Thunderbird 2 is out: Free, kick-ass email

Thunderbird 2.0 is out. Thunderbird is the free, open email client that does for email what Firefox does for browsing: liberates you from proprietary software, proprietary formats and expensive upgrades and puts desktop mail back into the control of the community of users. I don't use webmail for two reasons: I really need offline access to my mail, and I prefer to keep my mail where I can control it. If a subpoena is issued to read my email, I want to know about it -- something you don't necessarily get if the NSA shows up at Google or Hotmail.

Thunderbird just works, and the 2.0 release has a bunch of promising new features, including tabbed mailboxes, better privacy, better spam filtering, and a personal history navigation that lets you go back and forth among your recently viewed emails.

I send several hundred emails a day and receive at least a thousand non-spams every day. I need an industrial-strength mailer, and I get it from Thunderbird. I love it. You can run Thunderbird on Mac, Windows and any GNU/Linux flavor. Link (via /.)

Update: I'm having some trouble getting T-bird 2 to import my old 1.5 mailboxes and settings under Ubuntu Edgy Eft. Do you know how to solve the problem? I've started a Slashdot thread -- reply there. Thanks!