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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows NT 4, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 882,343
- Downloads last week: 2,510
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 709 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Mozilla's Thunderbird comes into its own with version 2.0, offering features and innovations that take aim at both Web mail clients and industry standards like Microsoft's Outlook.
The program loads fast, even when weighed down by multiple folders and RSS feeds, and the basic feature set remains intact: good junk mail filters, HTML support, multiple identities, and POP, IMAP, and Microsoft Exchange server support. Security features include S/MMIE, digital signing, message encryption, and a built-in phishing detector. Interface tweaks maximize message viewing, an obvious necessity in an e-mail reader.
What makes this freeware e-mail client such a serious contender are the new features. Back and forward buttons, like you have in your Web browser, let you jump through messages in the order that you viewed them. Customizable tag names and colors make it a cinch to keep things organized, even across dozens of message folders. The folder pane is customizable. Gmail and Mac users will find configuration as simple as entering your e-mail address and password, with rumored support forthcoming for other Web-based providers. Search results can be saved, and Thunderbird has Firefox's extension capability, allowing for user-designed tweaks that greatly enhance the program.
Flexible, powerful, and lightweight, Thunderbird 2 is an appropriate companion app to Mozilla's Firefox in every way.
Publisher's description
From Mozilla :Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with such features as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Thunderbird provides effective tools for detecting junk mail. Its tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail.
View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your messages.
Version 2.0.0.23 has fixed security issues.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.0.0.23 has fixed security issues.
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- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 709 votes
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
"This works better than MS Outlook for Windows"
Pros: Easy to install & set-up. Easy to use. Did not drag down PC's performance. Functional.
Cons: While I did not have the opportunity to use it, support documentation appears light.
Summary: This is a free program that does the basics of MS Office's Outlook when combined with Mozilla's Lightening calendar and task.add-on That package is sufficient and a good deal for many users.
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
Pros: Very reliable, well supported alternative to MS
Cons: Better spam handling
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
Pros: Generally a good and easy to work with E Mail program, also simple to import info and mails from previously used E Mail programs.
Cons: Not to keen about the fact that it seems difficult if not impossible to edit the contents of mail you want to forward, especially deleting those you received the mail from so others cannot see.
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
"The email application is great."
Pros: Easy to use. I like all the add-ons also like the calendar.
Cons: I don't have any items for you.
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
"Can no longer write an email nor reply to one"
Pros: I like it ease of use when it is working correctly. I like many of the features over Outlook
Cons: It seems like every time an update is issued, something else gets broken
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