Firefox's open source email partner makes it to version 0.9

By Simon Aughton

Posted on 4 Nov 2004 at 10:40

Thunderbird, the open source email client from the makers of Firefox, is one step closer to completion with the release of version 0.9.

This release incorporates two new ways of organising messages. Saved Search Folders lets you display messages based on previously set search criteria; for example, instead of filtering messages into a new folder, you could create a Saved Search Folder that lists all the messages received from a certain person over the past 30 days, even if those messages are stored in different folders and subfolders. Message Grouping groups messages in a folder by attributes such as date, sender, priority or a custom label. Other changes are listed in the release notes.

Thunderbird 0.9 is a free download from www.mozilla.org/thunderbird.

Meanwhile, with version 1.0 of the Firefox Web browser due to be released in five days' time, release candidate 2 (RC2) is now available from the Firefox FTP server. At this stage in the development cycle there are no new features, just final bug fixes.