Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.6

Rated 50/50 by Animal Testing Rocks at Feb 12, 2008

Beats the snot out of Outlook! Could do with better IMAP features implementation. Plays well with FreePOPs Needs to enable inbox compression (cleanup) by default

Rated 30/50 by ghammer at Feb 26, 2008

Works in a limited fashion, right until it does not. Happy to have Outlook personally. Get a calendar, redesign the server section, enhance the spam filtering and I'll give this another 6 month try. But not until.

Rated 50/50 by Ulmo at Feb 26, 2008

Better than Outlook. Need only exchange calendar synchro to replace it everywhere. Tettayes, you may leave HotMail, not Thunderbird.

Rated 50/50 by comeoffit at Feb 27, 2008

A calendar is to an email client as a music player is to an internet browser--you might like having it there, but it doesn't really make sense for it to be shoved up everyone's pooper as if it really made sense for it to be there.

Rated 50/50 by Mystenes at Feb 27, 2008

Best email program, and it's Free. It is able to filter spam, and it does it quite well.

Rated 30/50 by netean at Feb 27, 2008

Been using thunderbird for a while now - since V1 and i'm looking for something else now... I mean, it's ok and all.. it works. but it's just hard to explain.. feels klunky and slow. The anti spam tools are practically useless and I haven't found anything better that integrates with thunderbird (tried spamato... bloat!) I've got about a dozen add-ons installed and they help a lot, but that kind of tells me that thunderbird basically isn't as featurefull as I'd like. Works OK on my USB memory stick as a portable app. (bit slow though) I'm hoping Thunderbird 3 (or even the new eudora) will be better. but at the moment, Thunderbird is just... ok, nothing special, but ok

Rated 10/50 by ssb at Feb 27, 2008

How can you call this poor application better than Outlook?

Rated 50/50 by poisonu at Feb 27, 2008

Superb!! A great partner for Firefox....

Rated 50/50 by Ryusennin at Feb 28, 2008

Anyone who compares Outlook with Thunderbird is a clown.

Rated 50/50 by version at May 1, 2008

Improvelence: Why bother even rating it when you haven't used it in 2 years. What a stupid thing to do. Anyways, for those that travel alot and don't always have access to the internet thunderbird is perfect with its offline mode to search and write new emails. I really like gmail too but nothing beats a good desktop client to store and check your email with. If you have a nice webmail interface on your webserver such as roundcube then it compliments the desktop client well if you checking email on a random computer.

Rated 50/50 by mytake4this at May 1, 2008

T-Bird is a good solid email client. I am currently using Windows Live Mail, which is also a very good email client and it adds a few things. I can check my Hotmail with Windows Live. I am happy with both apps, and rate both a 5.

Rated 50/50 by Ryusennin at May 1, 2008

Improvelence: "it will never see any significant features added" Meanwhile... in the depths of a long forsaken übersecret German base... Mozilla is working on Thunderbird 3. Hey dude, get back to gmail and let us old timers enjoy our desktop emailer.

Rated 40/50 by mjm01010101 at May 1, 2008

"Works great but the days of the desktop email client are over. " LOL. right. While Gmail takes 10 seconds to search 1 gig mailbox for simple terms, and Outlook takes .03 seconds to search 20 gigs of archives, that will never be the case. Go ahead and really search on gmail. it sucks donkeysac compared to its web search.

Rated 50/50 by bufftbone at May 1, 2008

Blueberry Cheesecake Ingredients: 1/4 cup Butter, Melted 1 1/2 cup Vanilla Wafer Crumbs 1/4 cups Cold Water 1 envelope Unflavored Gelatin 16 oz Cream Cheese, Softened 1 tsp. Grated Lemon Peel 1 tbsp. Lemon Juice 7 oz (1 jar) Marshmallow Creme 2 cups Blueberries Frozen or Fresh 3 cups Frozen Whipped Topping (thawed) Directions: 1. Combine crumbs and butter, press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Chill. 2. Soften gelatin in water, stir over low heat until dissolved. Gradually add the gelatin to cream cheese, mixing at medium speed on electric mixer until well blended. Blend in lemon juice and lemon peel. 3. Add the marshmallow creme, mix well. Fold in whipped topping. 4. Puree the blueberries then fold into cream cheese mixture. Chill until firm.

Rated 40/50 by improvelence at May 1, 2008

Works great but the days of the desktop email client are over. They have gone the direction of desktop newsgroup clients and desktop chat programs. I haven't actively used thunderbird in almost 2 years. You can do much more with gmail/yahoo/windows live or even aol mail. Mozilla isn't even bothering with this anymore it will never see any significant features added, nor will any other email client. Move on. I give it a 4 because it gave me some good years.

Rated 40/50 by Metshrine at May 1, 2008

I absolutely love this email client, it is by far one of the best around. However, it is lacking in many areas, as others have said. I realize this is OSS and as such free which means I have really no right to complain. But regardless, I wish I could see some of the features for IMAP, such as those found in mulberry which is open source (now) but dead, be implimented. There are several functionality problems with it's implimentation. Other than that, a rock solid client.

Rated 30/50 by AlphaBetaGamma at May 1, 2008

Having used Thunderbird for years, I know that the real problem is randomly missing messages and folders. Just look at the MozzilaZine Forums any day of the week for tales of unending woe. Having myself seen important drafts disappear without a trace, I now use Outlook 2007 for receiving email, and only use Thunderbird for convenience in sending links to web pages. It is unfortunate, because TB is easy to use, but it is too unreliable for anything important.

Rated 50/50 by cearap01 at May 1, 2008

Thunderbird works - that's all you should be concerned about - the fact they issue fixes is a bonus, why mess with something that works and does what it's supposed to, Send and Receive email. I use Thunderbird on Linux, OSX, & Windows (no licensing fees) I mean come on what more can you ask from the developers?

Rated 40/50 by Artem Tashkinov at May 1, 2008

Alas, it's almost dead project. Thunderbird works nice, but it lacks many features from other mail clients. And it looks like no one is eager to develop it (except security fixes). Thunderbird 3 alpha has almost no improvements except support for native OS themes and improved messages labeling.

Rated 40/50 by eaves at May 2, 2008

A very good email desktop app. I use it on my notebook. Nicely configurable for odd server set-ups. It works.