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Install Thunderbird 3 In Ubuntu

I am never the fan of mail client. They are difficult to use, slow and ugly.

Mozilla recently released 3rd version of their popular email software, Thunderbird.  As said earlier, I wasnt much excited. Nevertheless I gave it a try. Thunderbird has made major changes in its UI. They have added new features like tabs, archive, smart folder and so on. More here http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0/releasenotes/#

After using this for few days I must say they have made definitive improvement on this software. I highly recommend everyone to update to this version. There was some problem with lightning extension but this is already fixed.

To install follow the steps below:

1. Open Terminal
2. Add Mozillas sources by:
• For Karmic:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

• For version older than Karmic:

• echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu ubuntu_version main | sudo tee -a  /etc/apt/sources.list
  

  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247510BE
  

3. sudo aptitude update
4. sudo aptitude install thunderbird-3.0 thunderbird-3.0-gnome-support
5. sudo aptitude remove thunderbird-2.0 thunderbird-2.0-gnome-support
6. sudo ln -s /usr/bin/thunderbird-3.0 /usr/bin/thunderbird

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