Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 released

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Thanks Fotix for this post in the forums. Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.

Since this is our first milestone release, everything is new! In addition to the feature set found in Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird has several new features and improvements to make your mail and new experience better.

Download: Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows (8.9mb) Mac OSX (10.6mb) Linux (9.2mb)

Screenshot: >> Click here <<

News source: The Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Project

* Customizable Toolbars and Mail 3-pane
Toolbars can be customized the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window. Mozilla Thunderbird also supports a new vertical 3-pane configuration (Tools / Options / General), giving you even more choice in how you want to view your mail.

* Extensions
UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experience with specific features and enhancements that you need. Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.

* Contacts Manager
A contacts sidebar for mail compose makes it easy and convenient to add address book contacts to emails.

* Junk Mail Detection
In addition to automatically detecting junk mail using the same method as Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird also sanitizes HTML in mail marked as junk in order to better protect your privacy and give peace of mind when viewing a message identified as junk.

* New default theme
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 sports a crisp, fresh and attractive theme, based on the amazing Qute theme by Arvid Axelsson. This is the same theme used by Mozilla Firebird, giving Thunderbird a similar look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a growing number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.

* Stream-lined user interface and simplified Options UI.
* Integrated spell checker.

(3 replies) #1 Kombatant on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:01

Mmmm.. at last a milestone

I've been running an alpha build for a couple of months now; made me forget about Outlook Express already :p

#1.1 Jason on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:06

Outlook 2003 has made me forget about Outlook Express already too :p

#1.2 Rockett15 on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:12

gotta agree outlook 2003 has made me forget outlook express

#1.3 Kombatant on 28 Jul 2003 - 22:08

I just want to have a mail client, not a program which will remind me all the things I have to do.. i have the gf for that

#2 kainashi on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:09

i've been using it for months now. it's great to finally have a milestone build.

#3 Mav Phoenix on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:13

Nice, but not sure if I can give up on Outlook XP just yet.

#4 rezza on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:19

hehe, i've been using it for ages, too... good to see a milestone at last though.

#5 Demogorgon on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:29

woohoo a milestone

#6 whistlerxp on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:45

cool a milestone, finally!

#7 silly_walk on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:46

I'd feel better if I knew I could export to a .pst file. Can someone tell me if I can?

#8 Cron0 on 28 Jul 2003 - 20:59

It's the only mail program I have found that has been able to import my Outlook 2003 Mail & Settings... (Eudora 6 is supposed to do it, but crashes)

#9 GOHARD on 28 Jul 2003 - 21:06

sweet

(1 reply) #10 Zerosignull on 28 Jul 2003 - 21:11

hmmm .... doesnt work with hotmail ... ne onw know how i can retrieve me hotmail with this?

#10.1 NETknightX on 28 Jul 2003 - 21:28

QUOTE (#10.0)

Use something like Hotmail Popper:

http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/

(1 reply) #11 XxDesmus_MODxX on 28 Jul 2003 - 21:47

Outlook 2003 Beta2 TR...there just isn't a better email option right now IMHO

#11.1 bangbang023 on 29 Jul 2003 - 15:22

same here

(1 reply) #12 Skyfrog on 28 Jul 2003 - 22:20

Does that logo remind anyone else of communists? Maybe it's just me

Sounds nice, but I think I'll wait for it to mature a bit more. I mean, version 0.1?

#12.1 WishX on 29 Jul 2003 - 00:27

QUOTE (#12.0)

To be honest, it looks like they trimmed down the right side of the original Quake logo and used a bit of the coloring from the Quake III Arena logo.

When you see a post that idSoftware is suing them for trademark infringement, remember you read it here first.

(1 reply) #13 neoufo51 on 28 Jul 2003 - 23:03

It's version 0.1, you dope, but if you read more about it, its based off mozilla mail 1.5 and its a derivation of it.

#13.1 Skyfrog on 29 Jul 2003 - 06:12

I believe it would have been entirely possible to have stated that without the name calling. I mean you probably wouldn't like it if I called you a jerk so I won't. It wouldn't be polite. But yes, I know what it's based off of as it said that right in the first sentence of the article. Still what I meant was while it's probably nice I prefer the client I'm using right now. When it matures more I might give it another go.

#14 kev64 on 28 Jul 2003 - 23:35

Thunderbirds are go!

#15 vip on 29 Jul 2003 - 00:37

thunderbird is great been using it for a couple of months now ... i totally love it.

(3 replies) #16 Joshie on 29 Jul 2003 - 01:07

And lo, doth the unfathomably long development cycle begin.

Call me when it's 1.1.

Seriously tho, I've played with it a little, and I'd switch over, but it doesn't have one lil' feature I've grown addicted to with xnews: saving attachments from many posts at one time in usenet. You know, rather than going post-by-post. You just select a bunch, then "Decode to..." and it saves it all. Great for...um...educational materials.

#16.1 neoufo51 on 29 Jul 2003 - 02:50

Do you understand that this derivation of Mozilla Mail is based off Mozilla Mail 1.5???

Its not unstable, dude, its working pretty well for me with my Firebird.

#16.2 Joshie on 29 Jul 2003 - 07:36

Of course I understand that. I'm talking about the feature set.

#16.3 Deth on 06 Aug 2003 - 00:36

QUOTE (#16.0)

Seriously tho, I've played with it a little, and I'd switch over, but it doesn't have one lil' feature I've grown addicted to with xnews: saving attachments from many posts at one time in usenet. You know, rather than going post-by-post. You just select a bunch, then "Decode to..." and it saves it all. Great for...um...educational materials.

That's why I've scrapped Outlook 2000 in favor of Thunderbird (and damn glad I did) but still use XNews.

I've yet to see a program which can be at reading news and mail. It's one or the other (or in the case of Outhouse Express, neither).

#17 dukefan21 on 29 Jul 2003 - 01:38

Can you minimize this to the system tray?

(1 reply) #18 Big_Daddy on 29 Jul 2003 - 03:47

Does it have (true) IMAP support ... yet?

Last edited by 1745 on 29 Jul 2003 - 05:46

#18.1 zivan56 on 29 Jul 2003 - 07:11

Its had IMAP support for a long time, I've been using it since Mozilla 1.0

#19 cappuchok on 29 Jul 2003 - 06:24

Looks nice, but I still think Pine is the MUA to rule them all. It'll take a lot more than this to convince me otherwise.

#20 NinjaOfLove on 30 Jul 2003 - 14:53

Yay, another mail client, and a mediocre one at that.

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