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Beta For Thunderbird 5.0 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-and-improved,-now-with-larger-numbers dept.

scdeimos writes "Mozilla has announced the release of Thunderbird 5.0b1, the first in their new rapid release cycles. According to the Thunderbird Beta FAQ, Thunderbird 4 was skipped, as the program's version is now tied to the underlying Gecko engine."

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  1. Re:gmail by j-pimp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use gmail exclusively for sending and receiving mail. However, I keep thunderbird running the the background to backup my mail. I use thunderbird as opposed to something like fetchmail because when I am offline I can revert to thunderbird as a client, and I backup my calendar and contacts with it.

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