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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 24, 2008
- Total Downloads: 829,314
- Downloads last week: 1,711
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 706 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 2.0.0.16 is fixing security issues.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.0.0.16 is fixing security issues.
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User reviews of Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 706 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
"Microsoft has been outclassed...again"
Pros: Pros: Stable and reliable. Easy to set up, easy to use. several useful add-ons available for free. Built in spell check and spam filtering using a Bayesian filtering system is highly accurate once the filter is trained.
Cons: Cons: There aren't any.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
Pros: The spam filter I like, I get mail and that's about all I know or need.
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
"Eliminated all the problems I had with ISP's email program."
Pros: Easy and fast.
Cons: Too many regular sites show up as SPAM.
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Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
Pros: as a beginner i had a lot of problems with outlook express.with thunderbird these problems do not exist.
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