Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Released

KingDaveRa writes "Mozilla.org has quietly released Thunderbird 1.0 RC1. 1.0 RC1 includes lots of bug fixes and improvements for features like saved search folders, the RSS reader, mail migration, and message grouping. The default themes have both been updated with new and improved artwork as well."

Comments

Re:Handling in Linux?

[SlashdotOgre]

Under Gnome, clicking a mailto: link in firefox launches the default mail program you select under Preferred Applications in gnome-control-center. If Thunderbird is your default mail client, it will launch that.

Re:Gmail

[cetan]

with gmail providing pop3 access, you /could/ integrate the two :)

But really, I use both. gmail has taken over "web" duty from my old yahoo account and thunderbird controls mail from my domains.

Re:Thunderbird is missing something

[oddman]

You know one big advantage it has over it's competition (at least the MS flavor of competition?)

I know exactly where my e-mail is stored on my computer. If T-bird ever crashes or if I need to copy the entire in-box I can do it easilly.

In Outlook Express, the location of the mail is hidden. With absolutely no information on how to find it in the help-files or MS website. Further you can't export your mail to any easilly accesible format. I can't count how many messages I've lost simply because I was updating to a new HD and there was absolutely no easy way to migrate with OE.

Re:Thunderbird is missing something

[gavinjolly]

I have recently moved a client Off thunderbird due to issues. Refer here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=1710 10 for my post to the Tunderbird forums. Here is the summary of the issues from my message for those too lazy to click on the link

• No spell check suggester
• Limited signatures - Only one per account and no way to insert during editing a message. A pain for us who use signatures as an Autotext/proforma facility.
• Searching for emails - In OE and other mail clients when the list is sorted by Sender clicking M will take you to the first M entry.
• Formatting HTML emails - You cannot select HTML text and then set to the same text size from the formatting toolbar, you must go through the menu (Format > Size > Medium)

I still use it myself as a preference.

Re:Multiple identities/accounts

[John_Booty]

Problem with Thunderbird is that I never liked the way it handled multiple-acounts.

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but I have a feeling you didn't like the way the mail was split up, with one "Inbox" per account? A lot of people didn't like that.

Well, the good news is that you now have a choice. For each email account, you can choose whether the mail goes into an account-specific Inbox OR a "global Inbox". So you can have all your mail in one big Inbox, if that's what you like.

Personally, I like having separate Inboxes for each mail account, because I have many mail accounts and each one has a pretty specific purpose. One for spam, one for friends, several for business/website-related purposes, etc. But apparently the majority of users want a global Inbox, and the developers listened. Pretty cool if you ask me. :)

Re:A couple of things:

[jeffehobbs]

It would be really cool to have automatic virtual directories. I have my email sorted into subfolder by email address. I have rules set up to put emails into folders. Why not have this be automatic?

Saved Search Folders is exactly, precisely what you want, and it's in Thunderbird right now. It's an insanely great feature.

~jeff

Re:A couple of things:

[jeffehobbs]

Then it sounds like you're a candidate for "Grouped by Sort", which is a dumb name for a cool feature:

1) sort your mail by sender.

2) hit "G". Now all your mail is arranged in little collapsed subgroups depending on the sender/email address.

This doesn't use folders per se, so I agree that it's not exactly, precisely what you want, but the end result is similar.

~jeff

Re:Thunderbird is missing something

[saurabhchandra]

I made a small list of features where Thunderbird scores over Outlook express. Here use it for advocacy :-)

1. Inbuilt junk filter
2. Spell Checker (OE doesn't have spell checker if MS Office is not installed)
3. Save Searches as Folders
4. Integrated RSS reader
5. Inline search (no separate window is popped for simple searches, has a neat search box on top)
6. Allows creating simple Rules for filtering mail automatically
7. Option to view contacts in a sidebar for easy finding and insertion in compose window
8. Inline search in the To/cc field ala Outlook
9. Quick pre-saved filters (unread messages, flagged messages, last five days, people I know etc)
10. Option to change screen layout

Re:Reasons to use Outlook Express

[Khazunga]

Right click on folder, click "Compact this folder". It's idiotic, but TB is following the spec to the letter. Blame the spec.