Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0

An anonymous reader writes "The Mozilla Corporation has released Thunderbird 2.0.0. Among the improvements are Message Tagging, updated UI, Advanced Folder Views, Better New Mail Notification and Full Support for Windows Vista and 64-bit versions of Windows."

Looks great but

[BeoCluster]

Can I Make a Beowulf Cluster of Thunderbird's Email client to create the biggest spam zombiez army evar ?

Yikes!

[ez76]

Folder views? New mail notification?

Watch your back, Eudora for Windows 3.1!

Re:Good for them, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, stop posting such lies under my name!

Re:Painful marketing

[ZachPruckowski]

I know! I came in with 2 questions:

1) How's the Mail.app importing?
2) Does it work with Spotlight

These are crucial questions that affect whether I even consider switching, and the info pages say nothing.

Compile your own 64-bit! Here's how :

[digitalderbs]

You have to compile your own. I compile mine on Ubuntu Edgy 64-bit. This will get you started :

1. Download source [mozilla.org]
2. Run configure with the following command (this solves a compile time known bug in gcc 4)
   
   ac_cv_visibility_pragma=no ./configure --enable-application=mail
3. make and sudo make install

This is what I posted...

[robertlagrant]

I posted this one to here a few hours ago, thought you might prefer this version of the story :)

Mozilla's Thunderbird email software has reached version 2.0.0.0 [mozilla.com]. Includes tagging messages, quick navigation through threads, improved (and saved) searches, and (most usefully for some) support for checking .mac and gmail. Reports that Thunderbird 2 may contain a mole [thunderbirdsonline.co.uk] were quickly quashed.

Real Ninjas Use Thunderbird

[sherriw]

I've read lots of posts about how most people use webmail or whatever their ISP gives them. Well.... that may be true but we all know that the really cool ninjas own their own domain so they can create unlimited email addresses, spam-traps, forwards, mail lists and all kinds of other ninja-like cool stuff. Every time I see a techie person who's using his/her cogeco or hotmail address, I just laugh.

Yes, I am a cool email ninja. :)

Re:Minor annoyance but...

[asobala]

Because Thunderbird 2 is an international rescue craft [wikipedia.org].

Re:Cross Platform UI/Widgets Are Jarring On OS X

[hollywoodb]

It has to be that the OS X desktop/app toolkit and widgets really are THAT much more refined/polished/whatever than other OSes.

Perhaps...

I don't want to come off as an Apple fanboy...

Treading on thin ice...

running non-native apps on OS X really brings to light just how much more elegant and modern OS X is compared to others. I don't know why Windows or Linux can't seem to get anywhere near the elegance and polish that Apple seems to be solely able to.

...and drowning.

Re:Good for them, but...

[empaler]

by spamking (967666) [slashdot.org] on 2007-04-19 14:14 (#18795975 [slashdot.org])

I'd rather let Gmail deal with filtering the SPAM first and then deal with the stuff that slips through.

Oh... kay?

Re:Good for them, but...

[spamking]

Heh . . . I guess almost everyone could use a little male enhancement product every now and then.