MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD 1.0 EMAIL CLIENT HAS LANDED

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http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-12-7.html

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 7, 2004 - The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 email client. Thunderbird focuses on new features and settings to help stop spam and prevent viruses, the two biggest problems facing email users today. Mozilla Thunderbird follows last month's highly successful release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 that has been downloaded by over nine million users.

Today's announcement marks the immediate availability of Thunderbird 1.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux-as a free download from mozilla.org and by CD from the Mozilla Store. Thunderbird is now available in English, German, Greek, and Turkish with more languages on the way.

"Thunderbird 1.0 marks another successful product milestone for the Mozilla Foundation, made possible by hundreds of community volunteers and developers around the world," commented Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. "Thunderbird is the perfect companion to Firefox and demonstrates another success of the open source development model."

Research firms estimate that fighting junk mail and viruses are costing billions of dollars each year. "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 engineer for Thunderbird. "We view Thunderbird as a big step towards providing people with a better email experience."

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1. fp!

I have to keep up Thunderbird because my wife loves it, but I get annoyed with stuff like this:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html

Still, I've been using it lately. It feels better than Mozilla Mail, almost as fast as sylpheed, which had been my fave.

[bemildred]

2. I can see your point.

I mostly want my mail client to get the mail and shutup, and I
use plain old Mozilla these days, but flashy stuff is always better
if it works out of the box.

I don't ordinarily upgrade squat unless I decide it's time to upgrade
FreeBSD, like for new hardware or such things.

But I keep up a Windoze box for my wife too.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Nice. Dumped Eudora for it on my WinTel. Will dump PINE

on the Linux boxes.

Another fine product.