De mensen van Mozilla hebben de open-sourcemailclient Thunderbird een upgrade gegeven naar versie 0.9. De release is vanaf deze server te downloaden voor Windows, MacOS X en Linux. Thunderbird is een open source en crossplatform mail- en newsgroupclient met features zoals een junkmailfilter, spellingcontrole en de mogelijkheid om de functionaliteit verder uit te breiden met behulp van extensions. De release notes van versie 0.9 zien er als volgt uit:
Saved Search FoldersSaved Search Folders display messages based on previously set search criteria. For example, instead of filtering messages into a new folder, you could create a Saved Search Folder that lists all the messages received from a certain person over the past 30 days, even if those messages are stored in different folders and subfolders.
Message GroupingYou can now group messages in a folder by attributes such as date, sender, priority or a custom label. For instance, a folder grouped by date will group messages from today, yesterday, last week, etc. into self-contained groups in the message list pane. (View > Sort By > Grouped By Sort)
Other New FeaturesKnown Issues
- Messages with attachments now get marked as such in the message list pane immediately and not when the message is displayed.
- Improvements to Thunderbird's Global Inbox support for POP3 users.
- The new quick search bar introduced in 0.8 now features a clear button when search text is present inside the quick search box.
- Fixed a regression introduced in 0.8 where a user could not change the local folder path in the Account Manager.
- Improved offline support including fixes for common offline-related problems.
- Improved privacy controls block remote content in e-mail messages from senders not in your address book.
- Long file attachment names are no longer truncated in the message pane.
- Bug fixes too numerous to mention!
- If Thunderbird 0.9 is placed in a location with limited access privileges, it should be run by a user with access to that location first, so that all initial startup files are generated. There may be issues still where if a restricted-access user is the first to run the application, these files may not be generated properly and Thunderbird may enter an infinite restart loop. This will be fixed in a future release.
- The RSS reader does not work if the RSS feed requires a user name and password.
- You cannot create more than one RSS account via the Account Manager.
- Linux: Thunderbird does not properly dispatch browser URLs to the default browser out of the box. Read about about how to make this work here.
- The default dictionary is English-only. To add a non-English dictionary, read the installation instructions.
- Windows users can synch their address book with a Palm device by installing the Palm Sync extension for Thunderbird. Save the file locally and install it from the extensions dialog in Thunderbird. The extension will not show up in the list of extensions.
- The enable/disable option for adaptive junk mail detection appears to apply to all accounts (Tools > Junk Mail Controls > Adaptive Filters). It is, however, a per account option. To set the option for a specific account, choose the account in the 'Account:' dropdown on the 'Settings' panel, then switch to the 'Adaptive Filters' panel and set the option. Repeat per account as needed.
- The default theme is almost finished. There are still some Classic theme icons in the UI. Please do not file bugs about icons not being converted to the new theme.