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Over the weekend, our friends over at Mozilla, shipped the release candidate (RC1) of the their Thunderbird 2.0 mail client..

Thunderbird’s update promises a slew of new features for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems designed around usability, better integration with online email applications and to “address information overload for users.”

New features include:

• Tagging
• Search as you type
• Gmail & .Mac integration
• Better filing tools
• Better support for extensions

If you love online email, why might you use Thunderbird instead?

Scott Gilbertson from Wired asked Scott MacGregor, Thunderbird’s lead engineer that very question today -

We believe the Thunderbird experience is better for moderate to heavy e-mail use. It’s much easier to process incoming mail — anyone who’s had to use web mail on vacation to deal with dozens of e-mails can testify to how tedious it can be.

Read more here.

Richard McManus, over at Read/Write Web has a fantastic overview as well.

Now, if they would just get Mac OS X Address Book integration, I’d be converted.

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