F.A.B.!
Posted on 12/08/2009 8:15:52 PM PST by zeugma
Now with tabs, better search, and email archiving.
If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you’re going to love tabbed email. Thunderbird 3’s tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them.
Search results open in a new tab too. New tools like our timeline and filtering tools will help you pinpoint the email you’re looking for, whether it’s the one from yesterday, last month, or several years ago.
Your Mail, Your Way
Customize Thunderbird however you want, whether it’s to make you more productive or to make Thunderbird more fun. You can choose from hundreds of add-ons like the Lightning Calendar to manage your schedule or Personas to change Thunderbird’s look.
You can now find and install new add-ons directly from the Add-ons Manager.
If you're using Lightning, you need to install a nightly build to get it to work with TB3.
Ping!
I may have to try it. With win 7 and no email I tried the beta and had trouble downloading and sending my email so I switch to Opera and used the same setting and no problems.
F.A.B.!
Thanks for the heads up! Haven’t received the prompt yet to upgrade. Thunderbird rocks.
I’ll give v3 a shot. What I really want is a Eudora clone. TB2 wasn’t it. It pretended to be.
Does it still lose your mail database with every update?
I used the beta, and am happy to report that my addons work just fine, with the exception of Lightening. To that end, I installed an addon that creates a button in TBird that calls up Sunbird, and I’ve gotten used to that.
I absolutely like the ability the unify the inbox.
Favorite addons:
Enigmail (front end for Gnupgp)
Quick Folders
Mark All read.
The new search takes some getting used to, and some learning.
As for the Tabs, since I’ve been using the betas, I’m used to them, and I really don’t want to be without them, they’re that useful.
Downloaded it last night. Installed fine, everything worked. Will have to play with it more as time goes on.
If you need an email client this one is very good and free.
Not that I've noticed, but as with every software upgrade, it's highly advisable to backup your mail before you upgrade.
Yup. Eudora rocked back when I used it. One of the best things about the new TB is the way the search feature works. One of the best I’ve seen so far.
I looked on my T-bird and can't find the backup function.
BTW, about two weeks ago I accidentally uninstalled T-Bird. Two days ago I reinstalled it and everything was still there. All the mail, contacts, etc.
I was happily surprised yet a bit confused. Why didn't the uninstall remove all that stuff?
I did a manual check for updates in T-Bird 2.x. It didn't find anything about T-Bird 3. My guess is that you won't get a notification about T-Bird 3 unless you go looking for it.
I installed it and so far I like it.
Thanks for the tip!
Have you heard....what’s the word?....It’s Thunderbird.
Depends upon your operating system I would imagine.
Since I use Linux, this would work...
tar czvf thunderbird.20091209.tgz $HOME/.thunderbird
(Of course, I have a script to do this weekly. It also backs up my Firefox configuration)
If you use a less sophisticated operating system, you'll probably have to use other tools.
I was happily surprised yet a bit confused. Why didn't the uninstall remove all that stuff?
The program and the data are separate things.
You can remove the program without removing the data (i.e., messages and email account configs), and vice versa. I'd recommend that you determine what directory your email data and configs are in (hopefully you won't have to deal with a 'registry' -shudder), and back them up either by copying them to a different directory or drive, or archive them in a compressed file like I did above.
Not really, FireFox has a tool for importing/exporting bookmarks and other things. I just thought that T-Bird would as well.
It did it automatically. All the stuff is there from my 2.X version of T-Bird - all the mail, contacts, etc.
If you use a less sophisticated operating system, you'll probably have to use other tools.
Not a very veiled shot at MS, is it? ;^)
i thought I was being subtle. :-)
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