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Thunderbird 0.6

Thunderbird 0.6 is out. The best news is that they added support for IMAP IDLE. Sweet. I mentioned it on my blog a few months ago and the bug was voted high enough to get fixed. Thunderbird is my favorite mail client for non exchange mail as well as my favorite usenet reader.

They also added a real windows installer this time.

I only wish it had the three-column view like Outlook 2003. That view just rocks my world.

note: when I say “three-column view” I also expect the two line message list summary that outlook gives. Doing three panes is easy, doing the multi-line message list is the hard part ;-).

Published Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:19 AM by omars
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# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Monday, May 10, 2004 11:58 PM by Pat
Mozilla Thunderbird is my favorite mail client, too.

Features I wish it had:

Support for deleting mail to a specified folder for deletion (Inbox.Deleted Items in my case).
Support for expunging after moving!
Some kind of GUI for the identity feature which is a really nice feature.

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:56 AM by Frans Bouma
I used thunderbird 0.6 for a short time before I switched to XanaNews, but I did see a 3 column outlook 2003 style option.

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:10 AM by Omar Shahine
It's not the same as Outlook's view. Its just like WinOE's three column view (the item list is a single line rather than the two line view in Outlook).

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:21 AM by Duncan Mackenzie
I wouldn't make your Thunderbird link go right to the download... jarring experience... I clicked it to learn about this tool and suddenly it is trying to download a file...

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:24 AM by Omar Shahine
Fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 5:56 AM by Robert Björn
I agree... the three column view is wonderful, and in fact is the main reason why I went back to Outlook.

# Microsoft: Thunderbird need three-column view like Outlook 2003

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:01 AM by Gemal's Psyched Blog
In Omar Shahine's WebLog: Thunderbird 0.6 is out. The best news is that they added support for IMAP IDLE. Sweet....

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:43 AM by Bogdan Stroe
Thunderbird does have a three column view! See Tools->Options->General->Window Configuration
Enjoy!

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:09 AM by Seth Spitzer
It does have the "three-column view".

Try the "View | Layout | Vertical View" menu item.

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:37 AM by ed
And don't forget about FireFox[1]! Once you try tabs you'll never know how you went so long without them! 0.9 should be out very soon.

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:47 AM by Henrik Gemal
Isn't it a view like this:
http://www.nikush.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1973
you're missing?

# re: Thunderbird 0.6

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:27 AM by Omar Shahine
I would use firefox, but it won't work on our intranet very well cause of repeated authentication. I don't have the time to enter my credentials for every web site I go.

# Thunderbird and Firebird are the best

Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:56 PM by Gašper Odar
Although I don't like the three column view very much myself I also think that Thunderbird and Mozilla are the best e-mail and news clients. And in combination with Firefox, Thunderbird really rocks. So many nice little (and not so little) features that you miss them instantly when using other apps. Congrats to developers.
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