RSSMozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0
By Nate Mook | Published December 7, 2004, 11:45 AM
The Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0 of its Thunderbird open source e-mail client, calling it the "perfect companion" to last month's Firefox debut. Thunderbird development has focused on features to stop spam and viruses that plague inboxes, as well as integrating useful tools such as an RSS news reader.
Thunderbird hits spam head on with adaptive filters built to learn from junk mail that manages to sneak through. For added security, the client also supports message encryption, digital signing, certificates, and security devices.
"We think people will benefit from our adaptive junk mail filters in addition to new features like saved search folders and RSS integration," said Scott MacGregor, lead Thunderbird engineer.
Following an approach similar to Firefox's migration support from Internet Explorer and Netscape, Thunderbird imports mail from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Netscape Communicator. Like Firefox, Thunderbird also supports extensions that allow third parties to add on features such as synchronization with Palm powered devices.
"We view Thunderbird as a big step towards providing people with a better e-mail experience," said MacGregor.
Thunderbird 1.0 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux via FileForum.
It appears that the folks at Mozilla are doing a browser check and are only posting the link to download Thunderbird if you are using Firefox!! I tried going to the same page with IE and there is no download link!! HA! Greatest web trick ever!
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|http://www.mgillespie.pl...Mozilla/Thunderbird.htm
Just compiled the source using Visual Studio .NET 2003, and compiled in support for SSE2 P4 processors. These builds will only work on systems with SSE2 instruction set (P4, Newer Celerons, AMD64 etc.)
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|These "optimized" builds are silly. Show me some noticeable performance difference between builds.
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|There is a simple answer, don't use them...
I can see a noticable difference on my system, that's why I go to the effort to compile optimised for my processor.
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|While this applies to Firefox, it does highlight the difference processor optimisation can do,,
http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/M2.pdf
You can apologise here, or in private, I have no preference...
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|Benchmarks of a different application built using different optimizations running on a different processor are _completely_ irrelevant.
Also, enabling a particular CPU-specific optimization normally does not translate into an across-the-board improvement in speed. Only certain code patterns are candidates for such optimizations. Thus, just because one application benefits from optimization doesn't mean another will.
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|Both Firefox an Thunderbird share much the same code, the Geko layout engine, XUL user interface. Any speed improvmens that optimisation gives in Firefox are likely to also appear in Thunderbird. There are some specific patches applied that reduce the number of instructions required for some specific functions like string copying etc, on SSE2.
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|1) The ability to set a preference so that it sends all mail in plain text only by default, without me having to go Tools/Format/etc. for each and every email. Tried looking googling around the net to see if I could find an option for the user.js file that would accomplish that, however it was not to be.
2) Ability to set header fields by default. You can set your user.js so that headers like PGP-Key, PGP-Fingerprint, Sender, etc. are included as fields that can be filled out in mail much the same as you fill out the To, CC and BCC fields. However you have fill them out each and every time you want to send an email. You should be able to set an option in user.js to specify a default value for each header field if you so desire.
Other than those wishlist items, this is the best email client around.
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|1) Tools > Options > Composition > Send Options..
You can change a default action and/or specify domain which should receive HTML/Plain Text
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|Really the only negative that stops me from not using HTML based email are it's filters. For some reason it's filters do not include the most basic filter options. Which are:
1) Only download messages off of server that are in my contacts.
2) Delete off server messages that are not in my contacts.
What Thunderbird does is DOWNLOADS the messages and then will do the "are they in your contacts" check. Then it will do the action asked. Like Delete or flag as junk. DUMB!
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|You can setup Thunderbird only to retrieve the headers and you CAN make a filter which deletes the mails from the POP server if they are not in your address book.
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|I use for news and SMTP. Outlook I use for Exchange (Work) Both have their pluses and minuses. I see this as replacing Outlook Express, not Outlook. Groupware in Outlook won't be beaten for a while.
Also, I use Outlook 2000/2002. I find OL 2003 annoying with it's additional uneeded features.
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|Thunderbird is great, but for the same RAM usage I can use Outlook 2003 which looks a bit nicer and doesn't have that retarded "one-SMTP" system (though I found v-idenitity plugin helpful here).
Anyway this is the best free e-mail client available, but I think those that own (or don't pay *ahem*) will stick/use Outlook 2k3.
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|or of course mulberry
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|It would be good if this supported Exchange server.
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|It does. Thunderbird works perfect with IMAP, actually it's the best one around for IMAP if you ask some of the MS developers. The problem with exchange is it's based on a closed format. For the address book you can use LDAP, just like outlook does. The only things you can't do is get complete calendar/project and notes support. But then again, it's just a mail program not an exchange replacement(yet).
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|I use multiple SMTPs
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