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Mozilla Thunderbird - 0.6

Enhanced Mozilla email client

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All Time:	(3.5)
Version 0.6:	(3.9)
Selected Version:	0.6
Release Date:	2004-05-03
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 0.6):	2,832
Downloads (all versions):	145,097

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Product Description:

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.

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. Highlights include:

The ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window.
UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experiene with specific features and enchancements that you need. Support for extensions. 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.
A new look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
An addressing sidebar for mail compose which makes it easy and convient to add address book contacts to emails.
Online help includes a FAQ, tips and tricks and other useful information.
Simplified preferences UI and menus.
Footprint and performance improvements.

What's new in this version:

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.
Improved Junk Mail Controls - The algorithm for the adaptive junk mail controls has been heavily redesigned to learn faster and catch more spam.
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.
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.
Thunderbird supports server-wide news filters that apply to all newsgroups on a server.
Thunderbird includes Secure Password Authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
Mail filters can now mark messages as junk.
Offline support is an optional download component in the Windows installer and is no longer a separately-downloaded extension.
Mac OS X users now get new mail notification in the system dock.
The DOM Inspector is an optional download component in the Windows installer for theme authors.
Tools > Options > Compose > HTML Options allows you to set up default HTML compose options such as font, size and color.
Attachments can be opened directly from the compose window to verify their contents before sending.
Thunderbird now supports the notion of multiple identities per mail account. This makes it easy to have several e-mail addresses which end up going into the same account. Read More about how to set this up.
In the case of a failure when copying a message to an online Sent folder, Thunderbird will now ask if you would like it to try again.
0.6 on Windows includes several improvements to Simple MAPI that allow it to work with older versions of Microsoft Office.
Pasting data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet no longer pastes random HTML garbage before the actual spreadsheet data into HTML compose.
Fixed several situations where LDAP connections were left open when using LDAP auto complete or performing searches on LDAP directories.
Improved view source behavior.
Mail notification for POP3 messages that are marked deleted or marked read by mail filters no longer occurs.
The "Mark All Read" keyboard shortcut now works for Linux GTK2.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 0.6:
Overall Rating:	(3.9)	Features:	(3.5)	Support:	(3.8)
Ease of Use:	(4.1)	Quality / Stability:	(3.7)	Price:	(4.5)

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Thunderbird - Version: 2.0.0.17, 12/9/2008 08:38AM PST

cindroo

Overall, I had been quite happy with Thunderbird up until this latest version. I especially love the add-on called Clippings Manager that allows me to insert "boilerplate" text into my email messages, as I send out quite a few business messages.

However, with this latest update, suddenly I can no longer "Save All" with my attachments. It seems permanently grayed out. Used to work just fine, with one bit of weirdness. Even though I had switched from one email to another, if I didn't actually click once on the "new" attachment in the visible email, it would try to resave the attachment from the previous email. Odd. But I receive emails with several attachments all day long and it is a royal pain to have to click on each one individually within a single email and save each separately.

I, too, have always been frustrated that no matter what I do, it saves all the attachments to my desktop. I frequently have to double check that I have an actual saved version in a client's folder before I can throw away the extra one, left over from viewing, that's been placed on my desktop. Hello - don't need them on the desktop!

Eudora is still better! - Version: 2.0.0.14, 5/2/2008 11:02AM PST

(3 of 8 users found this comment useful)

Catbel

Eudora is still MUCH better! -
I agree 100%.

I add to puffo25's list

1, fastest email search and text browsing available!
2. very stable
3. attactive graphic and layout
4. easy to use and customize
5. very user friendly

6. Best Fetch ever: skip messages with attach you don't want
but still have the first lines available to read

I have Leopard but I still use Eudora because of that

Catbel

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Eudora is still better!

Eudora is still better!

Eudora is still MUCH better! - Version: 2.0.0.14, 5/2/2008 12:44AM PST

(9 of 14 users found this comment useful)

puffo25

Hello, I used Eudora 6.x for several years and I was very happy for the following reasons:

1, fastest email search and text browsing available!
2. very stable
3. attactive graphic and layout
4. easy to use and customize
5. very user friendly

With Leopard OS 10.5 I moved to Thunderbird. First version 2.0.0.9/12 and now 2.0.0.14. After a lot of testing I can report the following experience with it:

1. poor layout
2. VERY sloooooow to handle large volume of incoming emails
3. when adding dictionaries, the menu bar got corrupted (could NOT display the text formatting panel any more and had to fully re-install the application!).

In conclusion? Mmmm. Missing the old Eudora a lot!
Puffo.

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Eudora is still MUCH better!