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New Version of Thunderbird

thunderbirdA new version of Thunderbird has been released. The new version, 1.0.7, is only a minor update, but fixes a number of security vulnerabilities. Not that anyone reading this blog will be interested.

Although, I confess, I tried the current beta of Thunderbird out today. It was blisteringly fast on my IMAP accounts, I thought. Ugly as sin, unable to use the many fine plug-ins that exist for Apple Mail and not integrated with OS X’s other apps, but fast.

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One Response to “New Version of Thunderbird”

  1. David Nelson says:
    September 30th, 2005 at 8:31 pm

    Yes, the latest beta of Thunderbird is very fast with IMAP. It includes support for two things that I wish Mail 2 has:

    1. IMAP server side search. If you use an IMAP server that provides server side search, then asking the server to search your email for you is incredibly fast. That Apple mail needs to download anything about my IMAP mail to enable searching is just contrary to the whole IMAP storage idea. IMAP server side search needs to be in Spotlight.

    2. IMAP IDLE. This allows the server to notify the client that new mail is available. Rather than polling the server every X minutes, the server just tells the client that new mail is available.

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