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A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta
lisah writes "Linux.com has reviewed Mozilla's first beta release of the Thunderbird 2.0 email client and says that, while it 'won't knock your socks off,' there are plenty of reasons to try it out or upgrade from previous versions. The new Thunderbird does away with the limitations of labels and instead allows users to tag emails to their heart's content, in the same vein as Google's GMail. Developers also tossed in a bunch of other useful features like customizable pop-up notification of new email, better search capabilities, and a neat way to navigate through the history of recently read emails. Mozilla developers didn't get everything right, however, since the account setup continues to be something of a headache."
At work using Outlook, I edit inbound messages all the time to add a quick note to the top or whatever. E.g., drag a message to my "to do" folder and turn it into a note page for the task. I really miss this at home. So much so that I would switch (back) to Outlook at home, if it would learn to use IMAP better.
Yes, this allows one to make an inbound message look different than what you received, but that's the point. If you want to prove that you didn't write what is in someone else's mailbox, sign everything with PGP. Email is insecure, we might as well make it easier to use... besides, how hard is it to tag a message as modified? Isn't that what custom header tags are for?