Thuderbirds Are Go……

Mozilla, favoured by millions for its alternative browser and email software, has launched Thunderbird 2.

“Thunderbird 2 has powerful new features and proven security, delivering an improved e-mail experience to users worldwide,” Scott MacGregor, lead engineer for Thunderbird at the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, said in a written statement.
The updated e-mail program’s new capabilities include a range of features borrowed from blogging, information retrieval and web browsers.

Foremost among the changes is the ability to “tag” messages with unique descriptors or keywords. For example, a user could create and assign the tag “Mother’s Day” to a series of e-mails related to planning a surprise party, as well as standard tags such as “important,” “personal,” and so on. Messages can be assigned an unlimited number of tags and there is no restriction on the number of tags that can be created by a user.

Tagging — a common feature of many blogs and so-called Web 2.0 sites and services — is used to help put information into context and to organize it to make it easier to search for information.

The search function in Thunderbird 2 has also been upgraded, displaying results as the user types in a query, which speeds up searches, Mozilla said.

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