Thunderbird email client, updated to v3.11

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.11 (Windows, Open Source) is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Changes:

• Several fixes to improve stability and security.
• Several fixes to the user interface.

If you didn’t know yet, you can access your Google Calendar using Thunderbird.

Mozilla Thunderbird site [alt download]

Access Your Google Calendar with Thunderbird 3.1

I’ve been using Mozilla Sunbird for quite sometime, and just recently noticed that Mozilla is pulling the plug. Sunbird users are recommended to use Thunderbird 3.1 and the Lightning add-on. To access your Google Calendar, you’ll also need the Provider for Google Calendar add-on.

Thunderbird 3.1 (alt DL) is a great email client that gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

Lightning 1.0b2 (add-on for Thunderbird) lets you manage your daily schedule directly within Thunderbird. Allows managing calendars locally or subscribing to network calendars.

Provider for Google Calendar 0.7 (add-on for Thunderbird) allows bidirectional access to Google Calendar. You need an existing Google Calendar account.

So, first you install Thunderbird 3.1 for your email. Then install the Lightning add-on, for you to have the Calendar function. After that, you’ll need to install the Provider for Google Calendar add-on, for you to access your Google Calendar.

Instructions for Adding Google Calendar:

To access your calendar data, you need to retrieve your private XML URL from the Google Calendar UI. If you are not sure how, follow these steps:

1. Open your Google Calendar
2. Click on the Settings link located in the box at the right of the page.
3. Click on the calendar you want to use with Thunderbird Lightning or Sunbird.
4. Click on either of the two XML buttons shown at the bottom.

You may now use this url as the Location when clicking File > New > Calendar > On the Network > Google Calendar in Sunbird/Lightning.

If you have more than one calendar in your Google Calendar account, just repeat the above steps for the second account.

Tasks, unfortunately, cannot yet be synced. This would only be possible if Google provides an XML for it.

Thunderbird Email Client, updated to v3.1

Thunderbird 3.1 (alt DL) is a great email client that gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

Changes:

• Faster Search Results - Message indexing is faster and provides users with faster search results.
• Quick Filter Toolbar - New Quick Filter Toolbar lets you filter against search terms, tags, starred messages, address book contacts, new emails, and attachments.
• New Migration Assistant - The new Migration Assistant gives Thunderbird 2 users a way to choose the new features in Thunderbird 3.1 or to keep their current features and settings.
• Saved Files Manager - New Saved Files Manager displays all the files you downloaded from your email to your computer.
• Mail Account Setup Wizard - Hundreds of ISP settings have been added to make setting up Thunderbird easier.
• Improvements to Stability, Memory, and Password Handling

If you need an email client for your Windows desktop, this is the one I highly suggest.

Thunderbird Updated to 3.0.1 – Open Source Email Client

Thunderbird 3.0.1 (Windows, Open Source, 8.6MB) [alt DL] is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser. It gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

Changes:

• Several fixes to improve stability and security
• Several fixes to the user interface and attachment handling.

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MozBackup 1.4.10 – Create Backups for Firefox, Flock, Thunderbird, Sunbird

MozBackup 1.4.10 (Windows, Freeware, 1MB) is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird, Songbird and Netscape profiles.

Changes:

• Fixed one problem with automatic backups
• Added support for Firefox 3.6
• Added support for Thunderbird 3.0
• Added support for PostBox and Wyzo
• Some installer improvements

This is a very useful backup utility for most Mozilla-based apps.

IceRocket Tags: mozbackup, backup, firefox, thunderbird, mozilla, windows freeware

Thunderbird 3.0 – Open Source Email Client

Thunderbird 3.0 (Windows, Open Source, 8.58MB) [alt DL] is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• New Features:
• Search with Advanced Filtering Tools
• Global Search Field with Autocomplete
• User Experience Improvements:
• New Mail Account Setup Wizard
• Redesigned Mail Toolbar
• Tabbed Email Messages
• Smart Folders
• New Message Summary View
• Column Headings
• Message Archive
• Activity Manager
• New Add-ons Manager
• Improved Address Book
• Improved Gmail Integration
• For Windows Vista users, Thunderbird 3 is now integrated with Vista search results.
• Performance Improvements:
• MAP Folder Synchronization

This release is has lots of changes, so it’s a good idea to backup your profiles first.

IceRocket Tags: thunderbird, mozilla, email, client, windows open source

Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 – Open Source Email Client

Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows, Open Source, 6.46MB) [alt DL] is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Also available for Linux.

Fixes:

• Crash viewing multipart/alternative message with text/enhanced part
• JavaScript chrome privilege escalation
• Arbitrary code execution using event listeners attached to an element whose owner document is null
• SSL tampering via non-200 responses to proxy CONNECT requests
  * Crashes with evidence of memory corruption
• Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: scheme
• Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

IceRocket Tags: mozilla, thunderbird, email, client, windows open source

MozBackup 1.4.9 – Create Backups for Thunderbird, Firefox, Flock, Sunbird, Spicebird, and Songbird

MozBackup 1.4.9 (Windows, Freeware, 732KB) is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird, Songbird and Netscape profiles.

Changes (from 1.4.8):

• Fix: List Index out of bounds
• Fix: Add finish page to installer
• Fix: Installer should install MozBackup for all users
• Fix: MozBackup should be uninstallable from Add/Remove applications dialog
• Some improvements with support of portable applications
• Some improvements with backup of mailboxes
• Add: Enable MozBackup to backup Songbird
• Fix: Disabled extensions are imported but as enabled
• new application icon
• Add option for backup with no compression
• Add signons.sqlite to backups
• Fix: Unclosable "Drive undefined" window
• Fix: temp0082.zip file during mozbackup (problem with large backups)
• Fix: hangs when selecting old no more existant Mozilla 1.8
• Fix: List Index Out of Bounds
• Fix: Mozilla Profiles backup always offer 2 identical lines of the same option - "profiles only"
• Fix: Showing SeaMonkey when does no exists

I always run MozBackup whenever I do a maintenance backup routine on my machines. Better be safe than sorry, right?

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Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.19 Rev 2

Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.19 Rev 2 (Windows, Open Source, 6.7MB) is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client converted as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

Changes:

• included Thunderbird has been updated to 2.0.0.19
• launcher has been updated to properly handle custom file associations in the mimetypes.rdf.
• installer will remove large/corrupt mimetypes.rdf files.

IceRocket: mozilla thunderbird portable, windows open source

Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 – Cross Platform Email Client with RSS Reader

Thunderbird  2.0.0.19 (Windows, Open Source, 6.5MB) [alt DL] is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Also available for Linux.

Security Fixes:

• XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation
• Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser
• Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters
• Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message
• XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure
• Information stealing via loadBindingDocument
• Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

Thunderbird is my favorite email client, for Windows and/or Linux. It has a nice RSS reader built-in, but I still prefer GreatNews (Windows only) for my feed reading.

IceRocket: mozilla thunderbird, windows open source

Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.8 Rev 2

Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.8 Rev 2 (Windows, Open Source, 6.7MB) is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. You can also add in GPG and Enigmail to encrypt and sign your email.

Changes:

• 2.0.0.18 core app updates
• launcher updated to improve cleanup of empty profile/profiles directories and unreadmail keys that were previously deleted
• installer now preserves any installed GPG binaries
• this revision fixes an issue where non-English packages would display multilingual extensions in English.
• The English build has just had a version update to keep it consistent with the other builds. Users of the English package do not need to upgrade from 2.0.0.18.

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Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 – Free Full-Featured Email Client

Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows, Open Source, 6.5MB) [alt DL] is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Various security fixes

IceRocket: mozilla thunderbird, email client, open source, windows

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 – Open Source Email Client

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows, Open Source, 6.6MB) [alt DL] is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Fixed: Heap overflow when canceling newsgroup message
• Fixed:  traversal vulnerabilities
• Fixed: BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
• Fixed: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption
• Fixed: Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
• Fixed: nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation
• Fixed: UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow

Technorati: mozilla, thunderbird, mail, open source, windows

Opera 9.52 - Full Featured Internet Browser

Opera 9.52 (Windows, Freeware, 6.7MB) [alt DL] is a full-featured Internet browser, that includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Added several improvements to the icons and skin
• Added a bookmark path to autocompleted bookmarks in the address bar to better distinguish them from visited pages
• Added a Help button to Engine Init() Failed error message on start-up to inform users about a problem
• Returned the Windows shell menu to the Transfer context menu
• Fixed the opening of PDF files in Acrobat Reader plug-in when the folder contains special characters
• Added a Close Tab entry to the File menu
• And much more improvements and bug fixes.

Technorati: opera, internet, web, browser, email, irc, rss, feed, reader, windows, freeware

Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.16

Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.16 (Windows, Open Source, 6.9MB) [alternate DL] is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client released as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

Change: Fixed security issues in Thunderbird engine.

Technorati: mozilla, thunderbird, portable, email, client, windows, open source

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 - Open Source Email Client

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows, Open Source, 6.6MB) [alternate download] is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Fixed security issues:
  • Remote code execution by overflowing CSS reference counter
  • Crash and remote code execution in block reflow
  • Peer-trusted certs can use alt names to spoof
  • Faulty .properties file results in uninitialized memory being used
  • Buffer length checks in MIME processing
  • Arbitrary code execution in mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript()
  • Chrome script loading from fastload file
  • Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.15)

Technorati: mozilla, thunderbird, email, windows, open source, client

Opera 9.50 - Full Featured Internet Browser

Opera 9.50 (Windows, Freeware, 6.7MB) [download via FileHippo] is a full-featured Internet browser, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• a recommended security and stability upgrade
• introduces new storage and indexing formats for Opera Mail (including feeds).
• Introduced Opera Link.
• Added Quick Find, an improved full text history search tool.
• redesigned Address bar drop-down is displayed when entering text in the Address bar
• Re-enabled the Status bar by default and copied some UI elements from the View bar to Status bar; View bar is now disabled by default.
• Added alternative tab-closing behaviors. The preferences now include the following options when closing a tab
• "Open with" functionality added to web page context menu and Transfer panel/page.
• Content blocking improvements
• Added ability to save only the active window as a session (File > Sessions > Save This Session > Only save active window).
• Disabled dragging links/favicons to arbitrary toolbars (exceptions: Personal bar and opera: buttons); hold Shift or open the Tools > Appearances dialog to enable dragging.
• Wand feature will no longer block form submits, making it possible to see if login was successful before storing your login credentials.
• Introduced a new security notification scheme in the address field
• New spatial navigation highlighting introduced, similar to the one used in Opera Mini 4 and the Wii browser.
• Added spatial navigation for client side image maps, Xlink references in SVG documents and elements with click event handlers that simulate links/buttons.
• And more new customizations.

Technorati: opera, web, internet, browser, windows, freeware

Popcorn 1.87 - Portable POP3/SMTP Email Client

Popcorn 1.87 (Windows, Freeware, 252KB) [download via FileForum] is an ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client. Being a true client/server application, it does not work in the same way as a typical mail program. This means that you're reading mail from the POP3 server directly, without downloading it to a local mailbox on your PC (you can save mail messages locally if you want to).

Changes:

• Password prompting has now been implemented for the "Use incoming (POP) server username and password" SMTP send authentication method
• Fixed a bug that caused some downloaded mail items to not show the correct status when they were only partially downloaded
• Fixed a bug that caused the All Profiles view not to appear when the "Get headers on startup" option was enabled
• Fixed some misc. usability issues with the All Profiles view caused by the change from a free floating dialog window to a docked view
• Better default values for Popcorn settings and account profiles when starting from scratch (no popcorn.ini file present)
• Removed the All Profiles "You have new mail..." notification pop-up dialog
• Added a standard message box question mark icon to the application already running dialog making it look like a Windows MessageBox()
• Optimized a couple of message and attachment download routines
• Error dialog suppression has been fine-tuned a bit more

Technorati: popcorn, pop3, smtp, email, client, windows, portable, freeware

MozBackup 1.4.8 - Backup Utility for Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, and Netscape

MozBackup 1.4.8 (Windows, Freeware, 708KB zip version) is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird and Netscape profiles.

Changes:

• New graphic
• Fix: ZIP version should contain directory

Now, MozBackup has support for Flock, Spicebird, and Sunbird.

Technorati: mozbackup, mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, sunbird, flock, seamonkey, netscape, windows, freeware

Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.14

Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition 2.0.0.14 (Windows, Open Source, 6.7MB) is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

Changes:

• The included Thunderbird has been updated to 2.0.0.14.
• The launcher has been updated to fix some minor bugs with live mode.

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