But there is a trick as well!
Probably the most important feature beta 4 is bringing is a deep integration with Gmail which shines in two important areas. One of the first things you are going to notice while setting up new account wizard is the immediate support for Gmail in case you want to use it within Thunderbird. Setting up Gmail account manually is now a matter of the past as new beta already knows all the necessary protocols, encryption and ports which are necessary for properly using Gmail inside Thunderbird. You only provide username and password and rest is filled in automatically.
Second new improvement/feature I unfortunately found in a hard way is even stronger Gmail integration with Thunderbird I initially expected. In beta 4 Thunderbird acts as a fully entitled Gmail replacement email client which means whatever you do with the messages inside Thunderbird is going to directly reflect in your original Gmail online box. In plain words it means that each and every email you delete from Thunderbird is going to be simultaneously deleted from online Gmail account. This is pretty scary and way too powerful for ordinary user so in my opinion Mozilla should immediately disable this feature or warn beta testers about it. I was unfortunate to find this out in hard way though.
After installing Thunderbird 3 beta 4 and associating it with my account Thunderbird started to download all of my several thousands emails, putting them in appropriate folders and indexing their positions. As usually after Thunderbird finished its work I went to inbox and erased all of the old messages so they would not clutter my new disk. After all I knew these messages still remained intact with my online Gmail account. At least so I thought - used to from previous versions until I logged in Gmail online and with a terror realized my all inbox messages were gone online as well thanks to the strong integration. At least I would appreciate developers would warn me about this new connection between G and Thunderbird but as being beta they obviously did not bother about it. After all it seems they do not really care about importancy of the messages beta testers send and receive. So doing Mozilla a favor by testing its product turned out a nightmare for me due to their ignorancy of the new powerful integration with Gmail new Thunderbird is bringing.
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