Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 1
June 3rd, 2005
Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 1 is now available. New in this release:
- Phishing Detector –> Examines the contents of an e-mail message and warns you with a status bar along the top of the message if Thunderbird thinks this message is a phishing attack.
- Spell As You Type for Mail Compose. (Enabled by Default)
- Support for deleting and stripping attachments from e-mail.
- Improved RSS Support –> Including podcasting, a new feed subscription UI, OPML import (export will be added in Alpha 2)
- Re-designed Options Dialog
- Improved UI under Account Settings for managing multiple SMTP accounts. If you have an account with multiple identities, you can even configure an SMTP server for each identity.
- An Improved Spell Check Engine
- Auto Save As Draft for mail composition.
- Advanced hackers now have direct access to about:config for pref hacking (Tools / Options / Advanced / Config Editor)
- Mailing lists in the address book now use LDAP during autocomplete if you are using LDAP.
- Offline Improvements
- Ability to have global inbox filters
- Ability to copy local folders to imap servers
- TLS Support for POP3
- Support for Network timeouts for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP
- Search and Filter Improvements (including the ability to create views or search/filter on flagged messages).
- Many bug fixes and other improvements.
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