Thunderbird 2 RC1 and RC2 available ! (nightly)

although not made officially available though the regular Mozilla announcements site, nightly builds, apparently very close if not equal to what should be the final release of Thunderbird 2 later this month are downloadable at the following links:

Mozillazine thread indicating the availability of the builds
Link to RC1 and RC2

RC2 download (eng-US)