Software Update: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.24

The Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail program can be used, among other things, for reading and sending e-mail, reading and posting to newsgroups and reading RSS feeds. In terms of additional features, Thunderbird is equipped with a junk mail filter, a spell checker, the ability to tag messages and a search function. Furthermore, the program can be extended with addons. The development team has released a new version in the 2.x branch, with 2.0.0.24 as the version number, which fixes several open bugs. The list of customizations looks like this:

Changes in 2.0.0.24:

• Fixed: 284876 – Trunk TB10 crash while sending mail [@ nsMsgLocalMailFolder::WriteStartOfNewMessage() ]
• Fixed: 305168 – Too many recipients when copy/paste address line or sending from MS Access (increase max to 2000)
• Fixed: 376192 – Thunderbird crashes immediately upon accessing IMAP server (duplicate entries in .mailboxlist) [@ nsImapServerResponseParser::mailbox] – imap protocol log “Internal Syntax Error
• Fixed: 387502 – Mailboxes are allowed to grow larger than 4gb in size
• Fixed: 440236 – crash after connection lost [@ nsMsgDatabase::GetTableCreateIfMissing(char const*, char const*, nsIMdbTable**, unsigned int&, unsigned int&)], in v2 [@ nsMsgDatabase::GetTableCreateIfMissing]
• Fixed: 494706 – [1.8 branch only] Thunderbird creates 4 GB Trash file out of less than 200 kB of deleted mail (If data write to file for “target folder of mail move/copy” is temporary interfered by other software, Tb 2 generates file of file_size=4GB-1)
• Fixed: 536129 – Update mail/ copyright dates to 2010
• Fixed: 536667 – Thunderbird 2 app.update.url needs updating to supply OS version information to aus