become available).
Changes since 0.4:
* New Features
We now support the notion of multiple identities per mail
account. This makes it easy to have several email addresses which end
up going into the same account. Read More about how to hook this up.
Thunderbird 0.5 includes Secure Password Authentication using a
new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for POP3 and SMTP.
Option to turn on the Mozilla 1.x style folder columns in
Thunderbird (Tools / Options / Advanced / General Settings).
A new Palm Sync Address book conduit is now available for 0.5.
You can now do a one way sync, PC -> Palm or Palm -> PC, by changing
the hot sync conduit setup. We now prevent duplicate cards in
Thunderbird address books when syncing with Palm categories. Numerous
improvements with the initial sync.
A new, improved version of the offline extension is now
available for 0.5. Please read the installation notes in this document
about how to first uninstall old extensions.
Improved Spell Checker including a new US dictionary.
Ability to paste names or addresses from a spreadsheet directly
into the addressing widget of a new compose window.
Improved profile migration from Netscape 4.x.
* Recently Fixed Bugs
If a new message arrives while you are reading a message, we no
longer scroll the message body back to the top.
When saving an IMAP attachment, we no longer re-download the
attachment from the server.
Saving an attachment now brings up a standalone progress window.
Copying a message to a Sent Folder now shows progress in the
progress window.
When saving or opening an attachment, the progress dialog now
reports accurate progress information.
We now mark IMAP messages read in a folder if they are deleted
or moved to another folder. This fixes incorrect unread counts when
checking folders other than the Inbox for new messages.
LDAP searches now honor the directory search filter property.
Ability to paste a single cell of data from Microsoft Excel into
the compose window body.
Problems with IMAP folders three levels deep not showing up when
you are not using the IMAP subscription model.
Tools / Options / Attachments / Attachment Folder setting is now
remembered.
Linux builds no longer crash when viewing HTML messages
requiring a JAVA plugin.
Improved handling of apple double encoded attachments from OSX
clients.
No more new mail alert notifications when all incoming messages
are Junk.
"Remove from server after x days" has been implemented for POP3
mail accounts.
* Performance Improvements
Faster folder loading.
* Improved Stability and Polish
This release is based on the Mozilla App-Suite 1.6 final branch
and includes all of the stability work that went into Mozilla 1.6.
mozilla-bin/Makefile.common and mozilla-bin-nightly/Makefile.common.
the result is much less duplication and more consistent installations.
tested on NetBSD-current only (for now).
Major changes since 0.3:
* Improved Look
The default theme for Mozilla Thunderbird has taken a huge leap
forward. The theme is about 90% complete with only a few "classic"
looking icons remaining.
The message list pane now shows status for reply, forward and unread
as icons directly on the message envelope instead of using text.
The message list pane now has a separate sortable column for
attachment status on a message.
The Windows animated alert has a new look and feel. It now shows the
Account name instead of your server user name.
* Improved Interoperability With the OS
Linux: Thunderbird properly dispatches browser URLs to the default
browser. Read more about how to hook this up.
Mac OS X: Added a Windows menu which makes it easier to manage open
Thunderbird windows. The menu bar behaves correctly after closing all
open windows. Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird can be run at the same
time with out the two builds interfering with URL dispatching between
applications.
Windows: Thunderbird can be set as the default mail client and/or as
the default news client.
* New Features
Windows users can copy and paste images (including screen shots) from
the Windows clipboard into HTML mail compose.
Only mark a message as read when it has been open in the preview pane
for a configurable number of seconds.
More options for customizing toolbars the way you want them.
Enchancements include: a mark button in the main mail window and
copy/cut/paste icons in mail compose.
Profile Migration from Netscape 4.x has seen a lot of improvements.
A Palm Sync Address book conduit extension is now available for
Thunderbird 0.4.
POP Accounts now support aging on the server.
* Recently Fixed Bugs
No more new mail alert notifications when the incoming messages are
Junk.
The progress bar now appears in the mail 3-pane window when reporting
progress for operations like downloading new mail or a message body.
Auto Proxy URLs now work.
POP Accounts: "Click here to download the rest of the message" now
works.
POP Accounts: A new filter action to delete a message from POP3 server
if messages are left on the server by default.
Junk Folder Purging works on all accounts and not just the first one.
If you configure a mail server to use secure authentication but the
server does not support it, Thunderbird no longer silently falls back
to insecure authentication. Thunderbird brings up an error dialog and
refuse to connect to the server.
News error dialogs no longer hang the application.
HTML Anchors in messages work.
When threads are sorted by date, Thunderbird sorts by the newest
message in the thread.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The
goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using
the XUL user interface language.
