Thunderbird 2.0 RC1 has significant performance and interface improvements, including a filtering mechanism for displaying message folders. I find myself in a view that shows only folders with unread messages 90+% of the time. A highly useful improvement would be to not show trash and junk folders in the unread folder view. In fact, having a way through the UI to customize or create new views for the left side bar would be even better, though less likely to be something that I would expect at this late stage in the release cycle. I’m really enjoying Thunderbird again. Now, if we could just find a way to step up spam filtering a couple notches again, given that Bayesian filtering seems to have been defeated…

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