Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Email Client Released

January 14th, 2006 | Filed under Firefox.

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 has been released. It is the next version of the award-winning popular email client.

Here’s what’s new in Thunderbird 1.5:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
* Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient.
* Spell check as you type.
* Saved Search Folders can now search across multiple accounts.
* Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
* Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
* Deleting attachments from messages.
* Integration with server side spam filtering.
* Reply and forward actions for message filters.
* Kerberos Authentication.
* Auto save as draft for mail composition.
* Message aging.
* Filters for Global Inbox.
* Improvements to product usability including redesigned options interface, and SMTP server management.
* Many security enhancements.

Thunderbird is a full-featured email application that supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. As Thunderbird gets popular by the day along with Firefox, the release of Thunderbird brings along many new features. I am seriously considering switching from Outlook Express to Thunderbird…