walkah: Thunderbird goes 2.0

7 May 2007

Thunderbird goes 2.0

Get Thunderbird!I know I'm a couple weeks late posting this, but the fine folks at Mozilla finally released Thunderbird 2.0. Now, I've wasted a lot of your time here in the past waffling between mail clients... but I've been using thunderbird consistently since the 2.0 betas and I think it might finally stick. Here's why (for me):

  • Favorite folders: this feature allows you to mark certain folders (email folders, RSS feeds or saved searches) as "favorites" and you can limit the left-hand pane to view only those folders. For me, since I use procmail heavily to sort mailing list traffic, etc. this is a great feature for seeing my most "important" folders.
  • UI updates: like Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird got some subtle yet very pleasant UI updates - check them out for yourself. I also like the sound of this hack to make tags look prettier.
  • Tags: like the old "labels" messages can now have optionally multiple tags. I know after I read GTD I'm going to love this one even more.

Also, while not a core feature, I'm very pleased with the new Growl add-on for new message notification (I had been using YAMB before which wasn't optimal.

Still on my wishlist: sender pictures (preferably from LDAP userpicture or mac address book integration) and better offline detection for OS X. Otherwise, I love it.

Great information to have!

May 8, 2007 - 12:46am

Great information to have! I've been using Portable Thunderbird on my usb drive for a while now, maybe I should install 2.0 to my laptop and have it be my main e-mail client. Thanks for posting.

Exporting emails from Mozilla Thunderbird

May 31, 2007 - 12:05pm

Hi again (Richard from the UK here!!),

I recently installed Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 as I was sick of Outlook XP crashing on me. One thing I'm struggling to find is a way to export emails. Any ideas, or am I missing the blindingly obvious here? (always possible - I'm no techie!!).

Is there a Thunderbird Growl

October 9, 2007 - 3:37am

Is there a Thunderbird Growl extension that will let you specify a list of folders to ignore?

Otherwise, if you're on a couple of busy mailing lists, it becomes kind of pointless.

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