Thursday, April 19, 2007

Thunderbird 2.0 Is Now Available

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Windows/Mac/Linux: The good folks at Mozilla dropped the latest version 2.0 of the Thunderbird email client today, which supports Gmail-like tagging, Windows Vista and better search capabilities.

Gmail users will love this T-bird build, which makes setting up a Gmail POP account a one-step affair. My initial tests, searching over an archive of thousands of messages, show that T-bird 2's search-as-you-type is quite snappier than past versions; and while I'm not yet used to the tagging interface, it's definitely a step in the right direction. One thing I'd love to see in the future is support for already-assigned tags on downloaded Gmail messages. (They call me a dreamer.) See what Rick had to say about T-bird 2.0's RC1. Thunderbird 2 is a free download for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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