Thunderbird 2 was released couple of weeks ago and I decided to upgrade my Thunderbird 1.5 on Vista Ultimate today.
Very seamless experience, I downloaded, installed and now running without any glitch! All address book and filters automatically imported.
Read the entire list of features but my favorite ones are:
- Message History Navigation – Like browser, it now maintains a history of messages (both forward and backward) viewed.
- Improved Search – Find as you type pane makes search more effective.
- Automated Update – Automatically checks to see if an update is available, download and install.
- Stay Informed – Provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender, subject and message text for newly arrived messages.
If you are using Firefox then you are already familiar with most of the above features but it’s nice to see a consistent set of features in products coming out of Mozilla Foundation. And probably these features are available as add-ons for Thunderbird 1.5 but I never looked around. Feel free to drop a comment on this blog if you know of an interesting add-on.
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you are missing my favorite: substantially improved tag support. Not yet up to some older CLI clients of old, but good enough that I’ve redone my whole filtering system around it. – eduard/o
Comment by eduardo pelegri-llopart — May 2, 2007 @ 3:34 pm
Eduardo, I need to learn from you how to use them effectively. I think I’m asking for a blog entry from you on that
Another good one that I found in the past few hours “Click here to always load remote images from …”. I saw this functionality for the first time in Gmail and found it useful.
Comment by Arun Gupta — May 2, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
I don’t know how you missed that Thunderbird doesn’t even import the contacts from Windows Mail. To my mind, that’s not Vista-ready.
Comment by Michael Fumento — July 1, 2007 @ 7:41 pm
re: Vista-ready – I don’t use Windows Mail but other than able to resolve LDAP directory names, it seems to be reasonable.
Comment by Arun — July 2, 2007 @ 6:54 am
can i import my contacts from Windows Mail into Thunderbird 2?
Comment by don — August 7, 2007 @ 11:59 am
don, see if this link is helpful:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=573155&
Comment by Arun Gupta — August 7, 2007 @ 2:07 pm
hi..i bought a new laptop OS vista..how do i transfer all contacts, old email, account set up from my old xp laptop..any tip? thanks much!
Comment by maynard — December 3, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
yup its thunderbird.. old to new pc
Comment by maynard — December 3, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
I did finally get my contacts transferred over, or rather my more software-savvy wife did, but it wasn’t easy. But maybe I can save you some heartbreak and tell you what I am going to do soon — install Windows XP over Vista. Recent tests show that in addition to the incredible number of bugs in Vista, it goes at half the speed of XP. That’s my experience, as well. Worse, it "decays" at an incredible pace such that originally it almost never required rebooting. Now I have to hard boot on average once a day. Enough is enough.
Comment by Michael Fumento — December 3, 2007 @ 7:51 pm
I have Windoes Vista and IMAP Thuderbird email. Google desktop does not index my email after upgrading to Vista from XP. Any ideas?
Comment by Vagelis — January 14, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
I can’t import any of my contacts or email. I have Vista’s "Window’s Mail." I don’t have Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora.
Can you help? I am not very computer literate, but if I have good instructions, I can do whatever needs to be done.
Thanks.
Comment by vistaweary — April 8, 2008 @ 9:44 am
I can’t import any of my contacts or email either. I have Vista’s "Window’s Mail." I don’t have Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora.
It doesn’t see anything to import, but Widows mail show everything.
Can you help? I am not very computer literate, but if I have good instructions, I can do whatever needs to be done.
Thanks.
Comment by Vincent — April 17, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Upgrading from Thunderbird 1.5 to 2.0 is not automatic.
I tried it and it doesn’t work. Further, I looked into it and the migration from 1.5 feature is not yet availableas of 2.0.0.14.
If you can point to any page on mozilla.com or their forums stating that upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0 will automatically migrate data, please share.
Comment by FX — April 27, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
Hi – I normally use Outlook, but with my new Vista laptop I have to re-enter my network password every time the programme loads (registry issue). Can I not import all my contacts from Outlook to Thunderbird??
Thanks in advance for any help
Keith
Comment by KeithT — April 28, 2008 @ 8:51 am
I normally use Outlook, but with my new Vista laptop I have to re-enter my network password every time the programme loads (registry issue). Can I not import all my contacts from Outlook to Thunderbird??
Comment by laptop batteries — November 26, 2008 @ 8:58 pm