Thunderbird 2.0 released

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Thunderbird 2.0 released

by Emily Price Apr 19th 2007

The newest version of Mozilla's open-source email client Thunderbird was released today. Thunderbird 2 has a number of enhancements from the previous 1.5 version making it easier to organize messages and keep your inbox secure. Some of the enhancements include:

Message Tagging: You can now tag your email messages with notes such as "Important" or "To Do" to allow you to better filter through messages later.

Message History Navigation: This feature allows you treat Thunderbird like a web browser and tab "Forward" or "Back" through messages as well as toggle between messages and folder views.

Gmail and .Mac integration: Gmail and .Mac users can access their mail within Thunderbird.

Improved Searching: Searches are done more quickly with Thunderbird 2, and popular searches that you do often are saved within the system to make searching easier.

You can check out the full list of enhancements here .

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