June 16, 2004 (Mountain View, CA) – The Mozilla Foundation today announced the release of its next generation e-mail client, Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.7. Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.

"This release, with our smaller download size and performance improvements, marks a big step forward in our efforts to make Thunderbird easy to get and even easier to use," commented Scott MacGregor, Lead Engineer for Mozilla Thunderbird, "Combined with our adaptive junk mail controls and powerful tools like quick search, Thunderbird allows users to reclaim their Inbox."

New features in Thunderbird 0.7 include:

• Smaller Download: The Windows version of Thunderbird is now only a 5.9 MB download, making downloading Thunderbird a breeze for dial-up and broadband users alike.
• Faster: Significant performance improvements on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
• Extension/Theme Manager: New Extension and Theme Managers provide a convenient and secure way to manage and update the many add-ons that set Thunderbird apart from other e-mail clients.
• Improved support for IMAP protocol extensions makes Thunderbird the perfect solution for enterprise users, who are already deploying Thunderbird to up to 50,000 users at a time.

Thunderbird also includes numerous bug fixes and incremental improvements that make 0.7 the most usable and stable version of Thunderbird to date.

The release of Thunderbird 0.7 follows yesterday's release of Firefox 0.9, the Mozilla Foundation's next generation web browser.

Getting Thunderbird

Thunderbird 0.7 may be downloaded at no charge from www.mozilla.org. Users can also purchase an affordable CD edition from the Mozilla project's web site. Mozilla applications run on a wide range of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and are translated into dozens of languages. All source code and documentation is freely available under the open source Mozilla Public License.

Supporting Mozilla

Individuals and companies from around the world support the Mozilla Foundation through voluntary contributions of time, money and resources. To discover how you or your company can join in and help support Mozilla, please send mail to donations@mozilla.org.

About the Mozilla Foundation

Established in July 2003 with start-up support from America Online's Netscape division, the Mozilla Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open source software project. The Foundation is based in Mountain View, California and is the heir to the great legacy and tradition of the Internet's first widely used browser, Netscape.

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