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Yes I'm slacking since this was released on the 12 March 2004
2004-03-12 Weekly Build Now Available (Win32)
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.
In addition to the feature set found in Mozilla Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird has several new features and improvements to make your mail and new experience better. Highlights include:
- The ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window.
- UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experience with specific features and enhancements that you need. Support for extensions.
- Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.
- A new look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
- An addressing sidebar for mail compose which makes it easy and convenient to add address book contacts to emails.
- Online help includes a FAQ, tips and tricks and other useful information.
- Simplified preferences UI and menus.
- Footprint and performance improvements.
What's New
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I'm very excited about all of the cool stuff in this build...
1. Updated Junk Mail Algorithm Improvements. Fixes several math errors in the new algorithm that were in previous test builds. . It is now producing the same message scores as spam bayes when both are fed the same input tokens so we believe the algorithm is now calculating scores correctly. Further tuning/gains will come from improving the tokenizer. **Please keep in mind, if you start using this build and training with it, then you go back to a nightly or an old build that does not have this patch in it, you will get mixed results with the performance of the filter** (This code is present in Win32 hand made bits from me only)
2. To get the best benefit from the new junk filter, I highly recommend you retrain, clearing out your training file. To that end, I have added UI in the junk controls / adaptive filter dialog to make it easy to reset your training data. You can use this instead of deleting training.dat by hand. Verbage in this dialog for this option will hopefully be improved.
3. Fixed some serious accounting issues when a user deletes training.dat and retrains against messages that have already been classified which would lead to extremely poor performance for the junk controls.
4. Many improvements and bug fixes for Thunderbird's support of the IDLE command for IMAP. (Thanks David!)
5. We now have a new set of emoticons (smileys) thanks to the pinstripe authors for donating these t[o us.
6. If we fail to copy your sent message to your sent folder, we now bring up a dialog asking you if you
would like us to try again. This happens a lot if the connection to the sent folder has timed out.
7. F8 can now be used to toggle the message pane open and closed
8. Regression fix: we no longer have the grey line underneath the menu bar
9. Regression fix: the options and send progress dialogs are now coming up with the proper width and not getting truncated like they were in the 3/5 build
10. Regression fix: changing the priority on an outgoing message no longer effects the priority of the next message you try to send.
11. Honor the general.useragent.override pref if someone sets it.
12. Better support for user custom sounds for new mail notifications in the Options / General Settings dialog.
13. Automated OSX nightlies are now getting pushed to the latest-trunk dir
14. Automated Linux nightlies should be coming online soon.
Download and the Source
2004-03-12 Weekly Build Now Available (Win32)
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.
In addition to the feature set found in Mozilla Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird has several new features and improvements to make your mail and new experience better. Highlights include:
- The ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window.
- UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experience with specific features and enhancements that you need. Support for extensions.
- Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.
- A new look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
- An addressing sidebar for mail compose which makes it easy and convenient to add address book contacts to emails.
- Online help includes a FAQ, tips and tricks and other useful information.
- Simplified preferences UI and menus.
- Footprint and performance improvements.
What's New
--------------
I'm very excited about all of the cool stuff in this build...
1. Updated Junk Mail Algorithm Improvements. Fixes several math errors in the new algorithm that were in previous test builds. . It is now producing the same message scores as spam bayes when both are fed the same input tokens so we believe the algorithm is now calculating scores correctly. Further tuning/gains will come from improving the tokenizer. **Please keep in mind, if you start using this build and training with it, then you go back to a nightly or an old build that does not have this patch in it, you will get mixed results with the performance of the filter** (This code is present in Win32 hand made bits from me only)
2. To get the best benefit from the new junk filter, I highly recommend you retrain, clearing out your training file. To that end, I have added UI in the junk controls / adaptive filter dialog to make it easy to reset your training data. You can use this instead of deleting training.dat by hand. Verbage in this dialog for this option will hopefully be improved.
3. Fixed some serious accounting issues when a user deletes training.dat and retrains against messages that have already been classified which would lead to extremely poor performance for the junk controls.
4. Many improvements and bug fixes for Thunderbird's support of the IDLE command for IMAP. (Thanks David!)
5. We now have a new set of emoticons (smileys) thanks to the pinstripe authors for donating these t[o us.
6. If we fail to copy your sent message to your sent folder, we now bring up a dialog asking you if you
would like us to try again. This happens a lot if the connection to the sent folder has timed out.
7. F8 can now be used to toggle the message pane open and closed
8. Regression fix: we no longer have the grey line underneath the menu bar
9. Regression fix: the options and send progress dialogs are now coming up with the proper width and not getting truncated like they were in the 3/5 build
10. Regression fix: changing the priority on an outgoing message no longer effects the priority of the next message you try to send.
11. Honor the general.useragent.override pref if someone sets it.
12. Better support for user custom sounds for new mail notifications in the Options / General Settings dialog.
13. Automated OSX nightlies are now getting pushed to the latest-trunk dir
14. Automated Linux nightlies should be coming online soon.
Download and the Source
