dazzla did. What's more is he always does this, and I think it's very unfair.

#1.2 MrRogers on 03 May 2004 - 16:58

QUOTE

I don't see why Magoo should get the credit all the time, he didn't post the news Dazzla did.

Not like it's a huge deal, but I'm just wondering if it's true.

#1.3 Sub on 03 May 2004 - 17:32

Some of us never check BPN. We are so use to finding news on our own.

#1.4 JLP on 03 May 2004 - 22:00

Couldn't agree more. Firefox and Thunderbird are the best. Any they still keep improving fast. Just keep up the excellent job.

#2 antoxicion on 03 May 2004 - 15:24

yay

#3 jerry on 03 May 2004 - 15:24

SWEEET ! Firefox is my fav browser already.

#4 stezo2k on 03 May 2004 - 15:32

whoa, i dig the new icon

(3 replies) #5 kemical on 03 May 2004 - 15:32

did they fix the junk mail problem?

#5.1 supernova_00 on 03 May 2004 - 15:33

Donno what the problem was but

# Improved Junk Mail Controls - The algorithm for the adaptive junk mail controls has been heavily redesigned to learn faster and catch more spam. Also, mail filters can now mark messages as junk.

#5.2 kemical on 03 May 2004 - 19:00

my problem along with others is when no matter how many items you selected as junk mail, it would never seem to learn what was and isnt junk so all email just came through as normal

#5.3 theyarecomingforyou on 04 May 2004 - 00:00

QUOTE (#5.2)

I had that problem... and also, the junk mail filtering would often turn itself off for no reason. The junk mail feature not learning was the only major problem that I came across - hopefully it is solved with this version, or soon.

(3 replies) #6 ThunderRiver on 03 May 2004 - 15:35

Mm I am using the 0.6 rc1, should I remove the old ones before installing the final version?

I kind wish Thunderbird has a tray icon in the system tray...

#6.1 supernova_00 on 03 May 2004 - 15:38

Probably and that would be good!

#6.2 bush on 03 May 2004 - 17:22

here, download this : http://www.protonfx.com/download/thundertray08.zip read the instructions and you have thunderbird in you systray. as easy as it gets.

#6.3 supernova_00 on 03 May 2004 - 17:52

thank you!

(7 replies) #7 Oneill on 03 May 2004 - 15:35

until it supports hotmail "out of the box" ill continue to use outlook express

#7.1 supernova_00 on 03 May 2004 - 15:37

I doubt it will ever support hotmail out the box....just like firefox, its not bloated...lets you add what you want

#7.2 eris on 03 May 2004 - 15:54

That is because hotmail uses non standard stuff which only works with *outlook. (See closed "standards" are good for you just like *.doc) IIRC there is a plugin available.

#7.3 Mr magoo on 03 May 2004 - 16:06

there is a hotmail 'via pop3' available - see here

#7.4 ghos on 03 May 2004 - 16:22

I've been using Thunderbird just fine via hotpopper to get my hotmail. Sure its not right out of the box but its not that difficult to have this small program running. However its a shame the newer hotpopper charges after awhile, so I reverted back to the older version which doesn't have that limitation.
Perhaps someone can create an extension for Tbird that will do hotmail, that would be best.

#7.5 supernova_00 on 03 May 2004 - 17:53

btw I use yahoo pops to get my yahoo email

#7.6 Jugalator on 03 May 2004 - 18:06

I'll just cross my fingers for POP3 support in Gmail

The Help says it's not available currently, but may be in the future for free or not. Hmmm

#7.7 shimon on 04 May 2004 - 13:16

i got a by pass that i made up in 1 min. get hotmail forward ur emails to another email addy like ur yahoo or my server or gmail... then get it from pop3

#8 jerry on 03 May 2004 - 15:35

Mac OS X users now get new mail notification in the system dock.

anybody got a screenie of what this looks like ?

(1 reply) #9 Jason on 03 May 2004 - 15:49

I will stick with Outlook 2003 and OWA 2003, I can VPN it no my work and access the Exchange Server with it.

Plue I am not an open source fan.

#9.1 Jugalator on 03 May 2004 - 18:09

"Plue I am not an open source fan."

I am personally a fan of good software, open source or not.

Software quality doesn't really have to do with development model, as the nice Firefox browser (and any crappy OSS project you can find on SourceForge) proves.

Similarly, I can pick dozens of both awful and great commercial software.

(1 reply) #10 malebolgia on 03 May 2004 - 15:53

How dare Mozilla not release a new version of Firefox along with Thunderbird

#10.1 ultimaweapon on 03 May 2004 - 15:55

Maybe they are letting Thunderbird catch up so we can have a 1.0 release of them both at the same time?

That would be cool

(4 replies) #11 Ciderx on 03 May 2004 - 15:58

I wish they would stop calling it "Windows Installer" with capitals, because it makes people think they use the Windows Installer service, and not this POS awful Nullsoft Installation Script rubbish.

#11.1 MikeN on 03 May 2004 - 16:07

Actually, I'm not sure they are using NSIS...?

#11.2 tapo on 03 May 2004 - 16:21

That's because it is Windows Installer. Last I checked, that's what they used. Not NSIS.

On the title of this page, they call it "Windows Installer" because that's comparing them to adding a Linux installer or a Mac OS X installer.

#11.3 unforgivendown on 03 May 2004 - 16:31

Actually, it's neither NSIS nor the Windows Installer service. It's mozilla.org's own homebrewed installation system, which I believe is based on the XPI Installation framework they have developed.

Last edited by 44284 on 03 May 2004 - 16:38

#11.4 shimon on 04 May 2004 - 13:18

what are u talking about windows installer doesnt work under Linux LOL

#12 Toxicfume on 03 May 2004 - 16:04

Spam protection is the sole reason I use Thunderbird for. It has the best spam protection compared to other mail clients IMO. But not very fond of Firefox myself

(3 replies) #13 supernova_00 on 03 May 2004 - 16:07

I can't believe there have been 18 posts with no trolls.

#13.1 gflores on 03 May 2004 - 16:22

I think you just jinxed it...

#13.2 Jugalator on 03 May 2004 - 18:02

In other news, it's reported it's cold in hell today.

#13.3 chacho on 03 May 2004 - 22:52

#14 ghos on 03 May 2004 - 16:24

For those who have been putting off trying out this program should do it now. I have used it since .4 and it has been stable since then, but also steadily improving. Its a worthwhile alternative to OE for almost everyone.

#15 fobban on 03 May 2004 - 16:37

Just tried it, and i must say it was nice :]
They should fix all the bugs in the address book tho,, getting error reporting **** there all the time

#16 Jugalator on 03 May 2004 - 18:00

There are quite a few features Outlook 2003 offers in addition to Thunderbird 0.6, but I only want 2003's new layout really, and Thunderbird has it.

Nice to have this free alternative to come in a new version.

(2 replies) #17 Crayon on 03 May 2004 - 18:21

anyone know how to do a clean install on this without losing my e-mail, settings, etc etc? since i am using and older version of thunderbird, i'm not sure should i delete the whole profile folder or not.

#17.1 noize on 03 May 2004 - 18:38

i had 0.5 installed in thunderbird folder. i just ran the 0.6 windows installer. after installation, all the settings/emails/themes/extensions/ are in 0.6. i didn't have to do anything.

#17.2 theyarecomingforyou on 04 May 2004 - 00:12

First off I tried installing over the top of my 0.5 installation... bad idea (the about box listed the version as 0.5). So then I renamed that folder and installed it in a clean directory and all my mail settings were kept - they are not kept in the install folder but in a hidden windows folder.

(3 replies) #18 AshMan on 03 May 2004 - 18:24

Is it still Beta?

#18.1 eSouL on 03 May 2004 - 18:41

It is still a 'technology preview'.

#18.2 Jugalator on 03 May 2004 - 19:45

I guess you can call the 1.0 releases for both Firefox and Thunderbird out of beta. They're at least scheduling the bug fixing for that philosophy. The coming Firefox 0.9 will not have more features than 1.0 for example, and 1.0 will be a pure bug fixing / stabilizing release.

#18.3 bush on 03 May 2004 - 20:31

they will wash it untill it gets clean. good thinking.

#19 sadatkarim on 03 May 2004 - 22:00

though i usually use outlook 2003..ill have to try this out.

#20 Bluetooth on 03 May 2004 - 22:24

I would use this if there was a way to sync to my Pocket PC

#21 Crayon on 04 May 2004 - 01:38

anyone know what extensions still work for it right now? i tried the compact menu and calendar extension and both are having problems.

(1 reply) #22 TC17 on 04 May 2004 - 05:59

Unfortunetly replying to a email message looks like crap with this client. There is no indentation or anything to show what is quoted, and it starts your reply at the bottom of the quote instead of the top like most people are used to. Your reply and and quoted part run together.

Its also using a name that confuses it with a browser. I didn't read everything in the description and thought I was downloading the browser also, only to discover its only an email client named after a browser.

#22.1 Skyfrog on 04 May 2004 - 06:59

The browser is called Firefox, the email client Thunderbird. Not sure how that is confusing. Besides it says right in the first sentence that this is an email client.

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