Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released

An anonymous reader submits: The Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone Mozilla based mail/news reader) developers have just released their first milestone: version 0.1, available for Mac Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The v0.1 release notes highlight some of the bigger features like customizable toolbars, UI extensions, contact manager sidebar, simplified UI, 3-pane mail window option, and spell checker. Also of note, Mozilla's usage share has risen from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!"

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I have the pleasure to use this.

[HyperColor Underware]

Yes, it is a 0.1 release for a reason. It crashed on my Windows system only once or twice, and that was probably due to some misconfiguring on my part. It was easy to configure, unfortunately it still reeks of "I-look-like-netscape"ocity (a problem plauging mozilla).

Linux distribution is quite good, it won't take over from Evolution just yet.

It's a good start. Remember, people, before you start posting whines about things not working, remember, this is a 0.1 release.

Extensions

[Jedbro]

Make sure you get your favorite features from the extensions ;)

Extensions:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/
h ttp://texturizer.net/thunderbird/extensions.html

An Introduction to Thunderbird

[Chuck Bucket]

Nidelven IT just put up a new article called An Introduction to Thunderbird. Looks pretty solid.

CB

Re:Will it import my Mozilla Mail and settings?

[CyberSlugGump]

Look at How do I migrate my Mozilla mail and settings to Thunderbird

FWIW, I've been runing Mozilla Mail 1.3 and Thunderbird side by side (using the same profile/email stores) and no problems.

Also in the news

[MicroBerto]

Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 has been released

I don't think it's an official milestone, perhaps more of a release candidate, but test it out for the team anyway!

Best IMAP support on windows bar none

[batkiwi]

This thing has the best IMAP support for windows of any mail client.

-no "phantom" messages like OE (my previous favourite) gets
-ssl support
-automagic configuration of namespaces (something most imap clients don't do even though it's in the RFC)
-conditional subfolder checking for "new" in case you have server side filtering
-"delete", "mark deleted", and "move to trash" support, instead of the simple "mark deleted" most imap clients have
-50% more pie

Pretty solid already

[s0meguy]

I've been using Thunderbird on Windows now for about 3 weeks and I haven't had a single problem. I much prefer it to Eudora, my previous email client.

By the way, something useful for non-US English users that took me a while to figure out: Thunderbird uses MySpell dictionaries which can be downloaded here.

And lots more tips for Thunderbird here.

Re:Will it import my Mozilla Mail and settings?

[andyed]

It is possible to hack your profile directories and use your Mozilla Mail data. I just recreated the accounts and pointed Mozilla Mail to the t-bird profile folders in mail prefs. That way, I can use MozMail or T-bird -- primarily using T-bird when I'm hacking Mozilla and need to restart often.

On other imports, I successfully imported 500mb of Outlook data with no problem. Easy to share the data between t-bird and mozmail too.

As to the .1 issue, the core code here is based upon Mozilla 1.5-ish, so the datasource functions for mail are well tested, the UI not so much.

Yes it does.

[Jedbro]

"In addition to automatically detecting junk mail using the same method as Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird also sanitizes HTML in mail marked as junk in order to better protect your privacy and give peace of mind when viewing a message identified as junk.".

In other words YES, it does. As long as the message is marked as JUNK MAIL, it will stripp it of anything that could be dangerous for viewing, if it is not dangerous, just mark as "not junk" ;)