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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released

Posted by michael on from the sunday-morning-fun dept.

Random BedHead Ed writes "The latest release of Mozilla Thunderbird, the standalone Mozilla mail program, has been released and is available for download here. A quick scan of the release notes shows some new improvements and features, including a new look, bug fixes, and for Linux users the ability to click on a URL in an e-mail and have it actually launch in your default web browser (how novel). Download and enjoy..."

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  1. Although it is in 0.4 by ErixTr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thunderbird is really very stable. I have been using it since 0.2a as my main e-mail software. (Including all the nightly builds.)

    I can't think how stable 1.0 will be. Just give it a try. You'll like it.

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  2. Might not happen, but there's always a chance... by showdax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you aren't able to get complete support for your needs, you or anyone could write an extension; modules that add functionality to Thunderbird.

    I've heard people wanting this and that in Firebird and Thunderbird and others arguing that certain features would just bloat the programs. With extensions, people get the features they want, and people who don't want them can rest easy. Works well for the birds.

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  3. The one "feature" that holds me back by MikShapi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...me and half the world that is.

    The CALENDAR.

    I use outlook everywhere because I need the calendar.
    If they could provide a simple calendar program, like the Good'Ol palm desktop, they'd open the door for quite a lot of people.
    I don't mean a large-scale office multi-user integrated calendar solution like MS Exchange.
    Sure, you could get to that later on, build it on top of MySQL or something, I mean something simple I can use at home for myself. Something that people with non-corporate needs can use to organize their life (These people _do_ exist you know. One or two of them.)

    Of course you'd be fighting an uphill battle to set some form of open standard for calendar/mail/addressbook syncing. An API for handhelds/smartphones to use (as opposed to "Does it sync with Outlook?"), Microsoft would be clobbering you on the head every step of the way - Windows Mobile 200X will not support you out of the box, Outlook will continue shipping with PDA's, ActiveSync will work flawlessly with Outlook and they'd be paying non-MS mobile vendors (like palm) to support Outlook-syncing in their (even non-MS) OS and not support alternative sync standards.

    And yet, if such an API did come to exist, the Open Source community would complement the software support that the PalmOS/Windows Mobile/Symbian/Linux handhelds/smartphones will lack to sync to the desktop, not to mention the desktop software itself.

    In my view, FireBird seems like the mother of all places to start pushing such an API.

    Bit until that happens, I'll stick with Outlook.

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