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Thunderbird -- Best E-Mail Tool Available
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what a nice surprise
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Much better than Outlook
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Thunderbird

By: Mozilla Foundation

[edit] Brief Description

Thunderbird, the open source email client from Mozilla, is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. It can import existing email accounts and messages from other email clients such as outlook. Features include: built-in RSS support, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering

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Contents
  1. DESCRIPTION
  2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
    1. WINDOWS
    2. MAC
    3. LINUX
  3. COMPETITORS
  4. VERSIONS
  5. FEATURES
    1. Message management
    2. Security
    3. Additional features
  6. AWARDS
  7. COMMUNITIES
  8. SEE ALSO

DESCRIPTION

Thunderbird is a powerful email client from Mozilla. This application is one of the most secure and reliable email clients one the market and packs bundles of interesting and useful features. With Thunderbird users can neatly organize the messy Inbox, using advanced filters and folder views. For those who like to keep track of what is new in the world, RSS and newsgroup folders are also available. It supports IMAP and POP mail protocols and it integrates a spell check and a fast search engine.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

WINDOWS

Thunderbird works properly on Windows XP (recommended).

Minimum Hardware

  • Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space

MAC

Minimum Hardware

  • Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
  • 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
  • 200 MB hard drive space

LINUX

Minimum Hardware

  • Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space

COMPETITORS

The many competitors of Thunderbird are:
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Pegasus Mail (ancient email client)
  • Novell Groupwise
  • Windows Live Mail Desktop
  • Eudora
  • Evolution (open source email application from Novell)

VERSIONS

The latest version is 2.0.0.6 and was released in august 2007.

The version 1.5 will only be supported until 18 October.

FEATURES

Message management

  • Advanced folder views (RSS and newsgroups also available)
  • Message tagging
  • Message history navigation
  • Very fast search engine
  • Advanced message filtering
  • Saved searches or the so called virtual folders
  • Relevant message alerts

Security

  • Phishing protection
  • Junk filtering using Bayesian spam filter
  • Automatic updates
  • Privacy and remote image protection

Additional features

  • Increased functionality with Mozilla Add-ons
  • Message Templates
  • Extensions and themes for changing its overall look and feel

AWARDS

  • Winner 2006 Shoppers' Choice Award, Best Communications Software

COMMUNITIES

SEE ALSO

Resources:  Vendor/Foundation |  Licenses |  Linux Distributions |  Programming Languages |  Programming Interfaces (API) |  Graphical Interfaces (GUI) |  Available Languages