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Mozilla Thunderbird - 3.0 Alpha 1

enhanced version of the Mozilla mail client

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	3.0 Alpha 1
Release Date:	2008-05-15
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	837
Downloads (all versions):	20,977

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Product Description:

Thunderbird is Mozilla's next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.

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.

Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features such as S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices.

Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, support for HTML mail, labels, quick search, smart addressbook, return receipts, advanced message filtering, LDAP address completion, import tools, powerful search, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

What's new in this version:

The new Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Thunderbird customization from the hundreds of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown. Note that few add-ons are compatible with this early alpha at the time of release, as add-on developers need to upgrade them.)
The address book can now read data from Mac OS X's system Address Book, but that feature is currently disabled by default. To enable it, see this blog entry
New Crash Reporter (Breakpad) to report crashes in Thunderbird.
Searching bodies of messages no longer produces as many false positives and has become more accurate in some multilingual situations.
Improvements to our JavaScript engine have resulted in continued improvements in performance.
On the Mac, Thunderbird is now a native Cocoa application.
There is a version of the DOM Inspector that works for Shredder Alpha 1, available from Mozilla Add-ons.
There is a version of the Venkman debugger that works for Shredder Alpha 1.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Windows NT 4
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows 98

Additional Requirements:

Intel Pentium 233MHz Processor
64MB RAM
52MB HDD space

Editor's Notes:

Alpha 1 is being made available for testing purposes only.

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Considered the BEST by most users! - Version: 1.0.5, 7/14/2005 10:33PM PST

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bluntedboy

I have been using Thunderbird for well over a year now and I have no plans on using anything else ever again. I used to use Netscape Communicator 4.79 on my old Mac, I enjoyed the email interface included with that browser and could never find anything better in terms of speed and efficiency. Newer Netscape versions were just too bloated, when I moved to XP a few years ago (yes, reverse switcher) I settled on OE as my primary email client.

I really missed the abilty of typing in the first few letters of a name or just typing in "Mom" and having my email go to the correct place. OE would sometimes just not check my mail, or fail to notify me. Sometimes OE would just corrupt my mail files rendereing them useless. Combine all my troubles with the constant worry about security holes and I began to explore alternatives.

I tried several email clients including Eudora, but none had the same "snap" as the old Netscape and didn't have the launch speed of OE. I stuck with OE a bit longer, but eventually discovered Thunderbird at the same time as was switching to Firefox. I think Thunderbird usage would skyrocket if users were given an option to download it when installing Firefox. I have switched a lot of people, they will never go back to OE. The junk mail filter is flawless and adapts well, the look is clean and efficient. OE simply can't handle my 6 POP3 email accounts. Thunderbird can, case closed. Hard to believe it's FREE!

Needs much work - Version: 1.0.2, 6/29/2005 09:42AM PST

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author2

Thunderbird is typical of Mozilla design: decent enough for simple usage but put to the test it bugs out.

With daily use over the past few months I find that the program requires to be forced closed on a daily basis to eleviate phantom windows. The address book could take a cue from Outlook, the search feature could take a cue from Eudora which is superfast, and the email address auto-fill is often unpredictable.

So far, Thunderbird is a turkey, but its potential can go the way of Firefox (to browsers) if the delvelopers are smart about it.

Great - Version: 1.0.2, 4/8/2005 11:54AM PST

pdatalk-owner

This is now my favorite email client. It also is great at handeling RSS feeds. I have 6 email accounts setup, and unlike Netscape Mail, can handle them well. It works fine under what I've used it with: XP Pro SP2, XP HE SP1, and 98SE.