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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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    --- Justin Dearing http://www.justaprogrammer.net/ We're just programmers.
  2. International Rescue by rossdee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whatever happened to Thunderbird 4 ? I always wanted an email client that worked underwater...

  3. Re:gmail by alt236_ftw · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As you said, it depends what you use you email for.

    The fact that *you* don't use your email for anything important, does not mean that *I* don't.

    In my emails accounts (not only GMail) I have contracts, project proposals, contact details, collaborative discussions for projects, things I have emailed to myself as a backup, copyright notices for things I own and have released, etc.
    Not to mention professional discussions, announcements and proposals. And more personal emails as well.

    As organisations move to the cloud (my University is doing so now) one needs to think of What-If scenarios and plan accordingly.

    For example, what happens if you are off-line and want to access an email?