Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Final

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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.

This release features a really sweet new skin, many new features, and alot of bug fixes. Worth the download!

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News source: http://www.wonderboard.net/

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What's New in This Release:

· + Import of Outlook Express address items (Windows Address Book)
· + IMAP Fine-Tune option to disable message flag refreshing each time a folder selected (to save time and bandwidth in case of single client and single user access)
· - 0001618 A dot character was added to the outgoing attached files without extension
· - 0001821 HTML-to-Plain routine was converting the title tagged text as a part of plain text content
· - A dot was always added to the name of an attached file without an extension
· - An extra attachment was created due to move attachments between folders when attachments were stored separately
· - Deletion settings were not used for purging from the Folder Maintenance Centre
· - IMAP messages were not refreshed when their flags were changed by a concurrent user
· - It was not possible to define a folder for alternative deletion if ordinary deletion was not using any non-Trash folder
· - PGP v7+ key server search loop (Beta)
· - Recipient addresses weren't imported from Outlook 2000.
· - Selected IMAP folder was not refreshed on new messages arrival
· - A lot of cosmetic bugs

(1 reply) #1 trikster on 06 Dec 2003 - 14:31

Anyone try this yet? Or anyone have a screenshot of the new skin?

#1.1 OPaul on 06 Dec 2003 - 18:11

This thread has a picture of the "new" UI.
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Final

#2 Apollo on 06 Dec 2003 - 14:33

wicked!!!

#3 Cryton on 06 Dec 2003 - 14:37

Working nicely here for me!

(4 replies) #4 Mr magoo on 06 Dec 2003 - 15:09

yeah- i've tried it, works fine.

To upgrade, simply wipe the old directory with the previous files in (thunderbird.exe etc), and then wipe the chrome directory in application settings.

#4.1 Apollo on 06 Dec 2003 - 15:15

thanks man. i didn't know about the chrome dir..

new theme is cool

#4.2 bush on 07 Dec 2003 - 10:38

wiping out chrome directory isn't really necesseray. only the directory where firebird is installed.

#4.3 OPaul on 08 Dec 2003 - 13:37

QUOTE (#4.2)

Why can't you just overwrite the old installation with the new?

#4.4 Sushubh on 08 Dec 2003 - 15:46

Firebird?

#5 Dracken on 06 Dec 2003 - 18:01

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The focus of this fourth milestone release was on new feature development. This milestone release is built off of the recently released Mozilla 1.6 Beta Application suite. While there is much more work yet to do, the developers are excited about recent progress and are anxious to share their latest efforts with the community. Enjoy!

nothing is ever final for this

(5 replies) #6 neoufo51 on 06 Dec 2003 - 19:54

I'm waiting for 1.0. I need ONE inbox for all my accounts.

#6.1 Apollo on 06 Dec 2003 - 20:29

that should be at least as an option... sigh

#6.2 BananaMan on 07 Dec 2003 - 06:36

But you can already! Go to Tools > Message Filters and create a filter so that all mail that arrives gets automatically moved to a centralised inbox. It's not elegant, but it works just fine.

#6.3 neoufo51 on 07 Dec 2003 - 11:30

Not good enough. We don't have to do that for other clients.

We need a "first run" option when you first set up the client to pick where you want one set of boxes for all or a set of boxes for each account.

#6.4 BoondockSaint on 08 Dec 2003 - 12:25

It should definately be an option - mainly because I prefer the way it works now

#6.5 Hawk999 on 08 Dec 2003 - 16:41

If you want one inbox reply to this tread.

(5 replies) #7 Knight' on 06 Dec 2003 - 20:16

Outlook 2003 sold me! I use Firebird, without question it's better than IE. However, Thunderbird doesn't cut the mustard for me, it still needs more features.

#7.1 OPaul on 06 Dec 2003 - 21:01

Like what?

#7.2 Fly Soul on 06 Dec 2003 - 23:10

Auto Archive....

#7.3 OPaul on 07 Dec 2003 - 01:46

What's "Auto Achieve"?

#7.4 giantsnyy2002 on 07 Dec 2003 - 02:58

auto archive is the ability to take all the old messages, and shove them in a folder. Does the work for you.

#7.5 Shovel on 09 Dec 2003 - 00:56

I have to concede to not having used Thunderbird as yet - I'm a long term Outlook user, and I actually use the "Life Management" sides of Outlook too, so Thunderbird is not quite what I'm after. I wouldn't be suprised if over time extensions appear that would turn it into Outlook and much more - which I'd be interested to try - though on top of that, advanced features like Mobile phone syncronisation would be nice and so require even more careful development for the many different extensions. There'd be a lot of work to do, which is not a priority for a mail client project, however nice it may be. I'm a Firebird user, so if it all came together I'd be sold - the ability to run Windows and Linux using the same data files for Browser and mail client is salivating...

Auto Archive, by the way (and to be exact) works as follows:
Outlook keeps all email, contacts, calender appointments and tasks in a single file (refered to since 2003 as an "Outlook Data File" - nice and simple). Archiving allows you to filter out this file to keep it trim, and Auto Archive is a build in way of scheduling this to happen.

I, for instance, have Auto Archiving run every day, and I have it filter content differently for each mail folder. My Inbox only holds emails for 2 weeks, while my "Mailing Lists" folder only holds mail for 3 days. My calender gets old appointments removed after a week and my bank statements are kept for 6 months.
Univeristy project mails are not archived at all because I refer to them a lot. I also have the Auto Arcive settings of my Spam Assassin folder set to "Permanently Delete" everything older than 1 day.

It's a very simple concept, which Outlook happens to implement very, very well indeed.

(1 reply) #8 Liaqat_ali on 06 Dec 2003 - 20:32

ThunderBird Combined with Hotpop, is something really reliable. Regular user, would appreciate of it comes with a installer.

#8.1 Turn It Down on 06 Dec 2003 - 21:48

You can get the installer right here
http://seb.mozdev.org/thunderbird/

(1 reply) #9 Wolfsglen on 06 Dec 2003 - 23:40

Works great here, Outlook 2003 may have a few more features, but given the price difference (free Open Source VS not free/Open Source), i know which i prefer

#9.1 Shovel on 09 Dec 2003 - 01:17

If all you use Outlook for is mail, then Thunderbird is probably your perfect partner. Bear in mind that the actual 'competitor' for TB is actually Outlook Express, without the Information Management functionality of 'full' Outlook

#10 DOCa Cola on 07 Dec 2003 - 11:05

ah, i love this mail client

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