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Still happy after al these years.

softwareFlunky 9th Nov 2009

I use Thunderbird 2 with the Lightning plug-in as a single user in Linux and it's always just worked. My main reason for using it (versus Evolution: my previous email program) is that I can copy the files to another computer running Linux or Windows XP, use Thunderbird there, and copy the files with new emails back to my main machine without any ill effects.

I'm still not clear on whether Lightning will be integrated in the Thunderbird 3 release, Also, how will Thunderbird 2 be upgraded to version 3, and when will we see a Thunderbird 3, 64 bit version, released. I wish the development team was a bit more public and gave us some kind of a timetable for rolling out the new features. Something like, we are bringing out Thunderbird 3, 32 bit, on December 25th, but integrating Lightning in it was too hard, so we're releasing a 32 bit Lightning plug-in in early March 2010 and don't hold your breath for a 64 bit version before 2011, would be just fine; at least I'd know where I stand.