Mozilla’s new email client, Thunderbird 1.0 has been released:
steven%silverorange.com 2004-11-09 00:50
People of Earth, I give you Thunderbird 1.0 (download links to be updated by mscott shortly)
Congratulations to Scott and all those who have worked on making Thunderbird a fine email client. Also, thanks for not making me get up at 5AM to help with the release. Your time-zone sensitivity did not go unnoticed.
This must be a new definition of the word “client”. Is Mozilla holding all its clients hostage? Or are they releasing some? What does the word “client” mean in this context? When and how did it come to have this usage?
“In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. The term was first applied to devices that were not capable of running their own stand-alone programs, but could interact with remote computers via a network.”
Taken from the wonderful Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29)
POP3, IMAP, Internet, client, server, gouraud shading baby!
Anyone there notice that the About panel shows Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)?
Well, that was strange. Downloaded from the 1.0 link on the main Thunderbird page, got 0.9 without realizing it. Just went back now (20 minutes later) and downloaded from the same link but got 1.0. Strange.
Oh well. Ignore my idiotic comment and congrats!
I had to roll-back to 0.9 because I couldn’t get EnigMail working with 1.0 (Linux, FC3).
Do I love TB and FF? Oh, yeah. Will I ever learn to wait awhile before upgrading Mozilla products? Doubtful.
Hopefully there’ll soon be a .point release for T-Bird that adds Software Update. Sure takes the hassle out of Firefox upgrades. Don’t forget to backup those profile folders, kids.
LQ
Seems like TB is down? Anyone here who can download it?