Thunderbird 3 is out

If, like me, you can’t stand webmail interfaces for reading and replying to emails you’ll be glad to know Mozilla finally got around to releasing a new version of Thunderbird, their email client, you can download it here.

Some of the new features:

• Tabbed browsing of emails (why? not using it)
• Search (better search is always good)
• Message archiving (sounds useful)
• Smart Folders (merges things like multiple inboxes, could be useful, not using it)
• Easier account setup (good)
• One-click address book (about time!)
• Attachment reminder (never forget to add it!)
• Activity manager (why, I don’t care what it does, it could use magic as long as my emails appear)
• Better junk mail and phishing protection (I use Gmail, works great even if the UI is useless)

More details about the new features can be found here.