Mozilla Thunderbird 3 beta 3

Major Features:

1. Get Organized
   • Message Tagging
   • • Allows you to “tag” messages with descriptors such as “To Do” or “Done” or even create your own tags that are specific to your needs.
   • Improved Search
   • • Features a new find bar that speeds up searches within displayed messages. Thunderbird also offers quick search, which starts showing search results as soon as you start typing in search terms.
   • Saved Searches
   • • Saves you time by allowing you to store this search as a folder. Rerunning the search is just a matter of clicking on the saved search folder in the folder pane.
   • Advanced Folder Views
   • • Offers a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders, whether by favorites, recently viewed or folders containing unread messages.
   • Stay Informed
   • • Has been updated to provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender, subject and message text for newly arrived messages.
   • Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services
   • • Makes it even easier to integrate and use various Web mail accounts from one inbox.
2. Customize Your Email Experience
   • Your Mail, Your Way
   • • Thunderbird users can increase Thunderbird’s functionality and appearance using hundreds of add-ons.
   • Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes
   • • The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Thunderbird
   • Message Templates
   • • Allows you to easily set up message templates to save you time – especially if you have to send the same mail message repeatedly.
3. Secure and Protect Your Mail
   • Cutting Out the Junk
   • • Thunderbird's popular junk mail tools have been updated to stay ahead of spam. Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters.
   • Robust Privacy
   • • Offers improved support for user privacy and remote image protection.
   • Phishing Protection
   • • Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt.
   • Automated Update
   • • Thunderbird’s update system checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available.
   • Open Source
   • • At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world.

Enhancements:

• Features the Gecko 1.9.1.1 engine, and code overhauls for more than 500 issues including thread pane and tab refactoring, and extension fixes.
• Other improvements include opening mail in a new tab, a summary view for selecting multiple messages at once, smart folders, improved Gmail integration, and customizable column headings.

Requirements:

• Operating Systems
• • Mac OS X 10.2.x and later
• Minimum Hardware
• • Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
  • 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
  • 200 MB hard drive space.