Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.6

Rated 30/50 by netean at May 2, 2008

I use thunderbird everyday and it's... well it's ok... it's not amazing..But I can't quite tell you why. It does everything reasonably well with just a few exceptions: Anti spam tools might as well be non-existant they're so rubbish, and filters are just fiddly an annoying to set up. Adding additional components does bring some quite good functionality, but overall I just feel thnderbird needs updating and rather than just keeping up with other mail clients, could maybe start to do something truly innovative.

Rated 40/50 by outofspace at May 2, 2008

Quite good client. Personally i prefer M2 integrated in Opera Browser

Rated 20/50 by DakotaSunRunner at May 13, 2008

Needs lots of work, I uninstalled it. Not as good as what I have and not at all user friendly for server setup or signatures. Did not like this at all. They have a ways to go yet. I think they should stick to what they are good at, browsers...

Rated 50/50 by Second Shadow at Aug 12, 2008

Since no changelog was provided, I guess *I* will have to post a link to it: http://www.rumblingedge....redder-alpha-2-released/ Oh, well. That wasn't hard :)

Rated 50/50 by NunjaBusiness at Oct 14, 2008

I'm sure someone could have picked a less lame screenshot. Maybe something that showed a CHANGE?

Rated 50/50 by FuzzyKaos at Oct 14, 2008

why would it be dead, whats better than thunderbird on windows? and thats free?

Rated 40/50 by Artem Tashkinov at Oct 14, 2008

Changelog: http://www.rumblingedge....redder-alpha-3-released/ Over 400 changes listed, however I have a feeling that Thunderbird is dead ...

Rated 50/50 by topbar1 at Oct 15, 2008

If you have XP (not OE replacement in Vista I've not tested) and aren't paying an arm and a leg for MS Office 2007 (not Outlook 2007 I've not tested) and you want IMAP (GMail with IMAP) so you can have full on and offline functionality synced across desktop and laptop, there is no better email client than Thunderbird I've tested, and I've recently tested quite a few. Thunderbird is very solid and mature, and version 3 alphas show a nice visual refresh in addition to upgrades in functionality and performance. What's not to like.

Rated 40/50 by overlandpark4me at Oct 15, 2008

NunjaBusiness, maybe they did this screenie so they could see you whine? Your cheese is ready also.

Rated 50/50 by Ulmo at Dec 9, 2008

@Aegis69 - Try to manage multiples accounts on gmail - Try to create folders and filters on gmail ^^ - Try to protect your privacy from google ? Sooner or later, everybody will understand this. Take Back Your Mails !

Rated 50/50 by Aegis69 at Dec 9, 2008

Excellent product, but the days of the desktop email app may be over as people enjoy the benefits of having centralized, web based email like gmail. People don't have to know terms like IMAP or have to know to setup their SMTP settings in order to use gmail, and it can be securely accessed from any computer they might go on. I use Thunderbird because of the power features, as a system admin I find it and its addons indispensable, but for average users this and Outlook are total overkill.

Rated 40/50 by skapig at Dec 10, 2008

I much prefer using Thunderbird over Gmail. That being said, after the long wait for Thunderbird 3, I find it to be very disappointing. + New engine, so a slight bit faster. + GMail IMAP account profile which makes it a breeze to get connected to there (I have other accounts too). - Completely pointless tabbing added to the main window. Could not find a way to hide the tab bar. - Pointless buttons added in the message header area. Especially so if you have messages open in a new window. Buttons for the same functions exist right above the header. + Fixes a number of minor annoyances that users have reported, but these are only noticeable by very few. Overall, there is nothing Earth-shattering though that wasn't the stated goal of the release. It's an architectural update with the few big frontend changes being the most annoying. It sounds like the team is relying on users to handle the innovation with addons.

Rated 50/50 by xanax at Dec 10, 2008

@Ulmo - You don't REALLY need multiple email accounts unless you're some kind of v-pimp. You can easily forward all other non-essential email accounts to a single Gmail account for easy management. - Try using labels, they're really nice and they also show as 'folders' via IMAP. That's how I separate emails from work, voicemail and some online stores. Very easy to re-organize, you don't need to move emails at all. - Privacy? There's no such thing, unless both parties use encryption. Gmail or not. I still prefer using an email client myself and Thunderbird does a really good job. IMAP was a nice addition to Gmail, so now I can use both. I use Gmail when my browser is already open..

Rated 40/50 by Jesus Christ at Dec 10, 2008

This is an excellent e-mail program if you have multiple e-mail accounts to manage. Otherwise Google's gmail is better in every way. As for privacy, nobody respects people's privacy better than Google.

Rated 30/50 by Sven123456789 at Jan 31, 2009

Well they finally added the bcc option, now i can't seem to find the option that allows you to see how many emails are in each folder. And like the one user mentioned, the tab feature is totally useless in an email client.

Rated 50/50 by pjb at Feb 26, 2009

Works really well. Love the improvements. Have also been using the nightly builds, with no issues. Tabbed email is nice, good for checking between 2 emails without having to close and open each one. Thunderbird rocks.

Rated 50/50 by Somnambulator at Feb 27, 2009

works great so far and some nice improvements over 2.x. i like the updated GUI thats still extremely familiar to 2.x. so far i havent seen any problems with the beta

Rated 50/50 by us3r at Feb 27, 2009

Great application. Best email client I've ever used and it's completely free. Version 3.0 is just amazing, so many improvements regarding the Thunderbird 2.0 and the development team has already plans for version 4.0

Rated 30/50 by netean at Jul 22, 2009

thunderbird (2) was my main mail client for a few years, but there was always something about that niggled me that left me feeling I was settling for something that wasn't brilliant just because it was free. trying V3 beta 3, some things have changed, but really not a lot. The UI is still ugly as sin (llooks way better on OSX from the screenshots I've seen) but looks tired and old and grey in windows. Got multiple tabs - nice, but nothign much else that makes me want to return to using it. Mostly I've switched over to Postbox for my offline mail or gmail for online, Postbox is based on Thunderbird but ti's everything that TB should have been 5 years+ ago. It's free, so that's good, but there are 100s of free email clients that I think are as a good as TB.

Rated 30/50 by anomoly at Aug 4, 2009

Wow! Postbox is the slickest email client with the best (zero-configuration) setup I've ever used. It's based on tbird so has extensions and plugins listed on their site. Cpu is kinda high but so was tbird. Except tbird never flew so smooth. Was just about to try this again cause I miss the html views but after trying postbox there's no doubt tbird can't hold a candle.