Mozilla Thunderbird 13.0 b1
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27 Apr 2012, Chris Wiles , V3
Verdict
This is the beta channel for Mozilla Thunderbird, but only advised for die-hard fans of the email client.
Review Rating:
Type: Full commercial application
Platform: Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Manufacturer: Mozilla
Size: 13MB
Number of Downloads: 16707
Price: $ Free
Thunderbird is a neat email client that has a small footprint and features some smart ways to stop junk mail.
You can delete junk mail straight away or place it in a folder for reviewing later. The filtering mechanism lets you mark junk that may have been missed, and it will use Bayesian filters to learn over time.
It is possible to customise the toolbars, removing and adding buttons at will, and change how the program looks with themes.
All the popular mail formats are supported and it comes with options for importing mail, address books and settings from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Communicator.
Note that this is the beta channel for Thunderbird, enabling you to test the very latest bleeding-level code.
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Do you agree?
Actually Thunderbird could do so much better...
I've used Thunderbird for a while. Its not true that Thunderbird has good spam filters. In many ways they are really far to simple in opperation and hard to set up.
Baysian filtering is all very well, but its just one approach. As well as this, there should be a stop word list, a stop email list (I often get emails cc'd to complete strangers with names like mine) and a character list. Russian or Chinese characters prove it is spam since I don't read either. If I did it might not be, but I don't! There are other approaches that should be included in any half-respectable solution. So far as I can see Thunderbird is way behind most of the pay solutions, but I don't understand why, this is not rocket science.
Posted by Mark, 10 May 2008
May be it's because I'm technically ignorant!
I've used T-bird ever since it became available. It's free. It works fine. It deals with spam without complication. I much prefer T-bird to Outlook Express because it's far more flexible. Yes, everything could be better, no doubt, but T-bird satisfies me and I'm grateful for this excellent facility. Thank you, Mozilla!
Posted by Nev, 25 Jul 2008
Thunderbird problem
Why will Thunderbird not import PST files without Outlook being installed on the PC ?
I have a new Vista PC and a back up from Office 2000, from my old XP PC - However Vista does not run Outlook 2000 - so I am stuck !!
Posted by Steve, 31 Aug 2009
Thank you
I've been fuming at the slow and clunky Windows Mail for years now, so to find Thunderbird has been quite a relief.
All I can say is thank you so much to Mozilla.
Posted by Howard Dean, 01 Jun 2011
Re: Thunderbird problem
The reason Thunderbird cannot import PST files directly is because their data are encoded in a binary and proprietary Microsoft format. Reverse-engineering the PST file format to extract their contents would be in violation of the DMCA, I believe.
So instead, Thunderbird imports the contents of PST files by requesting the emails directly from MS Outlook (via the Windows MAPI interface). That way, Thunderbird doesn't have to extract anything from the PST file directly... Outlook will do the job and pass the decoded messages back to Thunderbird.
It's a huge pain in the neck, I agree, and one of the main reasons I stay away from MS Oulook: it has very limited import/export features, and I have been caught out several times because of it.
Now I stay with email clients, such as Thunderbird, that "play nice" with others.
Posted by Matchstick, 22 Oct 2011
Cannot get Filter to work
I have followed the instructions under help to the letter several times but when I click OK at the end there is no list to use. Can someone tell me what to do.
Posted by Randy Harnett, 10 Jan 2012