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:Here's a Thought

[The Wicked Priest]

You could view it as an Outlook Express (not Outlook) replacement -- both OE and TB do Usenet, while Outlook doesn't; neither OE nor TB does calendaring. But a better way of looking at it is as a replacement for the mail and news functionality in the old, integrated versions of Mozilla or Netscape. A lot of people still use that, and if they want to upgrade (crossgrade?) to Firefox, they need a replacement mail client. Thunderbird allows them to switch with, hopefully, the minimum of pain. In fact, that's why I put it on my sister's system.

Believe it or not, not everyone grew up using Outlook [Express] -- nor Internet Explorer, for that matter. Me, I've been using Netscape-family browsers (including Mozilla [Firesomething]) since Netscape 0.9, off and on, and IE has never been my main browser. For mail, I've been using Pine since 1994. So, targetting Outlook is not the only plausible goal for a mail client.