Mozilla Thunderbird 2 takes flight

Mozilla on Thursday launched Thunderbird 2, the latest version of its free, open-source e-mail client featuring message tagging and customization.

Thunderbird 2, with its enhanced features, is intended to ease the organization of e-mail via message tags, advanced folder viewing, and speedier inbox and message searching.

Thunderbird 2

Under its message tagging feature, users can assign single or multiple custom tags to their e-mail, such as "from mom" or "weekend projects." Users would also be able to assign default tags, as well.

"In Thunderbird 2, we incorporated the proven benefits of tagging to e-mail," Scott MacGregor, Mozilla's lead engineer for Thunderbird, said in a statement. "Tagging initially gained popularity on blogs, photo and link-sharing sites as an intuitive way to organize online information."

Thunderbird 2's customization features are designed to allow users to create their own message template, or use any hundreds of free add-ons to change the appearance and functionality of their e-mail client.

Thunderbird 2 also includes a backward-forward function to browse messages, and allows users to save e-mail searches in folders for reuse.

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Thunderbird & gmail
by stercor April 19, 2007 11:01 AM PDT
Can Thunderbird 2.0 be used with gmail.com?
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No match for Outlook Express
by shantanu77 April 19, 2007 9:29 PM PDT
I have 'tried' to use thunderbird many times. Each time I import my outlook express mail, it become dead slow. I dont think it still is capable of handling large number of mails. I really think the new updates should be related to handling large amount of mail in the place of providing fancy stuffs.
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Longtime T-bird user
by dburr13 April 22, 2007 7:59 PM PDT
I've been using Thunderbird for a couple of years and i like it alot...I hadn't thought to add Gmail to it..but now i have and it really was easy to set up.
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