Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

The Thunderbird email client team is making progress. They released Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 yesterday for public download. Interested users should keep in mind that this is a beta version of the email client. It feels very stable but it can still produce bugs that might delete things unrecoverably. It is therefor not suggested to try out Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 in a work environment. More than 342 changes have been made between beta 1 and beta 2, many bug fixes but some more notable ones include new features like the archiving feature that has been taken right from Gmail. Thunderbird is automatically creating a new entry Archives in the mail folder structure with subfolders for years and months.

Messages can be archived pressing the A key highlighted or by using the archive button that appears in the header area of each message. They will be automatically sorted into the correct year and month folder in the mail structure. That’s very handy for users who receive lots of messages per day that they have to keep.

Another change is a central activity manager that lists the most recent changes in the email client, e.g. retrieving or moving mail. That’s not a lot of new features but Thunderbird was already a very solid mail client. Especially the archiving feature can save lots of time for some users. Thunderbird 3 beta 2 is available for all supported operating systems and languages.

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7 Responses to “Thunderbird 3 Beta 2”

1. arun says:

   February 28, 2009 at 2:16 pm

   very nice

   Reply
2. Ben says:

   March 1, 2009 at 8:00 am

   I read this on a thunderbird 3.1 beta rss reader :]

   Reply
3. Emma says:

   June 28, 2009 at 8:34 am

   Prefer the new Postbox to Thunderbird. Search features are helpful and looks good on the Mac.

   http://www.postbox-inc.com

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   [...] Windows/Mac/Linux: Love yourself a little Thunderbird? Mozilla’s desktop email client has released an update for early adopters in the form of Thunderbird 3 Beta 2. The majority of changes in this release come in the form of massive bug fixes, but you’ll also see cool new features like archiving (à la Gmail) and the new Activity Manager, which helps to give you a better idea of what Thunderbird is actually doing at any given time. Lastly, you’ll also see better Growl notifications on OS X and more keyboard shortcuts. [Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 via gHacks] [...]

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