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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 834,810
- Downloads last week: 1,712
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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 than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features, such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search.
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive e-mail experience. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Thunderbird provides the most effective tools for detecting junk mail. Our 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 2.0.0.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 709 votes
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5 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
Pros: "Mozilla Thunderbird" is by far the most fun, fast, safe and customizable email client there is. It has a customizable GUI with several themes that can match your "Firefox Browser" and thats one of my my favorite things about it. It has good spam filters and is smart enough to block emails with suspicious attachments, yet allows good size file transfers. It's easy to setup and supports several email formats. It far outshines the email client built into windows, regardless of which version you use. It's free and I can attest to it running great with "Vista".
Cons: I have no complaints to offer here.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
Pros: fast and secure like firefox
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
"Great, but if you have GMail...."
Pros: Thunderbird is great and completely matches Firefox, but if you have Gmail, there really is no reason to move from your browser. You'll see all your mail in Courier font, and you can't do Gmail chat.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
Pros: Its is everything outlook express wanted to be
The best free POP client software Ive tried
No bugs so far...unlike incredimail
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
"Great product from the Mozilla team of course...."
Pros: Full of features, very quick in checking and downloading mail. Add-ons are always nice.
Cons: I did find it a bit difficult to set up at the beginning.
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