Thunderbird 3 out this month
The Mozilla Foundation has announced that the latest version of its Thunderbird email system will be out this month.
The release candidate version of Thunderbird 3 will be out next week and the company expects the final version to be released by mid-November, although it hasn't set a firm launch date in line with Mozilla's long-standing policy of releasing software when it's ready and not before.
Mozilla is claiming that 2,000 individual improvements have been made to the Thunderbird. Chief among these are a new search tool that uses and SQL back end but a Mozilla-developed algorithm. Users can search multiple email accounts and then filter research by the date the email was sent or received, by whom it received for or directed too and by keywords.
