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Thunderbird 3 RC out Monday
THE OPEN SOURCE Mozilla Foundation is set to release the first Release Candidate of its email client Thunderbird 3 early next week.
Big cheeses at Mozzarella say that RC 1 of Thunderbird 3 will be available for download as soon as Monday, with the final version expected later in November.
Chief executive David Ascher said that developers are working on fixing the last few bugs in Thunderbird 3 beta 4.
While Thunderbird is very much under the shadow of the Firefox browser, it is a good reliable email client that has a cult following. What Mozilla hopes to do with this release is improve the ability of the software to handle add-ons and the way it works with Firebadger.
One add-on that's already underway is Lightning, which is similar to the Vole's Outlook calendar functions.
Another significant new Thunderchicken feature is an improved search function, which means that it will be possible to get better results when looking for that lost email you sent months ago.
With Thunderbird 3, it returns all results that match a search text, which the previous release could not do.
The new version has a simpler start-up process. It also has an email archive, which means you will be able to store emails so they do not clutter up the Inbox, then search for and find them later.
Mail accounts, folders, and individual messages can show as new tabs rather than new windows, as well. µ
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The current system, where you had to use a web browser to find and download the add-on, then Thunderbird to navigate to and load the add-on, is clumsy and highly off-putting. I've only bothered to do it for Chinese PeraPera-Kun (a translator), because I need that functionality.
Having a decent, integrated add-on search and load facility - assuming and hoping that's what they're doing - will be a huge improvement, and will encourage users to explore the wider range of possibilities ThunderBird offers through user-generated content and options.
That's great, I've just started using Thunderbird 3 Beta 4, it certainly has got some improvements over Thunderbird 2.
It's about time too, I can't help but think that Thunderbird has been somewhat neglected. Sure lots of people use web mail services these days, but still some of us do still like a local mail client.
Rob
Very nice! I'm looking forward to TB's new search system. Even its current search is INFINITELY better than Gmail's utterly worthless search system that can't even find "mail" in "Gmail". The irony is so deep.
Eat that Google!
firefox updates, especially in my work environment are pretty boring things, but a thunderbird update is something i can really sink my teeth into.
should be an interesting monday
We all know that Thunderbird 3 has the worse search features on the Planet.
If you use IMAP.
I still can't search online for a phrase in the body of a email or in a header of my choosing.
It either locks up for an eternity and refuses to respond to the stop icon or simply can't find it.
So anything will be an improvement!
Quite why IMAP users are penalised like this is beyond me. POP3 works.
...does the swimming pool move aside so it can take off?
I'll go now.