Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 email software

[mandy]

Following on the heels of the Firefox 2.0 beta in mid-July, Mozilla has released the first 2.0 previews of its Thunderbird email client...

I spent the weekend using the Thunderbird 2.0 preview and experienced no crashes or data loss. The app is noticeably speedier; initial startup and message retrieval were both faster, though of course your performance may vary depending on the number and type of mail accounts you are checking. The interface is essentially unchanged, but with a few adjustments worthy of discussion...

The changes in this release are best described as subtle. At first glance you might miss it, but there is a new button on the toolbar labeled Tag. This is new feature allowing you to mark messages with user-definable tags. It replaces the older Label feature, although by default it supplies you with a set of tags identical to Thunderbird's old set of labels...

full article: http://internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/01/2059228&from=rss

There is a lot in Thunderbird 2 Alpha 1 that we invite you to play around with and give us feedback on:

    * Message Tags
    * Folder Views including favorite folders
    * Improved New Mail Notification Alerts
    * New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
    * Find As You Type in the message pane
    * New combined and improved Add-ons manager for extensions and themes
    * Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions

Thunderbird 2.0 preview home page: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/2.0a1.html
downloads: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/relea...l#download

[mandy]

Mozilla released the Thunderbird 2.0 last week.  A review:

After many months of development, Thunderbird 2.0 is almost ready to debut. The Mozilla Foundation released the first beta of Thunderbird 2.0 last week, and I've been using it to manage my mail since then. The new release boasts tagging, history navigation, new mail alerts, improved extension support, and a number of other features. Thunderbird 2.0 won't knock your socks off with exciting new features, but it's a nice, gradual improvement over the Thunderbird 1.5 series.

One of the things I didn't like about Thunderbird 1.x was that you were limited to five labels for messages. You could customize the color and text for the label, but five was the limit. Three there shall not be, and six was right out. Thunderbird 2.0 ditches labels altogether and goes for the Web 2.0 gusto with tags -- as many tags as you want...

The primary advantage to tagging is that a message can have multiple tags, but a message could only have one predefined label in previous Thunderbird releases...

full article: http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/19/2151210&from=rss