Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 2

Enjoy safe, fast and easy email, Mozilla-style! Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader.

It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too.

It offers a pretty and streamlined interface to a very powerful email package. Not only is Mozilla Thunderbird a secure email client, a sophisticated and very well integrated Bayesian spam filter knocks out most junk mail (after some training).

Combine these two aspects of Mozilla Thunderbird, and you get a sensible feature that automatically sanitizes (potentially dangerous) HTML code and turns off remote images for spam or anything else — worms, viruses — you classify as bad mail. Though not perfect, a scam sensor detects tactics commonly used to fool users.
Mozilla Thunderbird is just as good for good mail as it is against the bad. Flexible views, free-form tags and powerful filters, search and virtual folders (which also work fine with IMAP accounts and across email accounts) make it a snap to handle large amounts of mail. The integrated RSS feed reader extends these abilities to news.

• Mozilla Thunderbird manages multiple POP and IMAP email accounts and reads RSS feeds.
• A junk mail filter using Bayesian statistics cans spam automatically in Mozilla Thunderbird.
• Mail views, free-form message tags and flexible filters let you organize and prioritize good mail easily.
• Searches can be saved to virtual folders that automatically aggregate relevant mail in Thunderbird.
• Mozilla Thunderbird offers rich, but security and privacy conscious HTML formatting support.
• Mail classified as junk can automatically be sanitized, Thunderbird detects common scam tactics.
• S/MIME support lets you encrypt and sign mail in Mozilla Thunderbird (OpenPGP plug-in available).
• You can run Mozilla Thunderbird from a removable medium such as USB stick.
• Many extensions more allow Mozilla Thunderbird to expand its feature set or improve usability.
• Mozilla Thunderbird supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.2-10.4 and Linux.

Keep Your Vital Information Organized
Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.

Secure and Protect Your Mail
Mozilla has bolstered Thunderbird’s acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. It’s like having your own security guard online.

Get Your Mail, Your Way
Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.

What’s New in Thunderbird 3 Beta 1:
Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 platform which has more than 10,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, web compatibility, and code simplification and sustainability.
There are over 750 changes in this release, many laying the groundwork for future changes. Some notable changes include:

User Experience Improvements
* Tabbed Email. Email messages, folders, and calendars (with the Lightning extension installed) can be opened in tabs.
* Improved Message Reader View. This is the first stage of a series of refinements to the message reading experience. The first stage brings email controls closer to the area in which the user is operating.
* New Add-ons Manager. The new Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to find, download, and install Thunderbird Add-ons which includes Extensions, Themes, and Plugins. Note that few Add-ons are compatible with this beta at the time of release, as Add-on developers need to upgrade them.
* Improved Address Book. If someone is in your address book, it is indicated by a new star icon which you can click to edit contact details inline. If they are not in your address book, you can add them with one click of the icon. A new birthday field allows you to keep track of your friends’ birthdays.
* For Windows Vista users, Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 is now integrated with Vista search results. On first start, Thunderbird will prompt to install its indexing system into Windows Vista and you can choose to see Thunderbird email and news messages in Windows search results.
* For Mac users, Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 can import from Mail.app, read your OS X address book, and use Growl for new mail alerts.

Performance improvements
* Faster Message Loading for IMAP. Thunderbird will now download IMAP messages in the background to allow for faster message loading, and better offline operation. This feature can be enabled on an individual folder basis (via folder properties), or for all folders in an account, via Account Settings / Sync & Disk Space.

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