Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 Released 135
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "MozillaZine has a report about new Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 release. Among other changes, this minor release includes fixes for the Linux command line URL parsing security flaw. Thunderbird 1.0.7 can be downloaded from the Thunderbird product page. 'Extremely Critical' Secunia advisory will be updated very soon."
Or you can use the 1.5 beta (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/relea
Re:Or you can use the 1.5 beta (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Here is some work for Firefox developers (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Combine with Firefox? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Did I just notice the Favicon TBird uses? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Combine with Firefox? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Here is some work for Firefox developers (Score:3, Informative)
Fonts aren't cheap which is why Linux has an extremely limited library of them. Bitsream was kind enough to donate their Vera family to Linux and I am extremely grateful for that. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on fonts for the Mac in years past and type face authors are greedy like the RIAA when it comes to fonts.
Actually a default installation of a Fedora flavor looks as good as an out of the box Mac. If your work requires custom fonts, then Linux won't be good enough
Re:Export Function Needed (Score:3, Informative)
Gmail doesn't allow IMAP yet (primary reason I don't use it much) but it looks like bgxmail [bgxmail.net] offers a free 1 GB mailbox you could use - just setup the IMAP server in both outlook and thunderbird, and copy the emails to IMAP, then into the local folders. Hell, you could just leave your archive email in the IMAP store, and use either program to access them.
Alternatively, you could setup a local IMAP server such as courier-imap or any of the many alternatives and migrate the email that way.
Re:Random thought that just popped in... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Did I miss the boat? (Score:2, Informative)
A lot of people. I do and have always done. I'm sorry, but I don't want anyone messing with my mail. I'm OK with my ISP doing so, because it's its main job. Not the case of the free email services. Plus: something very important: most, if not all, free email services actually *don't* give any guarantee about the quality of service. Most serious ISPs do. Other reasons, to name a few: 1) I wouldn't be surprised if Google or Yahoo reserved the right to actually use the content of emails for corporate needs (such as building databases of what interests people, etc); 2) Privacy is not guaranteed; 3) Security is not guaranteed; 4) The fact that all e-mails are archived on the server freaks me out. I always configure my e-mail clients to immediately download the content of emails and delete them on the server. This way, I know they don't stay too long somewhere I don't want them to be, plus they are all archived on my own computer. I can't lose any of them; 5) TB (and others) has nice filtering functions, search functions, multiple accounts, etc.
I don't care much about having a fixed e-mail address "for life". Mind you, pretty much nothing is "for life". If I move out, I'll change addresses and probably phone numbers. That doesn't bother me a lot. Besides, there are e-mail redirection services if you really want to have a fixed e-mail address with the ability of actually changing e-mail accounts/providers. I like that a lot better. That's freedom.
If just that (but I stated a lot of other serious reasons above), free e-mail services don't satisfy the "geek factor" at all. People who have been in the field for a long time tend to see these as "e-mail solutions for the masses". Inferior solutions for people who don't know any better...
And last, I'm not comfortable at all with these giant corporations delivering e-mails for everyone. That's freaky. A lot too centralized for my taste.