12:58 PM
Internet New features in Thunderbird 0.8

Yippee!!! Neil's World - New features in Thunderbird 0.8

The main things that caught my eye:

• Global Inbox - when adding a new POP3 account, you can choose to have mail delivered to Local Folders, as opposed to creating a new set of folders for each account. This was a big gripe among some users with many accounts, and it now means that Thunderbird can more closely imitate OE
• Get All Mail - the Get Messages icon now has a submenu that also lets you get mail from all accounts or select a specific account. This is a feature in Mozilla Mail that was missing in Thunderbird.
• Better quick search - it offers a greater level of control and allows you to use it to search the message body too.
• Ability to import mail and settings from Mozilla Mail

Thank god for the Global Inbox! v0.8 will be the one I'll start recommending that everybody switch to it, that's the thing I've been waiting for - along with the ability to view messages without loading remote images and being able to switch easily between plain text view and html view make Thunderbird the best and safest email program. Plus they'll have RSS feeds which will make it even spiffier! I've been using an extension to get RSS feeds but it's a bit clunky so I'll be looking to see how Thunderbird handles it.

And just remember folks, this is from a DIE-HARD OE user of six years! Took me a few weeks to get comfortable with Thunderbird but it was definitely worth it.