Thunderbird 3: have you used it? do you like it?

[ahhaa]

So far, I think the new features are major improvements to the email arena, especially archiving and multi-accounts sorted out.

However, this makes me wonder where Mozilla is headed these days:

Mozilla Messaging (abbreviated MoMo) is a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.[1] It is broadly tasked with aspects of the Mozilla Project that focus on interpersonal communications, such as instant messaging and e-mail. Its main focus is developing Mozilla Thunderbird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Messaging

[Jim44]

I'm still on the 2.x version, as I'm waiting for Lightning (calendar add-on) to come out of beta before upgrading.

As far as the "for-profit" bit you highlighted, (shrug). Mozilla Corp is also listed as a taxable (i.e. for-profit) entity on Wikipedia responsible for Firefox.

But, here's the organizational break-down from Mozilla itself:
http://www.mozilla.org/about/organizations.html

[freebird73717]

I put it on my wife's laptop and she likes it. However I did have to turn off the message indexing feature as it slowed things down.

[fritzi93]

Thanks, getting it now.

[Poppa_Meth]

I've been running it since it came out. The betas of the Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar extensions have worked just fine the entire time as well. I wouldn't let that stop you from upgrading. What I really like is how adding a new email account is much easier now. When I put in basic info for a Gmail account it pulls most setting for it automatically. The default Smart Folders view is annoying but easily fixed. Overall it's solid with a few minor quirks.