Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0

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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Found 3 bugs in the first 3 minutes

[Andy_R]

I'm disappointed. No new features I actually want, at least 1 of the bugs I'm really annoyed about not fixed, and at least 1 new bug added.

Firstly, doing a 'check for updates' in the old version (1.5 for OS X, I think) told me there wasn't a new one. Then when I manually downloaded, installed and got past the inevitable 'we broke all the extensions' message, it's ignoring my preference to show text not icons in the toolbars. So I go into preferences, and it's saying I'm showing text only. I workround by switching to text plus icons then back to text only. It's decided to ignore my custom toolbar settings from the old version, so I manually rebuild them the way I like them. The text doesn't line up, 'get mail' floats half a line too high, and 'tag' is out of line too. The gaps between the text isn't consistent horizontally, there's more space around 'junk' than other tools.

Then the real pain, viewing full headers is still totally broken. The header text doesn't wrap, it ignores text size changes, and it can't be cut and pasted either. This means that I can't see the crucial part of the header that says the original 'to' address, after it's been forwarded to the catch-all on my domain, as it's on a line that's longer than my monitor is wide. So I still can't unsubscribe from a couple of (now spam dominated) Yahoo groups that I signed up to with throwaway names, as I have can't read the header to find out the throwaway name I used!

The jury is still out on the other annoying bug, where the automated 'compact folders' and automated 'get mail' try to run at the same time as each other and throw up a message blaming me for not waiting for one to finish before the other.