When mail arrives, the system tray utility not only informs you that there is new mail (as in previous versions) but also lists the first several e-mails. Unfortunately, it displays for such a short time, it's hard to read much beyond the first item or two, but the additional information lets you make an informed decision about whether or not to switch to your inbox. While you can customize how much detail you see in these alerts, you cannot affect the timing of the display, something that might be nice to add before final release.
In the in-box, you can place the cursor over any folder marked with new mail and you get a list of all the new e-mails inside, another handy new feature. Once inside the folder, you can see all new mail at a glance because of the nifty new-mail icon (an orange asterisk).
Warning Of Dangerous E-Mail
As in the previous version, Thunderbird warns you about e-mails with links to external images and those it considers possibly dangerous or false. As a result, it won't display images until you click a Show Images button. Thunderbird 2.0 enables you choose to always allow images in certain e-mails -- clicking a link opens the address book, which whitelists the e-mail. While this is a welcome change, it would have been faster if Thunderbird simply whitelisted the e-mail without opening the address book. It also would be nice if Mozilla could apply a similar principle to the mail it thinks is a possible scam, so that you can whitelist these as well.
In addition, Mozilla has expanded the Tag feature in this version, a long-overdue change. Instead of being limited to five default tags as in previous versions, you can create as many custom tags as you like, applying a different color to each one, then using the filter or sort features to organize tagged e-mail.
The RSS feature has been dressed up with new icons and the same ability to place the cursor over a feed and see the new items, but beyond that hasn't changed very much. The current system requires that you know how to access the Subscriptions dialog and makes you copy and paste the subscription link from Firefox into Thunderbird. Mozilla should provide a no-brainer subscription process that walks the user through the process of adding a new feed in 2.0.
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