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Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the come-and-get-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mozilla Corporation has released Thunderbird 2.0.0. Among the improvements are Message Tagging, updated UI, Advanced Folder Views, Better New Mail Notification and Full Support for Windows Vista and 64-bit versions of Windows."

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  1. Re:IMAP by Gr8Apes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I use IMAP and Thunderbird - and so do all my customers. POP3 is just way too insecure, Outlook is sucky and Thunderbird is the perfect solution. Outlook sucks rocks yes, but Thunderbird 1.5 wasn't a shining beacon either. There's several UI decisions that just suck rocks in Thunderbird (search kinda blows, although worlds better than Outlook). Mac's Mail is better in some ways, but it's not the panacea I'm looking for either. I still feel like I'm in circa 1992 with Eudora. Mail clients have essentially stagnated since then with very little improvement from a user perspective. Maybe TB 2.0 will fix that. I'll be looking forward to trying it out.

    POP3 is perfectly secure in SSL mode. IMAP is supposed to add some features, but is not inherently more secure than POP3.

    Maybe think before you write such generalising statements. As should you.
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  2. Re:But the big hole is... Calendaring and contacts by neutrino38 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I use Thunderbird both at work and at home.

    This release contains probably a lot of improvment under th hood but what really misses is:

    • Support for Outlook calender on PC
    • Support for an Opensource calender server with the ability to change the calendar from within the GUI
    • A way to synchronize calendars between Thunderbird on different workstation
    • Syncronisation of calendar with Mobile devices
    • Synchronisation of contact with Mobile devices
    • SMS / MMS management from within TB

    For Mac OS X users like me, I would add:

    • Native support of Mac OS X address book
    • Enable spotlight to search within the mails
    • Native support of Mac Calendar (don't reinvent the wheel ;..)
    • Support of iSync for synchronsation with mobile devices (don't reinvent the wheel ;..)

    This would be a proper 2.0 release.

    I would also suggest also to write or improve extentions connecting TB with proeminents CRM software (Salesforce, Surgar CRM, ...).

    PS: I tried Sunbird but was not convinced.