Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Released, Finally

[feefref09]

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 0 Released Finally

me too

Thanks Chris for the custom icon on contacts grid, now the grid have the same nice effect when pressed like programs grid. Im happy

[BlackStar]

Been using it since the first beta. Quite solid. And looks a bit better too; Gtk styles are followed more correctly (just like in FF3 vs FF2), probably due to the updated Gecko/Xulrunner. The new features aren't that useful to me though. What was useful, was the flawless import of all my TB 2.x email.

+1

Additionally, I love the feature where imap folders with *new* unread messages are highlighted, this is a real time saver for mailing lists and the like.

[RealNC]

Been using it since the first beta. Quite solid. And looks a bit better too; Gtk styles are followed more correctly (just like in FF3 vs FF2), probably due to the updated Gecko/Xulrunner. The new features aren't that useful to me though. What was useful, was the flawless import of all my TB 2.x email.

[Yfrwlf]

"and much more"

Oh come come, there's only a few more insignificant things, otherwise you would have listed them.

Can't wait to give this a go, was waiting for this. For one thing, traditional email clients allow you to get mail from several different accounts at once, something that web mail interfaces won't let you do (if you are using Gmail and the like, for instance). It can be a nice way to have all your email be centralized.

[alazyworkaholic]

Nuts, I wanted to avoid problems. Unless there's a reasonably stable TB3 repository I guess I'll just have to do it manually. Thanks anyway.

[Peterson Spaceport]

There's this, but.. daily builds =/

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa

and it will probably pull firefox packages along.

[alazyworkaholic]

PPA?

If Ubuntu's Gods don't give us TB3 through normal 9.10 package updates, & I think they normally don't until the next release, can I get it through a PPA or something that doesn't involve manually installing it? I try to stick to apt.

[clavko]

What's in the name? Thunderbird 2 series was already quite polished piece of software and at the same time we're talking about very mature technology. You could argue that development of Gecko mandated the parallel development of FF & TB series 1 and 2, however, I think that web browser is more of a challenge than an e-mail client. I've installed TB 3 and consider it nothing more than an light evolution step. And as far as I'm concerned, it's a positive thing.

[Peterson Spaceport]

I gave up on e-mail clients a long time ago.

IMO, Thunderbird 3 should be what Raindrop wants to be =)

[BlackStar]

Most developers worked on Firefox after Thunderbird 2.0 was released. But since earlier this year, they have accelerated the development of Thunderbird again and already plan to release 3.1 in the not too distant future.

Good to hear. Hope it doesn't take another 2 years for a refresh (we want shiny new features, dammit!)