Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 RC1: mail client from Mozilla

19th April 2007

A new testing version of the popular mail client Thunderbird has been released. Despite of the free status, the program has all the necessary tools for manual work with e-mail: spam filtering system, the ability of reading news through RSS, the opportunity to sort messages into folders basing on various criteria - by date, by sender, etc. Besides, they have implemented in Thunderbird a system of virtual folders, similar to the system in The Bat. The latest version has the following innovations: Creating of tags for messages organizing. Each message can get an unlimited number of tags; The improved interface theme; They have added buttons “Back” and “Next” for navigation through the history of messages; They added also new expanded ways of folders viewing - you can look through the last, unread or favorite folders; The rapid registration for users of Gmail and .Mac; The improved support of extensions: now with the help of extensions you can add columns in the list of messages. Besides, the user himself can now transfer the extensions to his language; The improved notifications about new letters - now such notifications have the theme of a message, information about the sender and the first lines of the letter; The option of previewing new messages when you direct the cursor over the name of the folder; The search option now is dynamic - messages corresponding to the inquiry are selected during text typing; An updated installator for Windows. It is based on a system from Nullsoft; Added support for Windows Vista.