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Thunderbird 0.6

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Thunderbird 0.6 is out. The best news is that they added support for IMAP IDLE. Sweet. I mentioned it on my blog a few months ago and the bug was voted high enough to get fixed. Thunderbird is my favorite mail client for non exchange mail as well as my favorite usenet reader.

They also added a real windows installer this time.

I only wish it had the three-column view like Outlook 2003. That view just rocks my world.

note: when I say “three-column view” I also expect the two line message list summary that outlook gives. Doing three panes is easy, doing the multi-line message list is the hard part ;-).

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
    Mozilla Thunderbird is my favorite mail client, too.

    Features I wish it had:

    Support for deleting mail to a specified folder for deletion (Inbox.Deleted Items in my case).
    Support for expunging after moving!
    Some kind of GUI for the identity feature which is a really nice feature.
  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
    I used thunderbird 0.6 for a short time before I switched to XanaNews, but I did see a 3 column outlook 2003 style option.
  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
    I wouldn't make your Thunderbird link go right to the download... jarring experience... I clicked it to learn about this tool and suddenly it is trying to download a file...
  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
    Fixed. Thanks for letting me know.
  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
    I agree... the three column view is wonderful, and in fact is the main reason why I went back to Outlook.
  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2004
    Thunderbird does have a three column view! See Tools->Options->General->Window Configuration
    Enjoy!
  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2004
    It does have the "three-column view".

    Try the "View | Layout | Vertical View" menu item.
  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2004
    And don't forget about FireFox[1]! Once you try tabs you'll never know how you went so long without them! 0.9 should be out very soon.

    [1] http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2004
    Isn't it a view like this:
    http://www.nikush.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1973
    you're missing?
  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2004
    In Omar Shahine's WebLog: Thunderbird 0.6 is out. The best news is that they added support for IMAP IDLE. Sweet....
  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2004
    I would use firefox, but it won't work on our intranet very well cause of repeated authentication. I don't have the time to enter my credentials for every web site I go.
  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2004
    Although I don't like the three column view very much myself I also think that Thunderbird and Mozilla are the best e-mail and news clients. And in combination with Firefox, Thunderbird really rocks. So many nice little (and not so little) features that you miss them instantly when using other apps. Congrats to developers.