What Thunderbird 2.0 will bring
Monday, May 29th, 2006
A post on the The Rumbling Edge, Mozilla’s site for cutting-edge developments, lists the features and improvements 
that will appear in Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1.0, which has not yet been released.
Top of the list are custom Folder Pane Views for things like favorites, unread and recently used email. You will also be able to tag messages, and open multiple messages in individual tabs.
The new version will offer built-in notification of new email, which may look something like this:
You will be able to get pop-up summaries of the contents in folders.
Security will be enhanced with an improved Bayesian algorithm and better protection from Phishing.
Lastly, it will offer support for “find as you type” filtering.
The post lists all the many more fixes and improvements in detail, including twelve Mac-specific issues.
I see nothing to tempt me away from Mail.app, but it is interesting to see how Thunderbird is developing.
Tags: email, folders, Mozilla, new features, notification, thunderbird 2.0