Mozilla Foundation Releases Thunderbird 0.6 - Latest email client is easier, faster and safer than ever before
The Mozilla Foundation today announced the release of its next generation email client, Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.6. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) May 4, 2004 -– The Mozilla Foundation today
announced the release of its next generation email client, Mozilla Thunderbird
version 0.6. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever
before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent
spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.
“This release, with our security and IMAP improvements, marks a big step
forward in our efforts to produce a best of breed cross platform e-mail client
ready for the enterprise,” commented Scott MacGregor, Engineering Lead for
Mozilla Thunderbird.
Thunderbird 0.6 packs an array of powerful new
features that make email easier to use:
- A new installer for Windows makes
it a breeze to start using Thunderbird.
- Improved Junk Mail Controls.
Thunderbird’s spam filters, which get smarter as you teach them what is spam and
what’s not, have been re-designed to learn faster and catch more spam.
- The
Mac OS X version of Thunderbird sports a beautiful new theme that matches the OS
X look and feel. The theme, and a spiffy new Thunderbird logo, were created by
the Mozilla project’s Visual Identify Team.
- Improved support for IMAP
protocol extensions makes Thunderbird the perfect solution for enterprise users,
who are already deploying Thunderbird to up to 50,000 users at a time.
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Secure Password Authentication. Thunderbird includes Secure Password
Authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for
IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
Thunderbird also includes numerous bug fixes and
incremental improvements that make 0.6 the most usable and stable version of
Thunderbird to date.
Thunderbird is a project of the Mozilla Foundation.
The Mozilla project is riding a wave of industry, media and end user praise for
the Mozilla 1.6 Internet suite and recently released technology previews of the
organization’s next generation Mozilla Firefox browser. Approximately 3 million
users have downloaded Mozilla Firefox 0.8 since it was released on February 9.
The rapidly growing demand for Mozilla applications continues to showcase the
innovative capacity and excellence of the open source development model.
Getting Thunderbird
Thunderbird 0.6 may be downloaded at no charge
from www.mozilla.org. Alternatively users can purchase a CD edition
from the Mozilla Foundation’s web site. Mozilla applications run on a wide range
of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and are
translated into dozens of languages. The source code and documentation for all
Mozilla applications is freely available under the open source Mozilla Public
License.
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About the Mozilla Foundation
Established in July 2003 with
start-up support from America Online's Netscape division, the Mozilla Foundation
exists to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla
open source software project. The Foundation is based in Mountain View,
California and is the heir to the great legacy and tradition of the Internet’s
first widely used browser, Netscape.
Mozilla and the Mozilla logo are
registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation.
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