Mozilla Thunderbird 1.07 RC

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open-source and cross-platform mail client and news reader for most modern operating systems including, but not limited to, Windows, Linux and Macintosh. It offers some advantages over other mail clients, including junk mail classification. Built from Mozilla code, Mozilla Thunderbird uses Gecko, the most standards-compliant rendering engine in existence.

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.

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Download: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.07 RC

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What's New In This Release:

Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
Spell check as you type.
Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
Deleting attachments from messages.
Integration with server side spam filtering.
Reply and forward actions for message filters.
Kerberos Authentication.
Auto save as draft for mail composition.
Improvements to product usability including redesigned options UI, and SMTP server management.
Many security enhancements

(1 reply) #1 MobiusTech1 on 24 Sep 2005 - 15:14

nightly?

#1.1 elliot on 24 Sep 2005 - 15:31

It's softpedia, so i'd say yes definitely.

#2 DigeratiPrime on 24 Sep 2005 - 15:32

i love this email program.

(1 reply) #3 Soleen on 24 Sep 2005 - 15:36

Thunderbird is good, but I personally prefer the one in Opera. I am one of those who thinks that there is not reason to have two programs to browse internet and send e-mails.

#3.1 nvizible on 24 Sep 2005 - 20:19

Yip, I use M2 to do all my mail/RSS feeds; it's far superior.

(3 replies) #4 Mad_Griffith on 24 Sep 2005 - 16:01

Great app, I've recently switched over to it, leaving Outlook 2003 back. I find Mozilla's product faster than the MS' app. Can't wait for 1.0.7 to reach the FINAL release.

#4.1 MajinDark on 24 Sep 2005 - 16:09

Same, I love Thunderbird. I made the jump about 18 months ago after using *shudder* Outlook Express for so long.

#4.2 Jugalator on 24 Sep 2005 - 16:15

Yep, I liked Outlook 2003 until I started using Thunderbird and being pleasantly surprised there was finally a free feature packed mail client with the same preview pane layout as in Outlook.

It's also far ahead of that one with the spam blocking feature, which is kinda important these days. :p

#4.3 nvizible on 24 Sep 2005 - 20:22

Then again, "Windows Mail", which is in the works for Vista, looks awesome! (Still won't beat M2 though, especially not once "Merlin" is released!)

#5 fekimoki on 24 Sep 2005 - 16:16

podcasting ?? wow

(1 reply) #6 realmccoy on 24 Sep 2005 - 17:12

If they could add Outlook rules and calander I would switch , but until then Outlook still has Thunderbird beat.

#6.1 mikey on 24 Sep 2005 - 17:18

grab sunbird for your calendar and there is probably an extrension to add outlook rules!

(1 reply) #7 warwagon on 24 Sep 2005 - 17:40

Now all they need is Active Sync support and they will be golden

#7.1 maulia on 24 Sep 2005 - 21:46

I agree.
there's a project for this called ThunderSync but no files have been released yet.

#8 one321 on 24 Sep 2005 - 18:20

I use Thunderbird along with Enigmail GPG for work. I love it! I still use Outlook for my other mail, calendar appointments, and tasks, but I can see myself switching completely over to Mozilla one of these days.

(3 replies) #9 Jaxkesa on 24 Sep 2005 - 18:47

I just wish you could minimize it to the system tray. I tried an extension that is meant to do this but it doesn't seem to work

#9.1 Samurai-HQ on 24 Sep 2005 - 21:09

This works, trust me. I've been using it for months now.

http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/

#9.2 Jaxkesa on 24 Sep 2005 - 22:11

sweet thanks

#9.3 Samurai-HQ on 24 Sep 2005 - 22:13

you're most welcome

(2 replies) #10 nvizible on 24 Sep 2005 - 20:19

I'm sorry to inform you that it's not "the most standards-compliant rendering engine in existence" - that'd be Presto!

#10.1 khaos34 on 24 Sep 2005 - 21:19

What about Webkit?

#10.2 rm20010 on 26 Sep 2005 - 15:18

You'd expect a typical marketing statement from the masters of deception at Mozilla to be true.

Sure, it's better than Trident. Almost all engines are better than Trident when it comes to standards support. But where's the proof that it's the best?

(2 replies) #11 Pink Floyd on 24 Sep 2005 - 23:34

thunderbird needs a huge step to make me switch from thebat

but for normal email usage, thunderbird is correct. If you are power email users, then thebat is the only way to go

#11.1 Mad_Griffith on 25 Sep 2005 - 02:48

Why thebat would beat tb? What features make so that it is better than Mozilla's app?

Thank you for answering

#11.2 Pink Floyd on 25 Sep 2005 - 14:21

there are way too many to enumerate them here. try it and you will see

#12 matt74441 on 25 Sep 2005 - 04:24

I feel bad. I recently switched from Thunderdird to Evolution in Gentoo, but I still use Thunderbird in Windows. I've been with Thunderbird since its earliest versions. The only thing I don't like is the lack of Sunbird development/integration. Perhaps when it matures more I'll go back, but I still think its an excellent program.

#13 narshornsyst on 25 Sep 2005 - 11:08

One thing they might do is quicken launch . Compared to OE it is still a little slow ...

But anyway great mail client

love it

#14 Fubar on 25 Sep 2005 - 15:06

one of the best email clients out there for windows , shame evolution cant be on windows but ah well this is the next best thing

(1 reply) #15 masterren on 25 Sep 2005 - 15:14

I'm not sure if this has to do with Firefox, Thunderbird, or my computer specifically, but why does it take ages to load up a new "compose" Thunderbird window when I click on a "mailto:" link in Firefox?

#15.1 Fubar on 25 Sep 2005 - 18:31

it might be todo with your comp as ive just tried what you mentioned in your post and for me its just a tad quicker than what outlook express took but im not sure , hope you get your problem fixed

#16 mr_da3m0n on 26 Sep 2005 - 00:34

I went to checkout sylpheed-claws for a while, but just went back to Tbird. It handles my IMAP account wonderfully...

As for the person who said TheBat! was superior.. well, actually, I cannot try it for I do not run Windows. And it costs money.

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