Publisher's Review:
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more.
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive email experience. We designed Thunderbird to prevent viruses and to stop junk
mail so you can get back to reading your mail.
Full-Featured Email
Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set.
Junk Mail Filters
Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird will also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.
Anti-Phishing Protection
Thunderbird protects you from increasingly common email scams—also known as “phishing”—which try to fool you into handing over your passwords and other personal information. Thunderbird will tell you when it thinks a message might be a scam.
Advanced Security
Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features including S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Attachments are never run without your express permission, protecting you from many worms and viruses.
Automatic Updates
The new Software Update feature makes it easy to get the latest security and feature updates to Thunderbird. Thunderbird automatically downloads these small updates in the background and prompts you when they are ready to be installed.
Customize Thunderbird
Select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes—the way Thunderbird looks and works is under your control.
Changelog:
(Mozilla Thunderbird version 3.0 beta 1)
Thunderbird 3 beta 2 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 platform which has more than 10,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, web compatibility, and code simplification and sustainability.
There are over 750 changes in this release, many laying the groundwork for future changes. Some notable changes include:
User Experience Improvements
- Tabbed Email. Email messages, folders, and calendars (with the Lightning extension installed) can be opened in tabs.
- Improved Message Reader View. This is the first stage of a series of refinements to the message reading experience. The first stage brings email controls closer to the area in which the user is operating.
- New Add-ons Manager. The new Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to find, download, and install Thunderbird Add-ons which includes Extensions, Themes, and Plugins. Note that few Add-ons are compatible with this beta at the time of release, as Add-on developers need to upgrade them.
- Improved Address Book. If someone is in your address book, it is indicated by a new star icon which you can click to edit contact details inline. If they are not in your address book, you can add them with one click of the icon. A new birthday field allows you to keep track of your friends' birthdays.
- For Windows Vista users, Thunderbird 3 beta 1 is now integrated with Vista search results. On first start, Thunderbird will prompt to install its indexing system into Windows Vista and you can choose to see Thunderbird email and news messages in Windows search results.
- For Mac users, Thunderbird 3 beta 1 can import from Mail.app, read your OS X address book, and use Growl for new mail alerts.
Performance improvements
- Faster Message Loading for IMAP. Thunderbird will now download IMAP messages in the background to allow for faster message loading, and better offline operation. This feature can be enabled on an individual folder basis (via folder properties), or for all folders in an account, via Account Settings / Sync & Disk Space.
(Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.18)
The following security issues have been fixed:
- MFSA 2008-59 Script access to .documentURI and .textContent in mail
- MFSA 2008-58 Parsing error in E4X default namespace
- MFSA 2008-56 nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() same-origin violation
- MFSA 2008-55 Crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager
- MFSA 2008-52 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.4/1.8.1.18)
- MFSA 2008-50 Crash and remote code execution via __proto__ tampering
- MFSA 2008-48 Image stealing via canvas and HTTP redirect
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