Thunderbird 2 RC1; The holy grail of email?

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2′s feature list won’t leave you with a “wow” moment, but might give you a reason to get off webmail. The big improvements are:

• Message Tags (ala Gmail labels, create all you like, even multiple tags per message)
• Visual Themes (customization is fun!)
• Session History Navigation
• Advanced Folder Views
• Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services (read: Gmail users, we want you!)
  
• Improved New Mail Notification Alerts

Clearly, Mozilla is eyeing Gmail users as setting up your account is as automated as possible, short of guessing your password. Not a bad target to aim at. My friends over at Lifehacker held a survey on what where its readers got their mail: 43% say webmail; 22% desktop and 33% that use both. By combining things we love about Gmail, Thunderbird 2 could be the answer we all search for.

As a Mozilla Firefox lover, I am tempted to get off Gmail (it is a quirky bugger that I am still getting used to) and try this release. You can do the same here but remember that it is only a release candidate.

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