Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Released
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 4:13 PM by Randall
Mozilla released a major update to Thunderbird, their open source email program, today. According to the Thunderbird web site, here are the major changes in Thunderbird 1.5:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an
update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a
megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Sort
address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each
recipient.
* Spell check as you type.
* Saved Search Folders can
now search across multiple accounts.
* Built in phishing detector to
help protect users against email scams.
* Podcasting and other RSS
Improvements.
* Deleting attachments from messages.
* Integration
with server side spam filtering.
* Reply and forward actions for
message filters.
* Kerberos Authentication.
* Auto save as draft
for mail composition.
* Message aging.
* Filters for Global Inbox.
*
Improvements to product usability including redesigned options
interface, and SMTP server management.
* Many security enhancements.
I've downloaded and installed the update, but haven't had a chance to try many of the improvements. I haven't experienced any problems yet: my mail is coming in.