Software Update: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1

The Mozilla development team is working hard to develop new products. Mozilla Thunderbird is a development of the Mozilla Mail component. They want to develop a standalone mail application that uses the XUL user interface.

Thunderbird has a nice and clear layout, in addition, skins, plug-ins and import modules can be used. This makes it easy to switch from another mail application to Mozilla Thunderbird. The release notes let us know the following:

Since this is our first milestone release, everything is new! Here are some of the highlights:

• Customizable Toolbars and Mail 3-pane
  Toolbars can be customized the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window. Mozilla Thunderbird also supports a new vertical 3-pane configuration (Tools / Options / General), giving you even more choice in how you want to view your mail.
• extensions
  UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experience with specific features and enhancements that you need. Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.
• Contact Manager
  A contacts sidebar for mail compose makes it easy and convenient to add address book contacts to emails.
• Junk Mail Detection
  In addition to automatically detecting junk mail using the same method as Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird also sanitizes HTML in mail marked as junk in order to better protect your privacy and give peace of mind when viewing a message identified as junk.
• New default theme
  Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 sports a crisp, fresh and attractive theme, based on the amazing Qute theme by Arvid Axelsson. This is the same theme used by Mozilla Firebird, giving Thunderbird a similar look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a growing number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
• Stream-lined user interface and simplified Options UI.
• Integrated spell checker.

[break]The following three downloads are available:
Mac OS X
Linux
Windows