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EDITOR NOTES
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DESCRIPTION
Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. We are modeling ourselves after the Firebird rewrite of the Mozilla browser. Our intended customer is someone who uses Firebird (or another non-mozilla browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with their browser. Currently, mozilla-mail is not a good option for these users because link clicks and attachments end up going to mozilla browser windows instead of the preferred browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a standalone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0.0.22: Release notes were unavailable at the time this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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| Developer: | Mozilla.org |
| Downloads: | 114,180 |
| - Version d/l: | 868 |
| Internet: | Email |
| License: | Free |
| Date: | 22 Jun 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
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| Thunderbird User Reviews (153 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 23 2009 |
YOSHINATSU Been a long time since they started developing version 3, and we're still getting version 2 updates...?
(Version 2.0.0.22) | |
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 | Feb 27 2009 |
ZWIGGYBO I love the new version (3). Tabbed browsing of messages should open on apple-click, but still a nice feature. I prefer this for newsgroups/list, and version 2 has always been good to me, and so far version 3 is good too.
(Version 3.0b2) | |
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| Dec 31 2008 |
Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and other GUI apps for email will never fail to disappoint, because they try to do too much. Apple Mail is the best of the lot, but like every other featureful mail client, it suffers from feature-itis, and it will eat your mail now and then, given a chance. Google Mail, for better or worse, is the right thing for most people, and you don't need a bloated, craptacular email client to use it. Client programs are just another 100 things to wrong. You already have to use a bloated, craptacular web browser anyway, so why use another one for email... Try Fluid or Prism if you really need to have an icon in your dock for your email application. (No, I'm not shilling for Google. Like you, I resisted switching to web-based email for a long time. Now I wonder why I ever put myself through the pain of storing mail locally. That is all.)
(Version 2.0.0.19) | |
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| Jan 1 2009 |
GERWINPHILIPPO There's just one big disadvantage with GMail: it only works with a GMail account. Don't have one and don't want one.
(Version 2.0.0.19) | |
| Feb 9 2009 |
LARAINE I HATE web-based email. I have to use it when I visit my sister. It's too damned slow.
(Version 2.0.0.19) | |
| Feb 27 2009 |
THREEDEE912 Well, you obviously need sign up for an account to access it... Same thing with Yahoo, Hotmail, or whatever.
(Version 3.0b2) | |
| Feb 27 2009 |
GORDON142 That's great until you need to setup additional email accounts, or have all your mail accessible and searchable offline, or use encryption, or lots of mail windows open, or drag and drop attachments, etc, etc. Basically you simply can't compare web-based and software email clients. Web-based mail may be fine for some people, but it lacks a whole host of features people who use software clients rely on. Your review is very non-specific - basically you seem to want software clients to be stripped down and just like gmail. However, this is not at all what the people who actually use these clients want.
(Version 3.0b2) | |
| Nov 17 2008 |
PLANET I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.017 at home with MacOS 10.39 (G4 MacOS 10.39 1.2 GHZ) and at work with SUSE Linux (Dual 2.4 GHZ Intel) for about one year. At home I still have an old 300 MHZ G3 BW with Outlook Express and MacOS 9.21. What can I say, OE on the old machine is twice as fast, Thunderbird is way too slow and it can't show the replied messages. My personal conclusion is to downgrade to OE. One year is more than enough, sorry.
(Version 2.0.0.17) | |
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| Oct 17 2008 |
PENGUIRL Looking for a separate e-mail client for my work account I decided to try Thunderbird again. It's been a few years since the last time I used it and not much has changed. Still unable to import anything at all at launch, and Thunderbird still uses far too much of the CPU. 11% +/- 1% at idle on my DP G5 2.0GHz. Might be okay for some, but being a dedicated BOINC cruncher I am not going to throw away my CPU cycles on an idle e-mail client. I can't get Mulberry to play nice with gmail, so it's back to Correo for now. Maybe in another decade Thunderbird or Eudora will be ready for prime time.
(Version 2.0.0.17) | |
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| Aug 4 2008 |
ZX81 I use Thunderbird as a "second" mail app. The only thing I can say is that it works but my main complaint is that it is VERY SLOW ; I get the "rolling ball" for about 2 seconds every time I just open a new or even old mail, select the inbox folder, etc. I'm now looking for another free mail app that integrates SpamSieve. Any suggestion?
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
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| Aug 6 2008 |
ZX81 I could have answered my question myself! Eudora 6.2.4 ... Downloaded it again, after all this time ; not pretty, but really fast and works with SpamSieve. Last Beta (Eudora 8.0b3) is desperately slow ; well, it IS Thunderbird.
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Sep 27 2008 |
TUISHIMI GyazMail.
(Version 2.0.0.17) | |
| Sep 27 2008 |
ZX81 Actually, this I ended up using Gyazmail and it is just fine.
(Version 2.0.0.17) | |
| Sep 27 2008 |
SJK Tho' GyazMail costs $18 after the free 40-day trial.
(Version 2.0.0.17) | |
| Mar 1 2009 |
ZX81 Ended up using GyazMail as as second mail app. Very happy with it (and SpamSieve integration)
(Version 3.0b2) | |
| May 1 2008 |
SHATFIELD Open the address book from Thunderbird and click "New Card". Look at the Internet section of the card... WTF?! Where is the ability to add as many email addresses as I want to a "card"? Additional "screen names"? What a joke.
(Version 2.0.0.14) | |
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| Feb 27 2008 |
MAC MAIL As long as the 'BCC' button (extension) is not updated, I will not use Thunderbird. Just one little button, Thunderbird has not done anything (for Mac) since version 1.0.7 What a disappointment!!!
(Version 2.0.0.12) | |
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 | Jul 24 2008 |
O5220803 Checkout: http://forward.mozdev.org/
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Jul 24 2008 |
MAC MAIL Read first before commenting. Thanks.
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Sep 4 2008 |
HANKO A temporary workaround for me has been to go back to Netscape 7.2 (from which I recentlytransferred into Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 because this version is finally able to import all my mail files & address books), and send emails from Netscape with the desired Bcc tags. Really sucks, but until a BCC extension is available for Macs, I'm stuck with it.
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Sep 4 2008 |
MAC MAIL Somehow I found the work around and actually this is built in BCC only we didn't know about it. Select the address or addresses then right click on it and you'll see the drop down window with the choices of: to, cc or bcc. You don't need the 'Button' anymore. Of course, if you don't have right click, you can use option+click. Give it a try. I hope this will help out lot of those who wants to use BCC. Good luck.
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Sep 4 2008 |
Rather CONTROL+Click than OPTION+CLICK. Sorry.
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Sep 4 2008 |
HANKO Thank you for sharing this---I never would'a guessed. And it blows my mind that you got back to us just about 10 minutes after my post---and I thought it was probably a "dead" string. God bless you, Bill! --Hanko
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Sep 4 2008 |
MAC MAIL I always try to help.
(Version 2.0.0.16) | |
| Jan 24 2008 |
SPARTAN Disappointed by Apple and Leopard, I wanted to switch from the Apple suite to a more open set of tools, because I'm not sure my next computer will be a Mac... after being an Apple fan since 1984! Will Thunderbird replace Apple Mail? I don't think so. Like ETNIER, with Thunderbird 2.0.0.9, I have the message: "Import Preferences, Account Settings, Addressbook and otherdata from: Don't import anything". Good joke.
(Version 2.0.0.9) | |
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| Oct 2 2007 |
ETNIER On launch I was presented with an astonishing dialog box: something to the effect of "Import my address book, settings and folders from: NONE": there was no choice made available. After that I poked around trying to see how I'd import my Mail boxes and settings and AFAIK it can't be done. Too bad: I was under the impression that this (V2.0.06) was a mature product.
(Version 2.0.0.6) | |
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| Oct 11 2007 |
XYPHER Maybe this can help? http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/addressbooktocsvexporter.html
(Version 2.0.0.6) | |
| Oct 11 2007 |
XYPHER Go to Tools from the Thunderbird menu and choose import. Then select the text or CSV file. Worked for me.
(Version 2.0.0.6) | |
| Feb 9 2009 |
LARAINE I managed to import mail from Mail. But there wasn't a choice of "Mail". I just chose Eudora and navigated to my Mail folder, and as far as I can tell at the moment everything was imported. I find the Thunderbird interface rather messy and ugly so it's going to take a while for me to see if everything was imported.
(Version 2.0.0.19) | |
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