Brief Hands-On Report--Mozilla released Thunderbird 2.0.0.4

Mozilla released an update to its stand-alone email client, Thunderbird 2.0.0.4. It is available from within Thunderbird via "Check for Updates..." under the Help menu or as a stand-alone updater from this Mozilla Web page.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 is largely a security update b ut it includes Korean localization as well. Here are the security fixes:

MFSA 2007-15 Security Vulnerability in APOP Authentication
MFSA 2007-12 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.12/1.8.1.4)

We use Thunderbird as our backup email client. This is necessary because we must access several email servers with custom security certificates with which, for some unknown reason, Apple Mail refuses to work but Thunderbird does.

We updated our Thunderbird client to v2.0.0.4 via the in-application "Check for Updates..." and encountered no problems. In two days of use we have not run into any new issues. [Bill Fox]