Mozilla Messaging is currently distributing an update to the popular desktop email client Thunderbird. The new version of the email program has not been officially announced yet, this will be done once the distribution to mirror servers worldwide has been completed. This also means that there is no official release log yet, only the beta [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird Conversations, View All Conversation Emails At Once
Pre-Thunderbird 3.3 versions display every email message on their own page. The only way to follow a conversation is to make sure that all messages are included whenever a new message is written. Sure, there is this new option that displays conversations in a threaded structure instead of sorting them into the email listing, but [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Display Thunderbird Email Attachments With Their Full Name
I’m not sure why the developers of the Thunderbird email client have made the decision to limit the visible characters of email attachments in the desktop email application. Attachments in the email client are displayed with a maximum of 14 characters in the beginning, a few dots and one character in the end. That’s problematic [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3.1.6 Security Update Released
The security vulnerability that was discovered two days ago was fixed in the Firefox web browser yesterday with an emergency out of band update. The same vulnerability affects the Thunderbird email client as well, which is why the developer’s have rushed an update for the email software. The update is already available for download. Users [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Email Client Thunderbird 3.1.4 Released
We have already seen lots of updates this week; From the first beta of Internet Explorer 9, to updates for the Firefox web browser and Google Chrome updates. Lots of downloading, updating and testing for a week. An update for the desktop email client Thunderbird was just released, raising the version of the email software [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.3 Released
A new version of the desktop email client Mozilla Thunderbird has been released, raising the version of the client to 3.1.3. The new release is currently distributed to mirror servers to guarantee a rapid deployment for all users once the update notifications are displayed in the email client and on the official website. The release [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3.1.1 Released
A new version of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client is currently processed to be released later today. Thunderbird 3.1.1 fixes several security and stability issues, much like the new Firefox version that was released earlier today. The new version is currently only available on the official Mozilla release ftp server, with a slim chance of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Extend Thunderbird’s Email Search With Unified Search
Thunderbird 3 users have access to a new feature called Quick Filter that enables them to quickly filter the emails of a specific folder in the email client. It is for instance possible to filter by email address, text, attachment, tag or only display emails that are from contacts in the address book, with everything [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3.1 RC2 Released, Final Next Week
Mozilla Messaging has just released the second release candidate of Thunderbird 3.1 with the plan to introduce the final release of Thunderbird 3.1 in the middle of June. Thunderbird 3.1 introduces several new features to the desktop email client, among them the new quick filter toolbar to filter messages in a folder temporarily or permanently, [...]