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Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives

Posted by Zonk on from the fresh-from-their-brains-to-your-door dept.

Tech Support writes "Thunderbird 1.5 is here! It's ready to download, so get going. Finally, Firefox 1.5 has its counterpart. New features included automatic updates, anti-phishing protection, inline spellchecking, saved search folders, podcasting, RSS improvements, the ability to delete attachments from messages, and a whole lot more."

6 of 399 comments (clear)

  1. Deleting attachments from messages. by aphoenix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's a tasty feature. Why isn't there a "Spread Thunderbird" website? mmm... Spread...

  2. it is by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It'd be nice if they were aware of each other.

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  3. Podcasting? In an email application?? by timbck2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can anyone say "feature creep"?

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  4. Re:Vertical Panes? by davidstrauss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, but it sucks because Thunderbird doesn't support the part that makes it workable: multiline listings for the messages. You can't comfortably fit message data in a small column without a creative layout.

  5. Re:Does it move sent mail into the appropriate fol by MemRaven · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The problem is that it's pretty easy to get a pretty massive web-mail account these days (free for GMail, very little cost for anybody else), but try getting an IMAP account with 2GB+ of mail space. I mean, seriously. If I could find one, I would gladly pay a reasonable amount of money for it, but I've never seen one that offers:
    • A reasonable (1GB+) amount of disk space.
    • IMAP and webmail access.
    I've seen various combinations (particularly a large amount of disk space with POP), but never a really good IMAP service. If someone knows of one please let me know!
  6. no, they don't by penguin-collective · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So we'll have TBird, Firefox, and a Calendar all running off 3 instances of the same runtime engine - hey, that's SMART!

    Yes, it is, because it means that they all can use different versions of the runtime engine.

    For the life of me, I can't figure out:

    Well, keep thinking about it, maybe eventually you will figure it out. It makes sense to me: Firefox, Thunderbird, and OOo get the job done with a memory footprint, speed, and release dates that I can live with. That's what counts.