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| Developed by | Mozilla Messaging / Mozilla Foundation |
| Initial release | July 28, 2003 |
| Stable release | 2.0.0.14 (May 1, 2008) [+/−] |
| Preview release | 3.0a2 (June 12, 2008 [1]) [+/−] |
| Written in | C++ |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Available in | 37 languages |
| Genre | E-mail client, news client and RSS Reader |
| License | MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license |
| Website | www.mozilla.com/thunderbird www.mozillamessaging.com |
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History
Originally launched as Minotaur shortly after Phoenix (the original name for Mozilla Firefox), the project failed to gain momentum. See also [[Mozilla Thunderbird]] Originally launched as Minotaur shortly after Phoenix (the original name for Mozilla Firefox) the project The Mozilla Firefox project was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project With the success of the latter, however, demand increased for a mail client to go with it, and the work on Minotaur was revived under the new name, and migrated to the new toolkit developed by the Firefox team.
Significant work on Thunderbird restarted with the announcement that from version 1. 5 onwards, the main Mozilla suite would be designed around separate applications using this new toolkit. This contrasts with the previous all-in-one approach, and will hopefully lead to more efficient and maintainable code, as well as allowing users to mix and match the Mozilla applications with alternatives. The original Mozilla Suite continues to be developed as SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey is a free, Open source, and Cross-platform Internet suite.
On December 23, 2004, the Project Lightning was announced for tightly integrating calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc. Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Lightning project announced on December 22, 2004 and currently in development by the Mozilla Foundation, is an extension that adds calendar and scheduling The word Calendar consist of two words 1 Cal ( in Pashto means Year in Hindi and Persian is Sal- also means Year ) into Thunderbird, and is now available as an extension.
On October 11, 2006, Qualcomm and the Mozilla Foundation announced that "future versions of Eudora will be based upon the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email program. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Qualcomm ( is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego California Eudora is an E-mail client used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows Operating systems It also supports several palmtop computing " The project is code-named Penelope. An unofficial Eudora/Penelope forum is accessible via web or newsreader.
On July 26, 2007, the Mozilla Foundation announced that Thunderbird would be developed by an independent organization, because the Mozilla Corporation (a subsidiary of the foundation) is focusing on Mozilla Firefox development. Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Mozilla Foundation is a Non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the Open source Mozilla project The Mozilla Corporation (abbreviated MoCo) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet [1]
On September 17, 2007, the Mozilla Foundation announced the funding of a new internet communications initiative with Dr. Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Mozilla Foundation is a Non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the Open source Mozilla project David Ascher of ActiveState. The purpose of this initiative is "to develop Internet communications software based on the Thunderbird product, code and brand".
On February 19, 2008 Mozilla Messaging started operations as a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation responsible for the development of email and similar communications. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Mozilla Messaging (abbreviated MoMo) is a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Its initial focus is the upcoming version of Thunderbird 3.
Features
Thunderbird aims to be a simple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client. The vanilla version is not a personal information manager, although, with the Mozilla Lightning extension, a big part of a PIM functionality is added. The Lightning project announced on December 22, 2004 and currently in development by the Mozilla Foundation, is an extension that adds calendar and scheduling Additional features, if needed, are often available via other extensions. Add-ons are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Foundation 's projects (and compatible variants such as Portable Firefox)
Message management
Thunderbird can manage multiple e-mail, newsgroup and RSS accounts and supports multiple identities within accounts. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized Features like quick search, saved search folders ("virtual folders"), advanced message filtering, message grouping, and labels can help manage and find messages. On Linux-based systems, system mail (movemail) accounts are supported. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Movemail is a Computer program by the GNU Project that moves mail from a user's mailbox to another file
Junk filtering
Thunderbird incorporates a Bayesian spam filter, a whitelist based on the included address book, and can also understand classifications by server-based filters such as SpamAssassin[2]
Extensions
Extensions allow the addition of features through the installation of XPInstall modules (known as "XPI" or "zippy" installation). Bayesian spam filtering (pronounced BAYS-ee-ən IPA pronunciation:, after Rev E-mail spam, also known as "bulk e-mail" or "junk e-mail" is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by A whitelist is a list of accepted items or persons in a set This list is inclusionary confirming that the item being analyzed is acceptable SpamAssassin is a Computer program released under the Apache License 2 XPInstall (Cross-Platform Install is a technology used by the Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird One example is Lightning, the calendar extension mentioned above. The Lightning project announced on December 22, 2004 and currently in development by the Mozilla Foundation, is an extension that adds calendar and scheduling
Extensions and themes (below) available on the Mozilla Update site may be upgraded through the client.
Themes
Thunderbird supports a variety of themes for changing its overall look and feel. In Computing, skins may be associated with themes as custom graphical appearances ( GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and These packages of CSS and image files can be downloaded from Mozilla Add-ons. A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional Image using ones and zeros (binary
Standards support
Thunderbird supports POP and IMAP. In Computing, local E-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 ( POP3) an application-layer Internet standard protocol The Internet Message Access Protocol or IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for E-mail retrieval the other being POP3 It also supports LDAP address completion. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP (ˈɛl dæp is an Application protocol for querying and modifying Directory services running over The built-in RSS/Atom reader can also be used as a simple news aggregator. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for Web feeds while the Atom Publishing In computing a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application Thunderbird supports the S/MIME standard and extensions like Enigmail add support for the OpenPGP standard. S/MIME ( Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a standard for Public key Encryption and signing of E-mail encapsulated Enigmail provides Public key e-mail encryption It is an extension for versions of the Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey Internet suite Pretty Good Privacy (PGP is a Computer program that provides Cryptographic Privacy and Authentication.
Cross-platform support
Thunderbird runs on a wide variety of platforms. Releases available on the primary distribution site support the following operating systems:[3]
The source code is freely available and can be compiled and run on a variety of other architectures and operating systems. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently
Internationalization and localization
With contributors all over the world, the client is translated into at least 36 languages/locales, covering a wide number of languages.
Security
Thunderbird provides enterprise and government-grade security features such as SSL/TLS connections to IMAP and SMTP servers. Transport Layer Security ( TLS) and its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL) are Cryptographic protocols that provide secure The Internet Message Access Protocol or IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for E-mail retrieval the other being POP3 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP) is a De facto standard for electronic mail (e-mail transmissions across the Internet. It also offers native support for S/MIME secure email (digital signing and message encryption using certificates). S/MIME ( Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a standard for Public key Encryption and signing of E-mail encapsulated A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate the security properties of a handwritten Signature In Cryptography, a public key certificate (or identity certificate) is an electronic document which incorporates a Digital signature to bind together a Any of these security features can take advantage of smartcards with the installation of additional extensions. A smart card, chip card, or Integrated circuit card ( ICC) is any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated
Other security features can be added through extensions. For instance, Enigmail offers PGP signing, encryption, and decryption. Enigmail provides Public key e-mail encryption It is an extension for versions of the Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey Internet suite Pretty Good Privacy (PGP is a Computer program that provides Cryptographic Privacy and Authentication.
Optional security protections also include disabling loading of remote images within messages, enabling only specific media types (sanitizer), and disabling JavaScript. JavaScript is a Scripting language most often used for Client-side web development
See also
- Mozilla Calendar Project
- Mozilla's Lightning Calendar Extension
- Naming conflict between Debian and Mozilla, which resulted in Debian's Thunderbird variant being renamed into IceDove. The Mozilla Calendar Project is the name for the Mozilla project involved in the development of Sunbird calendar application and the Lightning integrated The Lightning project announced on December 22, 2004 and currently in development by the Mozilla Foundation, is an extension that adds calendar and scheduling Debian ( pronounced) is a computer Operating system composed entirely of Free and open source software.
- Correo, a version using Cocoa for Mac OS X
- List of news clients
- Comparison of e-mail clients
References
- ^ Claburn, Thomas. Correo (from the Spanish for "post"/"mail" is an open source E-mail client for Mac OS X. Cocoa is Apple Inc 's native Object-oriented application program environment for the Mac OS X Operating system Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of E-mail client programs "Mozilla Gives Thunderbird E-Mail The Boot", Internet section, InformationWeek, 27 July 2007. InformationWeek is a multimedia brand with a weekly print magazine online site face-to-face and virtual events and research Retrieved on 2007-07-31. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently
- ^ Mozillazine Forums
- ^ Thunderbird System Requirements. Mozilla. org.
External links
- Mozilla Thunderbird homepage
- Mozilla Messaging
- Mozilla Thunderbird project page — For developers.
- MozillaZine Forum for Thunderbird
- Portable Thunderbird — A portable/USB drive-friendly version (not distributed by Mozilla)
- Portable Thunderbird for Mac OS X (not distributed by Mozilla)
- For OS/2
- Thunderbird code and brand to be developed by Mozilla Messaging, a new for-profit entity funded by Mozilla
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