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Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac

By Mozilla Free Editors' Rating

Key Details of Mozilla Thunderbird

  • Take advantage of best-adapted, highly customizable, lightning-fast, safely secured, and private email experience
  • Last updated on 03/09/21
  • There have been 6 updates within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 0 flags on VirusTotal badge_icon
  • Also available on Windows

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Apr 2, 2013

Working with multiple e-mail addresses and inboxes often requires a management client. Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac, despite its dated look, performs well as an open-source e-mail manager.

As an open-source project, this program is available as freeware with no restrictions or payments required. Download and installation occurred quickly and without any problems. After initial setup, which prompted us as to whether the program should be the default email client, Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac welcomed us with a well-designed main interface. Aesthetically, the graphics were dated and would have been appropriate for a program several years old, as opposed to a newer application. As freeware, this was not an overall detriment. While there were no dedicated instructions, menus easily walk the user through entering email data for syncing. The application quickly began downloading the existing inbox contents. Buttons for composing emails and other typical functions were well placed and easy to locate. Even with multiple email addresses entered, it was easy to read the messages and determine from which address they originated. The email reading window was also large, an appropriate choice for a manager.

For those looking to manage their email using a client, Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac functions well and provides all expected features.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 78.3.3

Fixed:
New mail notification did not occur for newly arrived messages if previously received mail was unread
Directory for saving multiple attachments was not remembered between saves
Automatic account setup did not use the provider email and display name
Newly-added identities were not listed in the account manager until it was closed and reopened
Account provisioner did not properly handle UTF-8 data
Copying a large message to an IMAP server would sometimes prematurely display a time-out error
OpenPGP, Address Book, Calendar, Installer fixes

General

Release March 9, 2021
Date Added October 19, 2020
Version 78.3.3

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Macintosh
Additional Requirements
  • macOS Big Sur
  • macOS Catalina
  • macOS Mojave
  • macOS High Sierra
  • macOS Sierra
  • OS X El Capitan
  • OS X Yosemite
  • OS X Mavericks
  • OS X Mountain Lion

Popularity

Total Downloads 32,227
Downloads Last Week 4
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Developer's Description

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. Thunderbird includes tabbed e-mail, new search tools and indexing, smart folders, support for Firefox's Personas, a simplified setup wizard, and robust junk protections that include phishing and spam filters.