


Mozilla Connect is an easy-to-use community tool that can help shape future Thunderbird (and Firefox) releases. These Top 20 Thunderbird Feature Requests Need Your Vote

The post Meet The Team: Wolf-Martell Montwe, Android Developer appeared first on The Thunderbird Blog. I spoke with him about his first computer, what he hopes to accomplish for the Thunderbird mobile app, and how our community of contributors can help! He'll be helping to bring new features and an updated interface to K-9 Mail as we transform it into Thunderbird for Android. Having recently joined us as a full-time Android developer, Wolf brings his passion for building mobile applications to the Thunderbird team. Meet The Team: Wolf-Martell Montwe, Android Developer Keep yourself up to date with recent announcements and releases by following the official Thunderbird Blog! With Add-ons (Extensions & Themes) and many more features you can change the look and feel of Thunderbird in an instant. Multiple features, such as built-in Do Not Track and remote content blocking, work together to ensure your safety and privacy, so you can have peace of mind. Focus on what matters and forget about complexity. Sound interesting? Let's take a look at what Thunderbird can do.Thunderbird makes email better for you, bringing together speed, privacy and the latest technologies. Mailbox conversion tools for Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora,.Global mailbox for unifying multiple accounts.Support for popular news protocols: NNTP and RSS.Support for popular e-mail protocols: POP and IMAP.Cross-platform: Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.Mozilla Thunderbird is a "fully loaded" e-mail client and comes with a large array of features We tested Thunderbird on Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X 10.3.6, and Linux (CentOS 3.3, a RedHat Enterprise Linux workalike), and the interface is remarkably consistent across all three platforms. Screenshots from different operating systems Despite the separation, Firefox and Thunderbird still work together, but allow the developers of each group to have their own milestones and target dates. This separation has also allowed both groups to clean up and tighten the code in the individual code trees. By diverging Firefox and Thunderbird from the monolithic Mozilla code, both "trees" could be developed (and bug fixed) at a more rapid pace than before. So where did Thunderbird come from? Just like Firefox, Thunderbird is actually a fork in the original Mozilla codebase. Like Mozilla Firefox, which has been steadily gaining more press and acceptance as a better web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird is shaping up to be a better mail client. Most of you have used either Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, Mail.app, or one of many e-mail clients. System requirements: Windows98 or later, Linux kernel 2.2.14+, Mac OS 10.1.x or later What is Mozilla Thunderbird? (US$5.95 for a CD-ROM) Source code also available.
