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 [...]
Thunderbird Filter Additions
The email client Mozilla Thunderbird comes with a few mail filters preinstalled that can be used to automatically process incoming emails. The actions that can be selected as a Thunderbird filter are limited to moving, copying, deleting, forwarding or tagging messages, adding stars, setting mail priorities, marking as read, setting the junk status or replying [...]
Thunderbird 3 Beta 1
It felt like development for the email client Thunderbird came almost to an halt in the last twelve months. Yes, updates were released but most of them were security related. Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 is the first beta release of the upcoming version 3 of the email client. This version will introduce some long needed [...]
Thunderbird 3.0 alpha 1
A release version of Thunderbird 3.0 alpha 1 has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp site yesterday and is available for public download. Currently only the US-Version of the popular email client is available on the ftp site which can be installed on all supported operating systems including Linux, Windows and Apple Macintosh systems.
There is [...]
Thunderbird 3 Planning
David Ascher has published a Thunderbird 3 Planning mail where he details so called high level points and a rough road map for Thunderbird 3. The main goal is to publish a public milestone build of Thunderbird 3 in 2008, with alpha builds in the first quarter, beta builds without calendering in Q2, beta builds with calendering in Q3 and widely useful builds in Q4, subject to change of course depending on development progress.

