What to expect out of Thunderbird 3: upcoming version of Mozilla Thunderbird

Aug 23rd, 2008 | By Premnath Sah | Category: Software

Mozilla Thunderbird is a good, robust email client having lots of features and also is extensible using lots of extensions available for download. Currently Thunderbird is in its 2nd Generation avatar and People at Mozilla and other open source developers are planning for Thunderbird 3.0 code-named "Shredder".

It has already reached 2nd Alpha stage and lot more refinements are being done. Lets look at the features which are going to be added in Thunderbird 3.0

Goals:

To ensure that Thunderbird keeps up with the evolution of the Mozilla platform
To increase adoption of Thunderbird
To improve usability
To facilitate the development, dissemination and use of extensions

Features to Expects:

It has been planned to build Thunderbird 3.0 on top of Gecko 1.9.1 engine.
Simple Account Setup (Auto configuration) Feature
Bundling Lightning 1.0, possibly with the GData provider making Thunderbird help you track your tasks, calendar
Faster content search
Improved address book usability
GMail IMAP support
Improved Extension Installation process
Tabs feature (’killer feature which made Mozilla and Opera click)
Roaming features
Support for winmail.dat
and many more will be added