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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: May 13, 2008
- Total Downloads: 775,848
- Downloads last week: 3,460
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 765 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.
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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 2.0.0.14 is a security-fixing release.
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Version 2.0.0.14 is a security-fixing release.
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User reviews of Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 765 votes
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
Pros: This software kicks butt. Both Thunderbird and Firefox beat IE and Outlook or IE and Outlook Express any day of the week! Thunderbird is easy to use and I've been using it for probably the last....4 years now or so.
Cons: No calendar built-in yet. I know there's add-ons available but Mozilla should try and get a calendar in the product, that way people could use Thunderbird as a full replacement to Outlook.
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
Cons: It seems to be slow with loading messages and deleting messages than the other version. And it keeps asking for my password even though I have already entered my account information, it does this at least twice a day, even when I check remember my password. And when loading messages it sometimes stop responding and I have to shut it down and restart it.
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
Pros: Free.
Cons: Transferrred all my settings from outlook.Tried to send emails for an hour.It would not send at all.Time out errors dozens of times.Uninstallled.Gone for good.Never to be tried again!
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
"Best program on the market for email clients"
Pros: must easier to set up and use. (You can get the universal address book.) Easier and has more features than microsoft outlook.
Cons: nothing
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
"Less confusing than earlier versions, but can still be improved."
Pros: Ability to tag messages and Add-ons give added functionality.
Cons: Ease-of-use and intuitiveness of UI still behind Microsoft's email clients.
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