Brief Hands-On Report--Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 is Out

Following on the heels of Firefox 2.0.0.5, Mozilla released Thunderbird 2.0.0.5, its stand-alone email client. 2.0.0.5 is a security update available within the application's "Check for Updates" or as a stand-alone file from this Mozilla Web page. Here are the details:

MFSA 2007-23 Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer
MFSA 2007-18 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

We use Thunderbird alongside Apple Mail because Mail has difficulty with the custom security certificate for one of our email accounts. We installed v2.0.0.5 via "Check for Updates" under the Help menu and have noticed no problems with our email account, an IMAP account with an LDAP address directory. [Bill Fox]