Manage your emails with numerous powerful features. The tool imports your mail and contacts from your Outlook or Mail account. Offers an easy way to add contacts and detailed info on them to your address book. Filters your mail into separate folders and inboxes, reminds you about forgotten attachments, provides multiple-channel chat for real-time conversations, creates personalized email address easily, and more.
I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird for several years now. There are some reasons it has become my favorite email client. Firstly, I sometimes switch between Linux and Windows, and for the multi-platform usage Thunderbird is ideal, since you do not want to use two different clients. Secondly, this application not only manages your emails but also does many other things. And moreover, its features can be expanded by using any from a long list of available add-ons. In addition, if the application's interface seems a little plain to you, it is possible to change its look by applying any of the available skins.
If you are already familiar with Microsoft Outlook, starting to use Thunderbird will surely be an easy task. Moreover, you can use the tabs in the interface to display messages or access other services. Obviously, you need to set an email account before you can start managing your mail inbox. Mozilla Thunderbird will make this task very easy and even offer to create a new account for you. Fortunately, you can set various email accounts, which you can compartmentalize by using different folders. Not only mail accounts can be managed but also chat accounts and RSS. Fortunately, it supports multiple chat servers, such as XMPP (Jabber, Facebook), Google Talk, IRC, Twitter and Yahoo. Finally, the built-in calendar (Lightning) allows managing your events and triggering alerts, what is more, your calendar can be stored locally or on a server.
The program uses a fast rendering engine, so you will have almost instant access to the contents of your messages. And talking about contents: this program can make dealing with spam easier, as its developers have implement Bayesian algorithms that allow it to actually learn from your decisions.
All in all, Mozilla Thunderbird is undoubtedly one of the best email clients. It is constantly being developed by a legion of devoted followers; and fortunately, the program can connect to the Internet and check your version so that you are always up-to-date. Perhaps, my only objection is that I find that chatting is somewhat slow compared to other messengers.
v52.5 [Jan 22, 2018]
- Folder pane toolbar and folder view selector (replacement for folder view arrows).
- Optionally remove corresponding data files when removing an account from Thunderbird.
- Import settings from Becky! Internet Mail.
- Possibility to copy message filter.
- Dictionary setting is restored when editing a draft. Content-Language header (RFC 3282) transmitted with message.
- Calendar: Event can now be created and edited in a tab.
- Calendar: Processing of received invitation counter proposals.
- Chat: Support Twitter Direct Messages.
- Chat: Liking and favoriting in Twitter.
- Chat: XMPP: Support SASL SCRAM authentication mechanism.
- Chat: Support Jabber/XMPP Message Carbons (XEP-280).
- The way images are included in a compose window has changed. Images are now included as data URIs and not as references to parts of other messages or operating system files. This allows better interoperability with office packages such as MS Office or LibreOffice. Images linked from locations on the internet will no longer be downloaded and attached to the message automatically. This can be changed for each image individually via the Image Properties dialog or globally by setting the preference mail.compose.attach_http_images.
- Correspondents column now default for all new folders, can be switched off with preference mail.threadpane.use_correspondents.
- When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From header ignoring Reply-to header.
- Formatting toolbar is now left in place when delivery format is switched to plain text only.
- Messages in IMAP folders read on external device are now filtered by default.
- Folders backed by mbox storage larger than 4GB are supported without warning (unless preference mailnews.allowMboxOver4GB is set to false).
- IMAP caching now uses Mozilla's latest caching technology.
- The keyboard shortcut to insert hyperlinks into a compose window was changed from CTRL L to CTRL K to align with Office applications.
- Chat: Removed Yahoo! Messenger support (since Yahoo removed support).
- Fixed Message preview pane non-functional after IMAP folder was renamed or moved.
- Fixed Editing in paragraph format: Pressing Shift Enter sometimes doesn't move the cursor to the next line.
- Fixed Various corrections when composing messages in paragraph format.
- Fixed Paste as quotation doesn't always work.
- Fixed Long lines in plain text replies not properly wrapped.
- Fixed Undesired white-space before signature in paragraph mode.
- Fixed When attachment unavailable, compose shows endless "Attaching..." message instead of error.
- Fixed Text encoding of reply sometimes incorrect (uses encoding of last viewed message).
- Fixed Text encoding of message display, reply or forwarded message sometimes incorrect (uses encoding of attachment).
- Fixed Delivery Format not preserved for saved drafts (Auto-Detect|Plaintext|HTML|Both).
- Fixed Reply to own e-mail does not reply with the correct identity.
- Fixed IMAP message part caching.
- Fixed Links with escaped non-ASCII (international) characters can't be clicked.
- Fixed Calendar: Events specified in timezone "local time" generate alerts in UTC time.
- Fixed Chat: XMPP Resource collisions.
- Various security fixes.
