A Preview of Thunderbird 2.0

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Thunderbird 2.0 has made improvements in the area of saved searches, message labels, tags and virtual folders, a "move again" function, a new message alert system, and a history of messages viewed. These improvements were described in a "first look" review at Linux.com on Wednesday.

The reviewer also found some problems in that Thunderbird can still only send e-mail via a single SMTP server. Some settings, like POP and IMAP, are deferred in the account setup, and the preference settings remain confusing. The review also noted that Thunderbird still doesnit have good support for importing from popular e-mail programs.

Much more is covered in this thorough review. Thunderbird is becoming a popular alternative e-mail program on the Macintosh. Now that Qualcomm has announced that future versions of Eudora will be based on the Thunderbird technology platform, Thunderbird, which is an open source project, is getting more and more attention. The current release version of Thunderbird for Mac is at the Mozilla Website.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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