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Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird (threatpost.com)
Mozilla has issued a critical security update to its popular open-source Thunderbird email client. From a report The patch was part of a December release of five fixes that included two bugs rated high and one rated moderate and another low. Mozilla said Thunderbird, which is also serves as a news, RSS and chat client, the latest Thunderbird 52.5.2 version released last week fixes the vulnerabilities. The most serious of the fixes is a critical buffer overflow bug (CVE-2017-7845) impacting Thunderbird running on Windows operating system. The bug is present when "drawing and validating elements with angle library using Direct 3D 9," according to the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory. US-Cert said it encourages users and administrators to review the patch and apply the necessary update.
Thunderbird is open source if that's of consequence to you. It's freely available and not paid for like Outlook. It will also store your email locally so that if you are offline you can still get your email and not rely on cloud providers to always be available to you.
Can’t. Too busy SJWing the product and slapping a Code of Conduct in the EULA.
Thunderbird can two-way sync with Google Calendar and Contacts. Outlook didn't the last time I checked, although I hear it can as of the newest version.
Outlook stores everything in a huge PST file; Thunderbird uses textual mbox files and a simple directory structure.
Moving a Thunderbird profile (which includes all settings, contacts, mail, saved passwords, accounts, everything) from one place to another is as simple as copying the ~/.thunderbird or %appdata%\Thunderbird folder to the same place in the other user account; Outlook has to be set up from scratch every single time and have the PST files imported and the placeholder empty PST they forcibly create (again, perhaps not with newer versions) disabled and deleted manually.
Thunderbird is light-years faster than Outlook.
Thunderbird is open source.
Thunderbird works on Linux.
Thunderbird is free as in both beer and freedom.
Thunderbird has better view options, a simpler interface, a massively better heuristic junk mail filter, way nicer IMAP integration (none of that strike-through nonsense when you delete mail), and it even handles RSS feeds extremely well.
Relative to Gmail, it's a local mail app so it's much faster to work with, it's less confusing that Gmail, the icons for everything are clearer than the stupid decisions made by Gmail, and the folder organization is much easier to use than the brain-dead "labels-as-folders" in Gmail.
The message filter capabilities are way better and more useful than both Outlook and Gmail, the search functionality is more robust than both, and searches can be saved as "search folders" that dynamically build based on a desired search.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Source: used Thunderbird for roughly a decade, converted many businesses to it despite external pressures to use Outlook.
Oh, one tip: if someone sends an Outlook-specific winmail.dat email to you, get the LookOut extension for Thunderbird and it'll let you view it as a normal email.
Well, they still did... I still wonder what was wrong with simple menus. The hamburger menu is just so dumb on desktop applications. (Hell, even on mobile it's just a cop-out)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
I made mention of this because this story came out yesterday: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
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