Excellent mail client from the makers of Firefox
Thunderbird is a desktop email client, an alternative to Microsoft’s Outlook, from the developers of Firefox.
Thunderbird is Mozilla’s award winning and free solution to manage your mail more efficiently. And there are many advantages of switching to it too. Unlike Mail for example, it can handle virtual identities and create on-the-fly addresses and it’s widely regarded as having one of the best spam filters out there. Most recently, it’s been updated with a slick tabbed interface to make managing your e-mail easier.
The fact that like Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird can be beefed up with all manner of extensions makes it an extremely competitive mail client. It’s also now much faster and more stable than before due to the Gecko 5 engine.
Getting going
Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird is painless. You can quickly import your mail and contacts from your Outlook or Mail account and set up POP3, IMAP or SMTP accounts in a flash. To stay well organized, Mozilla Thunderbird offers filters to deliver your mail into separate folders and inboxes. And of course, there’s a built-in spell checker to make sure that your mails are professionally crafted.
What makes Mozilla Thunderbird slightly more unusual is the fact that it comes with an integrated RSS reader. Nowadays, this is a little outdated because many people use a separate application – or even Firefox itself – to follow RSS feeds but it may be useful if you only want to mail and follow RSS feeds at the same time when composing mails.
