Thunderbird 3 released

I just installed it. It looks substantially better due to a less cluttered interface, and search seems vastly improved. So far, I'm impressed.

&#62; The new attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send.<p>I'm embarrassed to admit that this will help me considerably.

I'm in heaven.<p>I just performed the same search I spent 10 minutes on a couple days ago to see if the new search would have worked better under those circumstances, and I was able to narrow it down and find the missing message in under 2 minutes.<p>Fantastic work Thunderbird Team!!!!

Vimperator fans will want to monitor the Muttator add-on page for updates: <a href="http://www.vimperator.org/muttator" rel="nofollow">http://www.vimperator.org/muttator</a>

Thunderbird, Firefox and Emacs. Seriously, the three pieces of software my life would be meaningless without. Greasemonkey and Lisp are the crack cocaine of software, that is, if crack allowed you to realize an innate higher potential in yourself.<p>I have never scripted it myself, but I have paid someone else to do it and my thunderbird add-ons account for at least 20% of my income. If you're doing a lot of marketing and lead generation, you owe it to yourself to tame this beast to your advantage. Specially for one-person shops, you can bypass the whole CRM shenanigans with a well kept TB strategy. Good luck!

Looks like it tries to download every email in Gmail and index it locally. God. My maillist subscription just made my HDD explode. Didn't IMAP provide some sort of search function already?

This seems like a good time to mention my favourite add-on, Nostalgy (update for 3.0): <a href="http://alain.frisch.fr/soft_mozilla.html" rel="nofollow">http://alain.frisch.fr/soft_mozilla.html</a> . It makes keyboard control easy. From the description: 'Save time and get back the productivity you were used to with mutt/pine/eudora!'.

Just tried it here, I normally use Mail.app.<p>First impressions were "oh, this isn't so bad," but then I started using it. It feels very janky, the interface is a bit disfunctional (going to File &#62; New Folder gave absolutely no visual feedback as to where it put it, and if you have the filters window open and make a new folder you have to close and reopen the filters window for it to notice the new folder). The one thing I saw that I liked was the "Reply to Mailing list" button, but that just didn't work, at all. The To: recipient was the person who wrote the email, not the list. Also, I couldn't figure out how to open a new tab.<p>E for Effort I suppose, but it's seeming less and less relevant, and if major releases are this buggy I can see why.

Just curious - what's the appeal of non-web-based email? I'm forced to use Outlook at work, but I can't imagine having to install something to get my personal mail, and having to back up my personal mail. Do people do this mostly because they're concerned about their data privacy, or because it's easier to work when you don't have internet access, or what?

I've been using the CuteBird theme for a couple years which mimics the Apple mail client design. Now that I have upgraded to TB3 the theme is no longer compatible and the default theme, even with the improvements, just looks bad.

Ver 3 - Used for a few days, buggy, want to go back to version 2 for the time being and upgrade later. Can't find ver 2. Any suggestions.<p>The Woof Man

Using Firefox 3.5.5 no fixes yet 12/11 for TB &#38; Lightning. What a doozy! Remember satellite to mars, feet &#38; meters? Here is one right on earth.

Lightning calendar add-on is not compatible.

if its not better than gmail, i don't think anyone cares.

It's the orange space rocket, one that launches from under a pool, right?