De Mozilla Foundation zijn open source en crossplatform mail- en usenetclient Thunderdbird vertroeteld met de tweede bètaversie van Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5. Het programma beschikt onder andere over een junkmailfilter, spellingcontrole en de mogelijkheid om de functionaliteit verder uit te breiden via extensions. Op dit moment is alleen de Engelse versie beschikbaar, maar de verwachting is dat de vertalingen snel zullen volgen. De lijst met veranderingen ziet er als volgt uit:
Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2 is a preview of our award-winning email client. Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2 is for our early adopter community, and our Extension developers.
Here's what's new in Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2:[break]De volgende drie downloads staan klaar:
- 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.
- 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.
- Improvements to product usability including redesigned options UI, and SMTP server management.
- Many security enhancements
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