sayonararain reviewed v103.0 Beta 5 on Jul 16, 2022

Pros: Lightning is updated & fixed for the Thunderbird v56 b1 build. The latest Thunderbird, Lightning and Gdata Provider versions are always posted first in the official Mozilla repository:

Thunderbird (Candidates or Nightly directory):
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/

Lightning & Gdata (Candidates or Nightly directory):
https://www.techsplashers.com/write-for-us/

Cons: glitchy nightly & x64 builds, stick with beta x32 channel

Bottom Line: Bottom Line: Always download from the official repository for the latest builds.

Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

EndlessFall reviewed v56.0 Beta 1 on Aug 7, 2017

Pros: Lightning is updated & fixed for the Thunderbird v56 b1 build. The latest Thunderbird, Lightning and Gdata Provider versions are always posted first in the official Mozilla repository:

Thunderbird (Candidates or Nightly directory):
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/

Lightning & Gdata (Candidates or Nightly directory):
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/

Cons: glitchy nightly & x64 builds, stick with beta x32 channel

Bottom Line: Always download from the official repository for the latest builds.

Monkey_Punch reviewed v56.0 Beta 1 on Aug 7, 2017

Pros: If you don't need calendar functionality, sure.

Cons: Lightning is broken in this version and caused me to have to revert back to 55b2.

Bottom Line: Wait for them to fix lightning.

Monkey_Punch reviewed v52.0 Beta 4 on Mar 14, 2017

v52.0 is the shot in the arm this app needed. So much faster than 45.x series. Running the latest SQLite 3.17.0 version to reduce CPU usage, compiled by VS2015U3, gobs of bug fixes and performance improvements. Nothing will help you if your Inbox has 10 million messages though. You can't fix stupid.

some guy reviewed v38.0 Beta 6 on Jun 12, 2015

great email client but to block a email is more work then it needs to be, how about right click on message and have the option to delete/block all from sender !

Monkey_Punch reviewed v38.0 Beta 6 on May 26, 2015

Testing 38.0 beta6 build 2. Much faster than 33 and all the autofill issues I had are gone. Nice that they bundled Lightning Calendaring into Thunderbird finally.

Monkey_Punch reviewed v33.0 Beta 1 on Sep 23, 2014

Fixed some of the annoying bugs related to autofill and autocomplete, but not all of them. Still needs some fixing but coming along ok.

egg83 reviewed v24.0 Beta 1 on Aug 15, 2013

Ok, am not sure what changes have been implemented with this release, but as long as it still works, and I know where everything is at, fine with me.

Aegis69 reviewed v21.0 Beta 1 on Apr 10, 2013

21...?? I thought they were stopping Thunderbird at 17.

Music4Ever reviewed v19.0 Beta 1 on Jan 20, 2013

Yet another version, I'm really glad all my software don't go into beta & a new final every month as I would have little time to use my PC's - Good client but stupid update system. So 5 stars for the program 1 for the beta's ~

Aegis69 reviewed v17.0 Beta 3 on Nov 13, 2012

Just make the next update to version 500, then you will be hundreds of iterations ahead of all your rivals Mozilla!. Then stop effing updating the version number ever week, its annoying!!

Music4Ever reviewed v16.0 Beta 3 on Sep 27, 2012

New versions with few changes, I use Thunderbird in Linux daily & love it but the constant updates with few changes are annoying.

DudeBoyz reviewed v14.0 Beta 5 on Jul 12, 2012

This version (14) breaks some extensions that I rely on. Plus the changes actually make it less user-friendly and configurable than the 3.x versions released a while back.

Now that Mozilla has basically abandoned the product and also stop working on the Add-On / Extension sites for Thunderbird, many of the programmers who wrote those Add-On / Extensions have declared that they will no longer update their work, some in protest of the drop of resources devoted to Thunderbird. Some stopped updating their Add-On / Extensions about the time they did the rapid updates because every release required those programmers to update the things every time.

Thunderbird looks like it's going to be an abandoned product, which means I'm just going to stick with version 3.x and the Quote extension I use (Quote Color, etc)

Version 14 is a no go. I'm very let down by all of these issues.

NyaR reviewed v14.0 Beta on Jun 9, 2012

I like thunderbird and rate it 5 stars usually but this beta sucks. The tabs look bad in explorer classic. They removed the instabird chat features that were around in TB14 nightly and daily.

Sven123456789 reviewed v13.0 Beta 4 on Jun 5, 2012

For Firenze and Hilbert, no need for your spam reviews here. Thunderbird by far is the best email client still available. You guys go back to your windows ME pc's and enjoy whatever crappy email client you use.

DaComboMan reviewed v13.0 Beta 4 on May 31, 2012

Becky looks like something from the '60s and you pay $40 for that?! Yuck!

Thunderbird is free and has great addons to enhance the experience.
Stable too!

Firenze reviewed v13.0 Beta 3 on May 24, 2012

The worst mail client ever used. Becky! is so much more than that, and it doesn't need visible eyecandy for that.

Hilbert reviewed v13.0 Beta 2 on May 21, 2012

psycros is absolutely correct, Thunderbird is going nowhere.

It seems as if development has stopped, but to pretend it's still alive Mozilla occasionally change a byte or two and a new version number attached.

Every time I try Thunderbird, I hope I can pension off my ancient Eudora 7 but alas Eudora keeps bouncing back every time.

Email clients haven't evolved an iota in the last decade, unfortunately.

psycros reviewed v13.0 Beta 1 on May 2, 2012

1997 called. They want their email client back.

Still no third pane for contacts. Still can't import addresses from CSVs or similar files to save its life. Still can't figure out that "categories" and "tags" are the same damn thing. STILL lacks most basic right-click functions that nearly every other client has included for a decade. Hell, the UI just caught up to clients from the Windows 98 era. TB's only strength is its server database that makes configuring most accounts a matter of putting in your address and password - why can't that sort of innovation be extended to the other aspects of the program?? If not for that nifty feature I'd rate it a 2..maybe even a 1 just to drive home the point.

some guy reviewed v12.0 Beta 3 on Apr 7, 2012

see you next week when version 13 is released. Seriously their is a release every 2 days. Other then that better then outlook, but please unless it's a major please don't spam it!

euukoo reviewed v11.0 Beta 1 on Feb 3, 2012

good

Blaxima reviewed v10.0 Beta 5 on Jan 26, 2012

Postbox is not free, Thunderbird is and I find the fact that they use open source code to create paid software is pretty lame.

As for Thunderbird, I don't see any real improvements through the huge jumps in numbering. It's still a cumbersome resource hog

krgood reviewed v10.0 Beta 4 on Jan 19, 2012

If you want an excellent mail client, use Postobx. It is based on the Mozilla client and works great. I have used them all and keep coming back to Postbox. It works, simple to use and set up and has all the bells needed...They have a trial and is inexpensive to purchase. I gave up on TB a long time ago...

Aegis69 reviewed v10.0 Beta 4 on Jan 19, 2012

Ok Its generally pretty good, they have made a lot of improvements to the search functions and the IMAP support is great now, but the contacts manager is from 2003, literally. The contacts manager looks like its tacked on and from another programming language, it barely works and it need improving far more badly than any of the other parts of Thunderbird.

I have a feeling its such a mess that no one wants to even touch it.

NoMac reviewed v9.0 Beta 3 on Dec 1, 2011

Installed this latest TB Beta and didn't notice much difference from Ver. 8 Final, apart from the fact that Lightning and a couple other Add ons were no longer compatible.

Best to wait for the Final release and see what improvements will be made!

some guy reviewed v9.0 Beta 1 on Nov 16, 2011

good stuff much better then Outlook,,, non bloat works great with gmail few clicks your good to go.. I use it on my Linux and Windows OS

Vimes reviewed v7.0 Beta 3 on Sep 21, 2011

As I seem to be within the "intended user" group I have re-tried TB, it has been a few years since I last used it.
Well I am a little amazed, as we are on version 7 now, it is like a trip in nostalgia as it looks exactly the same as it always did. Whilst I appreciate that, hopefully, much has changed under the bonnet, the interface is still as ugly as it always was.
I still find Windows Live Mail desktop version to be much easier to use and better able to insert and manipulate photos into my mails. The same applies to other aspects of the client.
It seems that I was expecting more from TB than it actually delivers. I was probably fooled by the version numbering and the fact that it has been several years since I last used it.
Maybe for some people it meets their expectations but sadly for me it just seems tired and dated.

krgood reviewed v7.0 Beta 3 on Sep 20, 2011

TB is a great email client...However, Check out Postbox...Based on TB and Lightening works all the time...

Aegis69 reviewed v7.0 Beta 3 on Sep 20, 2011

Awesome email program, getting better and better with each release.

Be warned, there is currently no version of Lightning that works with TB7

Sven123456789 reviewed v6.0 Beta 1 on Jul 21, 2011

Very good email client. Not sure where the 3 rating is coming from. I dont use it mainly because I use the email client with Seamonkey. I'm sure most users use the webmail version of its isp's email. But if you can still use an email client software, this is the best. Allot better than the windows live software I tried a month ago. Man, what happen to old Outlook express..

some guy reviewed v6.0 Beta 1 on Jul 20, 2011

I love this works great with Gmail and Hotmail can check all accounts with a push of a button, non bloat, get the calender plugin

NoMac reviewed v6.0 Beta 1 on Jul 20, 2011

My e-mail client of choice!
Just hope all the add-ons work with this Beta release!

Sammo reviewed v6.0 Beta 1 on Jul 19, 2011

Excellent. More stable than version 5 beta was.

DudeBoyz reviewed v5.0 Beta 1 on Jun 3, 2011

You can tell it's a beta. It has some screen artifact issues (moving the mouse over all the text, etc cleans it up), lacks some IMAP folder functions (like being able to hide folders locally while leaving them still existing on the IMAP server), lacks some feedback options (such as detailed status when checking multiple accounts) and it's about 40% bigger than version 3.1

Still, it's promising. I'll test it on one machine but probably use 3.1 on all the others.

war593122 reviewed v5.0 Beta 1 on Jun 2, 2011

Excellent email client.

Wonder why they are skipping version 4 ?

Artem S. Tashkinov reviewed v5.0 Beta 1 on Jun 2, 2011

A very good messaging application.

DaComboMan reviewed v3.3 Alpha 2 on Jan 20, 2011

@some guy,

After installation, if you open help file, you'll find some info there.
Here's a link to some information.
http://www.mozillamessag...bird/3.3a2/releasenotes/

There's a conversation view addon that works just with this version.
Pretty spiffy!
https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View

some guy reviewed v3.3 Alpha 2 on Jan 20, 2011

whats new?

Orbiting235 reviewed v3.3 Alpha 1 on Nov 24, 2010

Just installed over 3.1.6. No real issues to speak of. Best email client available.

ac_zr5002002 reviewed v3.1 RC1 on May 28, 2010

I didn't know anyone was still using Windows 3.1. I have a very large peeve when betanews labels products like this. Please label as Thunderbird 3.1 for Windows!

nilst2006 reviewed v3.1 RC1 on May 27, 2010

Thunderbird has gone through many improvements, but it is taking way too much resources which make it as chewing gum on my computers and they aren't very old, indexing many times make the email fetch to fail (even if it is disabled). I rate it a 2 until Mozilla starts to make it eat less resources. I am reverted back to the latest v 2 again !

cekicen reviewed v3.1 Beta 2 on May 6, 2010

For windows 3.1 :)

Aegis69 reviewed v3.1 Beta 1 "Lanikai" on Mar 16, 2010

For those of you complaining about addon, get the addon called MR TECH TOOLKIT

right click your addons and make compatible

solved

also, google

tah dah!

Blaxima reviewed v3.1 Alpha 1 "Lanikai" on Mar 13, 2010

You see, this is why I hate Mozilla products. All of the extensions I have for v3 do not work with this release!!

The products Mozilla release are ok (far from great though) but the constant breaking of useful extensions and massive memory consumption are deal breakers for me.

Sadly this is still the best email client available

Stingray57 reviewed v3.1 Alpha 1 "Lanikai" on Feb 8, 2010

The latest version of Thunderbird is much faster- processing seems to be faster, as well as the searches. I've been using Thunderbird for the last couple of years. Thunderbird needs tighter integration with calendar, tasks and reminders.

And now that there's a XOBNI clone for Thunderbird; I don't look at changing for quite some time. I've everything I need...
http://www.lehsys.com/20...-mozilla-thunderbird-v3/

cool_guy reviewed v3.1 Alpha 1 "Lanikai" on Feb 4, 2010

This is an excellent email client. It seems to have good filtering techniques and in general it just does the job for me. I can either show or hide content with a click of a button as one would expect from a professional mail client. I haven't checked resource usage as I have 3GB of RAM on an Intel Dual Core and in my case it is more than enough however I do have sympathy for the users with less powerful systems and I understand their complaints. I firmly believe developers should pay attention to these systems. To these users I would suggest you try some of the other open source clients (many of them are written in GTK I think). Simply search for open source email client and you will get a lot of results such as 5 good open source email clients etc.

some guy reviewed v3.0 RC2 on Dec 3, 2009

my default mail client both in windows and Linux low resource non bloat and works great with Gmail

Satansgeek reviewed v3.0 RC2 on Dec 2, 2009

TB used to be my preference but having found it to take an age to open each and every time, crash far too often and use resources at a rate that made me wonder if a crash of the OS was in progress until I realised that TB was always the culprit...long story short I switched to Claws Mail. TB has many extensions but far too many seem to have been abandoned by their developers and it's too buggy, too slow to start, too resource hungry...hardy a good choice these days. There are better clients available.

mjm01010101 reviewed v3.0 RC2 on Dec 2, 2009

I guess the UI change is different and neat-o. I question what took so incredibly long just for the changes I am seeing.

I personally have less and less need for a program like this as newsgroups and e-mail management become less crucial to have locally stored....

LakotaElf reviewed v3.0 RC1 on Nov 25, 2009

Everytime this comes out with a new version either I cannot get use to it, or I do not like it. I have not decided.

I installed this and it took forever to respond, I had nothing but problems with it trying to configure it and when I uninstalled it after getting disgusted with it, it took forever to uninstall to the point I did not think it was going to for a while. I use window 7. Mozilla makes good stuff, but I hardly can say this is ready for big time yet. It needs work, so beware of it, it is a RC which is basically BETA so it is to be expected that error's etc will happen.

If your not wiling to fuss with this then do not install it, it is not ready for regular use in my estimation, it still needs work.

woodengod reviewed v3.0 RC1 on Nov 24, 2009

Better than Mail.app

skapig reviewed v3.0 Beta 4 on Sep 23, 2009

Nice performance increase in Beta 4, although it disregarded my existing layout.

Since Beta 3, it tends to not exit gracefully. It gets caught in a loop and maxes out the CPU until it is forced to terminate.

jowtron reviewed v3.0 Beta 4 on Sep 22, 2009

New smart folders are great, and so is the search everywhere feature, but the UI does need to be slickend up a bit more.

anomoly reviewed v3.0 Beta 3 on 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.

netean reviewed v3.0 Beta 3 on 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.

Somnambulator reviewed v3.0 Beta 2 on 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

us3r reviewed v3.0 Beta 2 on 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

pjb reviewed v3.0 Beta 2 on 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.

Sven123456789 reviewed v3.0 Beta 1 on 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.

skapig reviewed v3.0 Beta 1 on 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.

xanax reviewed v3.0 Beta 1 on 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..

Jesus Christ reviewed v3.0 Beta 1 on 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.

Ulmo reviewed v3.0 Beta 1 on 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 !

Aegis69 reviewed v3.0 Beta 1 on 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.

overlandpark4me reviewed v3.0 Alpha 3 on Oct 15, 2008

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

NunjaBusiness reviewed v3.0 Alpha 3 on Oct 14, 2008

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

FuzzyKaos reviewed v3.0 Alpha 3 on Oct 14, 2008

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

Artem S. Tashkinov reviewed v3.0 Alpha 3 on Oct 14, 2008

Changelog: http://www.rumblingedge....redder-alpha-3-released/

Over 400 changes listed, however I have a feeling that Thunderbird is dead ...

Second Shadow reviewed v3.0 Alpha 2 on 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 :)

guitarplayer9999 reviewed v3.0 Alpha 1 on May 14, 2008

My favorite email program. It is 10x faster than outlook and gives you so many ways to set up servers.

Tenoq reviewed v3.0 Alpha 1 on May 14, 2008

What the? The 3.0 alpha has been out for ages, with no further development. Why is it only now appearing on Betanews?

Regardless, unless you're looking to develop, the alpha isn't much good to you. Stick with version 2.

DakotaSunRunner reviewed v3.0 Alpha 1 on 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...

M a t t L e e reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 10, 2007

well the only downside to this is i cant find a good spam filter for it but it doesnt seem like a spam filter is all that necessary with version 2.0 rc1. its fast, secure and highly customizable

stisev reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 8, 2007

This is the best browser out there.

I've got Outlook 2007 but am preparing to convert all of my mail to Thunderbird. It's faster, more secure, and open source.

Orbitration reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 7, 2007

Using T-bird 1.5 now. 2.0 won't install at all. It won't even open past 2 seconds, with an error about can't write to file.

So much for this for now

With Win XP, AMD 4000 Single cpu, 2 gigs ram, 500 gigs storage. Probably not my system requirements.

EDITED: After doing a bit of sleuthing online and not finding any answers, I tried again. Then I realized FIREFOX was open as I tried installing, so as soon as I shutdown FF, the install went perfectly.
Sorry for the mixup, my bad.

doctorsmith reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 6, 2007

the best email client by far.
I'm amused by people who rate software low when after reading their post it's obviously their ability that they should be rating as a I or zero in most cases.
Keep using Outlook kiddies it's keeping the exploit writers in business.

oomingmak reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 6, 2007

Tried it several times and I just don't like it at all.

Many useful options are missing and the whole profile vs account vs user business is a total mess as far as I am concerned.

I've gone back to using Outlook despite the fact that I am developing a real hatred for MS and their products.

I was expecting this to do for email what Firefox has done for browsers. Boy was I wrong.

This program has got a LONG was to go before I would even think about using it.

bbfc reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 6, 2007

Used it for a while, but went back to Outlook 2007 as I prefer it.

However, as a free alternative to Outlook Express, its probably one of the best.

Promitheas reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 6, 2007

Very good effort to provide a free email client, better from Outlook Express. But i think it is necessary to provide a changelog too! I search theri site and i didn't find. If anyone will find it, please tell me. Thank you!

Mad_Griffith reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 6, 2007

That "bigmama" guy is just a troll, whose comment should be deleted.

Withall, this app has been serving my needs perfectly for ages.

Is there a changelog anywhere?

minklein reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 6, 2007

The spell checker does work under XP64. Something that MS can't seem to do with Outlook Express, even with Office installed.

You do have to train the Checker in T Bird. I use versions 1.5 of F Fox and T Bird, have not been very impressed with the 2.0 releases.

There are some extensions available that make T Bird a little better.

incisor reviewed v2.0.0.0 RC1 on Apr 6, 2007

Thunderbird (+ lightning and enigmail extensions) is exactly what i want. Runs smooth on my usb stick.

@bigmama:
please dont stop buying software which is worse than their free alternatives, you deeply deserve it.

Sven123456789 reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 24, 2007

Gave it a try. Its rock solid. But nothing ground breakingly new here. Until they add the bcc button in the address book, I'll have to stick with Seamonkey's email client. Still, its one of the better email software out there.

fudgeworth reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 24, 2007

Does it support Send Later as a default yet?

doctorsmith reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 23, 2007

would give a jellyfish an erection :-)

HelgeFossmo reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 23, 2007

zapatero: There is a mail server feature called IMAP, which TB does indeed support.
It stores mail on the server so you can connect from multiple places to the same mailbox.

Sounds like this is what you want.

zapatero reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 23, 2007

Does not have a remote mailbox manager, which for me is essential. I like to see the list of messages in the server before downloading them, and be able to delete them right at the server. I can do this with the Chinese client Foxmail, which I have used for years.

new_jamie reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 23, 2007

This is substantially faster than 1.5 on a PC. Also, the striped message listing is very easy on the eye, as is the new theme.

These features alone make it a very worthwhile upgrade!

Mad_Griffith reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Jan 23, 2007

The aestethic revamp adds a lot to the original product, which was already the best client for me.

sony2k3 reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 15, 2006

very nice so far

slegg reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 15, 2006

Any of the old annoying bugs gone at last? Or just introducing new ones?

How's the IMAP thing? Reliable? And what about mail filtering problems, when using dozens of filters and multiple accounts?

Anyway, glad to hear that things are moving.

Ian C. reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

I've been using the alpha builds of this for over a month, seems like it just started to gain improvements over version 1 once it hit beta status. The 1 major improvement it has (only one I really notice) is that the automatic updates for extensions actually work now. Although, I've decided to drop this as my main mail reader and just use Gmail in my web browser now. And once Gmail opens up to all their users the ability to download mail from foreign email accounts, I will probably stop using this all together.

CoreBurn reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

Beta Beta Beta!!
Wow, does it really need the word beta 3 times in the name?

doctorsmith reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

don't hesitate, just update.
great email client

@ bbfc, I think a visit to the optometrist is the solution for you.

bufftbone reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

keeps getting better

BlueBLocker reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

Release notes for what they're calling Beta 1 RC2 are here:

http://www.mozilla.com/e...ird/releases/2.0b1.html

The RC2 version of Beta 1 is running perfectly for me.

bbfc reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

Good for a free app, but in my eyes, nothing can beat Outlook 2007!

Pensador reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

I uninstalled the 1.5 and alpha versions and did a clean install of this version. I just opened the application and it has all my mail and settings, without the need of a import wizard!
I've been using Thunderbird for a while, mainly to fetch mail from my website and university.

Dreimanis reviewed v2.0 Beta 1 on Dec 12, 2006

yes, it will.

probably the best free e-mail app out there.

mahlerscom reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Dec 11, 2006

Just two questions

Before I download this, will this migrate my settings (address book, passwords, email addressees) from Outlook Express
2. Will it decode yenc without having to install 3rd party software, in other words, is yenc decoding built in?

Otherwise I've used it before 2 years ago and it worked great but not for the above that I recall.

Nikkie reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Nov 2, 2006

Love it.It works great and sorts junk email.

Browser12 reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Aug 30, 2006

So far so good. Used it for over a day now. Made it my default client. Sent emails and accessed my account from both IE and Firefox. Used every feature i could think of. Give it a try if your using 1.5 you won't be disapointed.

KaptK reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Aug 21, 2006

Won't even let me enter my server details due to them being IP numbers.

landfish reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Jul 31, 2006

not much more one can say, I can only repeat what others have said, just keeps getting better and better. 5 big stars all the way.
by the way I think you'll find "Tabbed Messages" is supposed to be "Tagged Messages", but tabbed messages would be a nice inclusion all the same.

chronon reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Jul 29, 2006

Just getting better and better ... but I can't find the tabbed messages and the conversion features...

yokozuna reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Jul 28, 2006

Thunderbird is a very good e-mail client. Multiplatform what makes any transition easy. I use both Windows and Linux so the multiplatform features of TB count a lot. To be honest - I use Opera as my browser but M2 is not something what I particularly like.

Is any room for improvements? Sure! Use less RAM, better antispam capabilities (I use this plugin: http://www.ibiblio.org/shadow/okopipi), minimize to tray, and in general some capabilities should be available out of the box (not plugins!).

Anyway solid 5/5 from me.

explirer2k reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Jul 28, 2006

Cool..
where do I find ?
* Tabbed Messages
* Conversations (Similar to Gmail)

Zankur reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Jul 28, 2006

good!

imanino reviewed v1.5 RC2 on Dec 26, 2005

Needs a lot of work with connections and processing with imaps..tends to always loose the connection and thus things can't be saved and you loose files, or you send things twice since you get no confirmation message or one that says connection to server lost. What irritates me is that loyal Thunderbird users like myself have been talking about this since the early days and its still on the list of things to be fixed. Unlike Firefox, the Thunderbird development model seems to be emphasizing functionality over bug fixes...sounds like some other company we all know...which is why I think firefox will go a lot further in beating up on big IW than TB will on Outlook..it might get Express one day but against Outlook 2003, it's a long hill.

butthead reviewed v1.5 RC2 on Dec 22, 2005

Some basic tings like a proper replyheader with time & date as well as the addresses is still missing (though possible to get through an extension). It also would be nice with tabbed email, tab for local folders, tab for replying, tab for calender (which is still missing in 1.5)
Have used it on win platform for at least a year now, quite pleased

Mark Gillespie reviewed v1.5 RC2 on Dec 22, 2005

Quite a good mail/news client, far better than Outlook Express. However, features are not coming quickly enough, in particular, the newsreader side has barely changed in the last 18 months. There is no attachement combine/decode for example.

I have long since moved to Opera, as it's got the same stability as Thunderbird, but with most of the features I need. It's also developing at a faster pace.

PaneTrez reviewed v1.5 RC2 on Dec 22, 2005

An excellent product. Faster and easier than Outlook and works better.

mjm01010101 reviewed v1.5 RC2 on Dec 21, 2005

No Issues. Finally it opens to my newsgroups and no my local folders.

tmaioli reviewed v1.5 RC1 on Nov 7, 2005

Rocks! Of course! Great product.

JonathanDoe reviewed v1.5 RC1 on Nov 7, 2005

Works great and has everything I need. I haven't ran into any bugs as of yet.

Metshrine reviewed v1.5 RC1 Candidate on Oct 27, 2005

Thunderbird is nice, and is my default email client due to the fact that it is the only email client that properly supports IMAP4. It has some nice functionality (such as builtin news reader, and the enigmail plugin is awesome), but could stand to be a lot better which is why it only gets a three. The spell checker is still very sub par (lack of punctuation support (dont and don't, etc)), lack of proper autocomplete in the to/from fields, lack of a built in calendar (which lightning should bring, hopefully), lack of a PROPER backup feature that doesnt require the end user to browse through a directory structure and find hidden folders to copy/paste somewhere else (THIS FUNCTIONALITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN T-BIRD SINCE THE 1.0 RELEASE)) to name a few. This is a very good email client and shows a lot of promise, but as Banquo said 2 reviews down, comparing it to outlook is very much like comparing apples to oranges.

And, not to go on a rant about another product but I forsee this coming up in replies and other reviews, to those of you who bad mouth outlook for security, if you keep it patched (which the last time I had to patch was with office 2003 sp2) you are fine. I have never been hit by a single outlook vulnerability in my entire time using it (from office 95 to 2003). If you leave outlook unpatched and unupdated then you are asking to be hit by a vulnerability and exploit. Firefox was more boasted as far more secure than IE and we all saw how quickly that went down the tubes as exploit after exploit was found and brought the FF users back down to reality showing them their browser has holes like any other

Anyways, great job mozilla team, but until the client reaches at least 3.0, i dont think it will fully blossom into maturity or have its full potential.

Ulmo reviewed v1.5 RC1 Candidate on Oct 27, 2005

I use it since the first beta (0.x)
No problem and I use the same folder shared between Window$ and Linux on a Fat32, sometimes width different versions, without problems.
Great Job. The only draw back is the slow and huge memory use. But the built in AntiSpam is a great advantage. The AutoPurge old emails is very usefull to.
I wait for XULRunner to make it fast ant it will be perfect.

Banquo reviewed v1.5 RC1 Candidate on Oct 27, 2005

"But for being more secure and functional than Outlook in every way, 4 stars."

LOL, that's hilarious. Thunderbird is nice but it doesn't come within a mile of Outlook 2003 or even offer half the features. Apples and oranges.

stisev reviewed v1.5 Beta 2 on Oct 14, 2005

This new beta completely ruined my Thunderbird install!

I had to revert to v1.0.7! Be warned.

TGB72 reviewed v1.5 Beta 2 on Oct 13, 2005

To much effort on security what is really nice but it can't import eml files by drag&drop like most of the well known clients does, is too slow for check and retrieve emails and a little unstable by moments. I hope to see these improvements in future versions since in spite of this is a very good and free alternative to the crap of outlook.

Kramy reviewed v1.5 Beta 2 on Oct 10, 2005

Great stuff as always! One of the few programs I don't stumble over bugs in.

Metshrine, I'm curious what type of computer you have? The things you listed never happen to me, and are actually part of the reasons I like Thunderbird over crap Outlook.

>> I've never liked programs that take it upon themselves to install files and folders other than where I specify.

I second that! I wish there was a simple checkbox setting on FF to store all data in the default directory, and same for Thunderbird...though I have my email profile store most stuff elsewhere on a different HD. I dislike that about Azureus, and anything MS aswell.

Also, something interesting that's totally funky. IE's interface doesn't respond to me at all. I might click the search box at google.ca, and begin typing, and it selects a menu and picks "print". Then I cancel and click the search box and begin typing, and it selects a menu and picks "exit", or "internet options", or "Bookmarks"...etc.

Apparently I type at the exact sweet-spot speed that totally funkies up anything MS, which means getting IE/Outlook to type a word into a box usually takes several minutes. Funky, eh? Certainly destroys all productivity for me, so I avoid anything they create.

Blaxima reviewed v1.5 Beta 2 on Oct 10, 2005

All show and no go.
Just like its browser cousin thunderbird is missing some basic functions found in light weight competitors. I've never liked programs that take it upon themselves to install files and folders other than where I specify. Mozilla has a huge following because its the Anti M$ but there are better alternatives for email clients and browsers than Mozilla products, but it is open source so maybe one day soon they'll get it right.

ModderXManiac reviewed v1.5 Beta 2 on Oct 10, 2005

Finally has the new engine implemented.'

But unfortunately it is only as secure as Firefox itself.

But for being more secure and functional than Outlook in every way, 4 stars.

Metshrine reviewed v1.5 Beta 2 on Oct 10, 2005

Isnt the point of a review to point out things that dont work? Thats why they post these betas here? So if you expect no one to complain and only post praise, that defeats the entire purpose of a review (which is also to post your opinion of a program). So please, dont tell people not to post negative comments, which I am about to do.

Thunderbird is a great email client, but at v1 and v1.5 beta, it lacks some serious functionality that should have been included from the start. Proper spell check, for one. I dont like the fact that it cant correct punctuated words (such as you're, wasn't, or isn't). I also dont like the email address recognition functionality that is used for the address book. When typing in an address, if it doesnt recognize it by the time I type in the first part, (and yes I've added a nickname) it adds MY DEFAULT domain.tld to the end of it. IE, if the primary email address used by t-bird is bingo@bingo.com and I want to send an email to bob@rocksit.com, I have a nickname for bob setup as just that, bob, and ALOT of the time, when i type in bob and hit enter, the program hasnt loaded its autocomplete cache to complete my address and it just adds BINGO.COM to the end of bob's address. Thunderbird should not assume that every email being sent, if it cant recognize it, is going to the same domain.tld as the sender.

As I said, thunderbird is a great program, and by 3.0 (what seems to be the normal maturation age for most OSS), we should see this fully blossom into a very very nice email client. I will continue to use this as my default client (as I have for the past 2 years), but it has a long way to go to catch up to many of the free/commercial clients available today. And by the way, the things I point out havent worked since 1.0, and continue not to work properly, so please dont blame this lack in functionality on it being a beta

To Kramy, your telling me spell check actually catches punctuation mistakes for you? Because I've never seen it work on any of my pc's or any of the pc's my co-workers and friends use. What type of PC I have? What exactly does that have to do with anything? It happens on VARIOUS configurations ranging from a dual xeon workstation to an athlon 1.3ghz to a p2 450. After reading your review, I see that you seem more and more like an anti-ms zealot. While I am not a MS fanatic, I do respect some of their products and try not to judge them sheerly on pure hatred. I type at 120WPM and see nothing like what you claim to experience. Typing something in an address bar selecting file print? Do you have your finger hovering the ALT or CTRL keys? That is the only way the print dialogs or exit option would be selected (unless you have a keyboard with built in shortcuts in it). Please dont bring IE into a thunderbird review, it has no place being that t-bird is an EMAIL client.

UPDATE - To sophist

These releases are not supposed to be posted here? This is beta news and the release above is a BETA, so please elaborate on why this shouldnt be posted here? As for the bug reports, I know that mozilla will likely never read these bugs here, which is why I submitted them back when .8 was released (and little has been done with them). Also, what good does it do to post it here? For the exact reason I just stated, this is a REVIEW site, and I am posting my REVIEW which has stuff I've noticed that is wrong with the program and have also reported to bugzilla and the official IRC support channel. So please, before you preach at me, dont assume Im some lamer who is just trying to flame a great product, I am trying to get more people to realize that there are issues and perhaps more people will submit the bugs I have found as well. Public awareness is the greatest motivator for a company to get a bug fixed.

bbfc reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Sep 25, 2005

Stick to Outlook 2003 - the best email client!

mjm01010101 reviewed v1.0.6 RC on Jul 19, 2005

Great for my uses, which is just to get pop3 mail and get it fast.

httpd.confused reviewed v1.0.6 RC on Jul 18, 2005

I have no idea why anyone would give this a 5, except for the typical grading on a curve that free software gets.

I use and like Thunderbird, and it's pretty good for a 1.0 release. But it has a long way to go. There are still problems with mail database corruption. (You better compact your folders often.) There are still problems with RSS. And there are still interface issues.

I understand the whole concept of bare-bones extensible software, but I feel they take it a bit too far. For example, it's just plain stupid for the only notification options to be a sound, a static tray icon, and a popup that lasts for (literally) 4 seconds. If you're away when an email arrives, you have only that tiny, static tray icon to notify you of new mail. (Yes, I know about the extensions, like YIMB, that offer other notification options, but I've found them too buggy to use.)

zridling reviewed v1.0.6 RC on Jul 18, 2005

Not great; not bad.

ecjs reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jul 18, 2005

I rather wait.

ecjs reviewed v1.0.6 RC on Jul 18, 2005

The best mail software.

Nnyan reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 24, 2005

Its amazing how people are so willing to show the world their total ignorance on any given topic.

For those who are not blind the release says that it is an "Alpha" release. Now for those of you that are totally clueless as to what an Alpha release is or have inane questions as to why an Alpha WOULD be released to the public (which just shows how little you understand software testing if you ask that question) SEARCH is your friend. One google search and I came up with many links one being;

http://www.sodabush.com/...docs/00,20020217,01.php

Thats a fairly simple explaination, hope you get it.

Now I use Outlook 2K3 at work until I got totally frustrated at its bloat. Thunderbird (pre-1 release) wasn't there yet for this environment so I'm using Outlook 2002 which is much less bloated and is OK.

At home I'm a happy user of Thunderbird and freepops to manage my 9 e-mail accounts.

terminalx reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 6, 2005

People apparently have hard times reading this is an ALPHA release its not even beta yet so of course it is going to be buggy you run the risk of putting this software on your pc if you dont know anything about said software don't d/l if your not part of the solution you are just another problem uninstall the software keep your opinions to yourself and use whatever makes you comfortable and instead of saying "this is junk" explain WHY what needs to be fixed that is the purpose of alpha and beta releases they use the feedback you give them to fix the issues...
apparently people that like open source software hug trees as well...I have nothing personally against trees...they help out squirrels, give me paper, they are fun to climb and you can grow stuff too!
Kidding aside though just because something is free doesn't make it any worse then something you have to pay for (personally things you pay for seem to be worse and have more problems IMO) and one final note THIS IS ALPHA and should be treated as such it is not a FINAL release so there are still lots of things to be done

Metshrine reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 4, 2005

Thunderbird has one of the BEST IMAP implimentations I've ever seen. I use it for this sole reason alone. Microsoft Outlook's IMAP implimentation leaves alot to be desired. Once this version is finally released, I hope they finally have the multiple smtp servers (one per account) working, because one for every account is a bit of a pain to work with.

To the reviewer below, I hardly consider myself an open source tree hugger, but when an OSS product outperforms a commercial application, I will use it. Not because it is free, but because it functions better in the manners I need it to. So please, before you review again, put some thought into it and dont assume anyone who uses this is as you say "An open source tree hugger", because you are just showing your ignorance and how uneducated you truely are.

codeaero reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 4, 2005

Laughable.. Compared to Outlook 2003 this is a joke. I rather pay for Outlook (that I use seveal times everyday) than use this junk for free. Terrible! Only open source tree-huggers will use this one.

darthbeads reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

@ jonspencerbx: calm down. really. it's open source, so if YOU want to go in and fix it so that Thunderbird runs for you, please, be my guest. if not, unstall this ALPHA verion and kindly stfu.

I have no problems whatsoever running this new version, and I have about 6 or 7 extenstions running. The only thing that has happened is that MinimizeToTray was hosed, just as the Deer Park Firefox Beta hosed it (the .dll error that doesn't go away, no matter how many places I save the .dll to).

the inline spell check is insanely awsome. i have been using the plugin version for a while, but found it to be a bit clunky and poorly formatted. this new native solution is kickin!

jonspencerbx reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

How should extension developers test their extensions if the program doesn't even start???

Exectly, they can't. If the mozilla foundation releases a public alpha, they should at least make sure that the product is able to start.

XF reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Again... this version is just for extensions developers and expert testers! If you're not one of those, wait for the final 1.1 version!!

ciayko reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Try to install but get error #87 and setup freezes.
Afterwards Thunderbid doesn't start. I resolved installing again previous last official version (1.0.2)

DigitalSin reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Same problem. Does not start anymore.

I cry.

henrypeck reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Been using Mozilla Thunderbird since it came out. Just installed the latest version and now the program will not start.

radukn reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Good... But not for 5, since emails with pictures embeded are not shown perfect. I subscribe to some daily news services, and on Yahoo Mail or Outlook Express emails looks fine, but with Thunderbird are problems... Too bad. If were not those problem, today I've been using Thunderbird...

AlanS2001 reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Love the fact that I can use the same high quality mail/nntp client on Windows, OS X and Linux.

AlanS2001 reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Love the fact that I can use the same high quality mail/nntp client on Windows, OS X and Linux.

AlanS2001 reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 3, 2005

Love the fact that I can use the same high quality mail/nntp client on Windows, OS X and Linux.

deviantATTILA reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 2, 2005

Overall a great app, and the new features in this version are appreciated, however, I can't resize the Options menu and the way it's designed now, a lot of stuff is cut off.

DudeBoyz reviewed v1.1 Alpha 1 on Jun 2, 2005

Minor thing, but that isn't the most representitive screen shot out there.

Madlew reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 17, 2005

I have to agree with everyone else, this is a great program. I've been using it since 0.6, It has everything you could want or need in an email app. If you cant find an extension that does what you want, wait a week and somebody will make it. :)

Tenoq reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 15, 2005

Brilliant. IMAP kicks the crap out of Outlook (both express and 2k3). For personal use this is really the best product I've tried. Not sure how it stands in a corporate 'Exchange' type environment tho.

As mentioned previously, it's only shortcoming is a calendar and Palm Sync. The sooner Sunbird gets going with that, the better!

Kr0m reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 12, 2005

Poor quality? LOL!
Thunderbird is simply the best FREE FREE FREE email client available. It's probably better than most scamware (shareware) clients as well. It also handles newsgroups.

cyberguy reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 11, 2005

Recently got fed up with Microsoft's paranoid activation nightmare and ripped Outlook 2003 off my system for good.

Now that Thunderbird has the public inbox and support for multiple accounts (i've got 12 of them) i'm a convert. So far it is workling so well I don't miss Outlook whatsoever.

It is an excellent email client and meets my needs perfectly.

zellofellow reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 11, 2005

I love Thunderbird, and I think it is growing into a real viable competition for Outlook.

I would really like to see a good solid conduit for sync'ing with Palm and/or Pocket PC devices. This is the only thing right now that keeps me from switching to Thunderbird as my full-time client.

Hats off to Mozilla for the IMAP functionality...works great!

mjm01010101 reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 10, 2005

Never had a problem with Thunderbird. This version installed over 1.0 fine.

finalcut reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 10, 2005

very poor quality email client
still young client tho

thebat is way better in term of quality, reliability, options

Squire72 reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 10, 2005

I've been using this as my primary mail client for over a year at home, and I use Outlook at work. Honestly, I much prefer Thunderbird, although they could go a long way if they simplified the options a little bit, added support for multi-part binaries in usenet, and improved yEnc support (not that Outlook can compete, since it lacks any newsgroup support, and Outlook Express is a nightmare... at least you can recieve attachments in Thunderbird without being afraid of virus activity.)

With time, I have no doubt, Thunderbird will develop into the premier internet mail client - for a version 1.0 and considering the code base is far younger than anything even close to the level of quality.

anti00Zero reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 10, 2005

for a free client good. but some shareware clients are better (much better).

but it's version 1.0.1 and with extensions and so on, the client is better and maybe in the future it will be a very nice client

ChadL reviewed v1.0.1 Release Candidate on Mar 10, 2005

I will give it a 3/5

It is nice, there are a few problems that stop it from being my choice over Outlook:
1) It's Outgoing mail server selection is very limited, and I have a very complex setup becuase port 25 is bi-directonaly blocke on my connection.
2) It does not have an option to run in the System Tray, and I run it all the time, so this is important.
3) It does not handle rembering passwords very well... it really needs to bind them to my account settings rather then useing a password manager.

The spam filtering is nice, but I use Spamihilator that has all the features of Thunderbird's learning filter, and a number more features that make it more effective, so I don't use Thunderbirds spam filter anyway.

Metshrine reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 3, 2004

I love this email client, with its great support for IMAP, I find it far far superior than outlook (FULL CLIENT). This client has just the right features for me, not bloated and very easy to configure. My ONLY complaints are these, the extension system needs to be standardized so that we dont have to constantly break plugins and themes with each upgrade, we need a way to add a seperate smtp server for each account, and we need an integrated system to backup all email and settings to a file like outlooks PAB, even if it zips them.

To those who complain about an archive install, i have no clue what yer talking about, the setup file on this link is just that, an installer. I have never seen anything else from thunderbird.

harrisben reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 2, 2004

I've been using Thunderbird for a while now but with this 'archive installation' it no longer functions.

Thank you!

sn0wflake reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 2, 2004

Dammit. Why's the downloaded archive stuffed with a million files. Make a singe install file! Deleted it instantly because I don't bother to install a release candidate that way >:P

alister reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 2, 2004

I have been using Firefox for quite sometime and love it, so I decided to give this a try and I am now using it instead of Outlook/Outlook Express. It is nice because I am trying to use apps that are available for Windows and Linux so when I decide to make the switch, I will not have to look for new apps :)

Alister

DiGiTaLFX reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 2, 2004

Great e-mail client on par with Outlook Express. However due to the nature of this program, it can't match up to the beast that is Outlook, so I'm sticking with that until Sunbird hits a usable state.

petiot reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 2, 2004

I wont be too critical because i like firefox. Thunderbird is nice but definitely too big (20Meg!!) for a relatively basic mail client. I have not found anything that beats i.scribe (or InScribe if you need multiple account and filters) in terms of size, simplicity, effectiveness and reliability ... those who even mention microsoft product .. well i am sorry for them ;)

Mark Gillespie reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 2, 2004

My email/news client of choice, but it's far from complete, as a newsreader it's pretty basic.

For now it fits my needs, but I hope they bring the newsreader capabilities upto that that of Outlook Express.

Some noteable newsreader features missing:

"Show Replies To My Messages", a feature Outlook Express has had since V4.

Killfile, there is no easy way to killfile someone.

zridling reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 1, 2004

If you count reliability and ease-of-use, nothing comes close to the consistency of Thunderbird.

Floodland reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 1, 2004

Sweet program. One curious and annoying problem: I couldn't find a way to change the stored password for an account. I had to delete and recreate the account with the correct password. As for some unknown reason, I changed the password in the server and thunderbird never asked me to type it again, just sit there and don't download the mail. Develpers, please is just one additional field to add to the account settings. Having no access at all to the firefox password manager is NOT cool. the logical place to do it is in account settings//server settings
Another cool setting to implement is access to the settings as in firefox typing about:config somewhere.
Thanks!
For the people having trouble upgrading: I had problems in the first time startup of thunderbird because I just overwrite 0.9 version with 1.0rc files. You'll need to wipe the program folder and only then copy the new files. As your profile is stored in the "documents and settings" folder, you'll not going to loose a single byte of your mails/contacts/etc deleting the *program folder* (usually "\program files\mozilla thunderbird")

DigitalSin reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 1, 2004

My favorite email client! I love the newer look, I really hated the old icons.

Only problem is the hourglass stays on the main window :/

Could be an incompatible plugin

Don Juan reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 1, 2004

No problems here. I personaly like the old icons and buttons better, the new mark as junk button is particularly ugly.

Diamhair reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 1, 2004

Have loved Thunderbird since .2. New version works fine, nice new skin too.

mjm01010101 reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 1, 2004

.9 came with an installer, this version has a zip? After I installed it hung on starup. Reverting to .9

Slinky reviewed v1.0 RC on Dec 1, 2004

Installed over a .9 install, really unresponsive... maybe others will have better luck, I liked the new skin though!

cristoforo reviewed v0.9 on Nov 30, 2004

A great e-mail client, stable but still has some little bugs to squash. The default UI could be jazzed up a litte, apart from that excellent!

kmleow reviewed v0.9 on Nov 29, 2004

Thunderbird is a good email client.

However, Plaxo has not made a plugin that works for it.

comctrl6 reviewed v0.9 on Nov 7, 2004

One of the best email clients I have tried. A little buggy, but since it's a beta I can't expect more. I can't wait for the version 1 to be released.

Grandpas reviewed v0.9 on Nov 5, 2004

Many improvements have been done: 0.1 versions were unstable with few functions; now, very reliable, many function (built-in or optional via extensions). Thunderbird is my main email client and I never loose any message. For those who think thunderbird is responsible of emails lost ... please check your configuration before ;-)

jennel reviewed v0.9 on Nov 4, 2004

I find that Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client are very useful. Both are much faster in performance then the Microsoft alternatives. I found that Thunderbird has the best antispam technology of anything I've tested thus far. I do not have to mark each junk mail piece as junk mail like I did with Norton Antispam. Thunderbird is an intelligent program which learns what is spam and what isn't making my time more productive! I highly recommend it and with all the added extensions and themes you can customize it the way you want! That is something Microsoft has a hard time beating.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.9 on Nov 4, 2004

open source, it's the difference between TRUST and ANTI-TRUST.

Great client. Mail clients are becoming irrelevent lately, but it does the job for me well with a few pop3 throwaway accounts and the occational newsgroup browse. It's Open source so I know I can trust it. Spam filter is vastly improved over previous versions and performance is wonderful.

FredBezies reviewed v0.9 on Nov 4, 2004

zridling : are you working for Microsoft ?

Thunderbird is a very reliable. I used it since 0.1 version.

If you cannot see the power of open-source and free software, and prefer some closed source software like this bad thing called Foxmail (which doesn't display mail thread) and doesn't have a built-in anti-spam sniffer, please close your mouth.

Thanks.

zridling reviewed v0.9 on Nov 4, 2004

Even though email is ironically one of the most unreliable forms of communication devised — Did you get my email? Did the attachment come through? Did it render the HTML readable? etc., — I've got GMail now and that's more than enough and offers a variety of options a standalone client like Outlook or T-Bird can't hope to include. I used Thunderbird through versions 7 & 8, but it was persistently unreliable and took forever to open. There's nothing wrong with Open Source, and everything right with its philosophy. I just want the best software, whomever builds it. But since I try to do as little email correspondence as possible, FoxMail is still the freeware king for speed and dependability.

mallory48 reviewed v0.8 on Oct 28, 2004

I don't want to be too critical of this software, because it's worthy, well-intentioned and put together by idealistic volunteers and in time it may well develop into a good client. Right now, sadly, it's completely unreliable. It handles IMAP badly. It takes ages to load and it crashes too easily. Worst of all, on more than one occasion it's lost emails somewhere between server and inbox.

Outlook, Eudora, TheBat and Mulberry are all much better clients, more reliable and just better to use. For now...

kmleow reviewed v0.8 on Oct 4, 2004

Great improvements as the version number steps up but Plaxo.com has not made a plugin that works with Thunderbird yet.

reets reviewed v0.8 on Sep 27, 2004

Great release! Just as I was looking for a program for reading RSS news feeds, they release 0.8 with RSS abilities. It's like someone there is reading my mind :S Scary!

Get IT!!!

RaphX reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

So far so good. Waiting patiently for 1.0 and a better establishment and userbase, so it'll have better plugins =)

masterren reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

Getting better and better every version! 0.8 is no exception because of features such as RSS support and a global inbox.

zridling reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

Thunderbird is now so good that I'm using it until they break it. I lost my plugins, though when I upgraded from 0.7.3 to 0.8 :-(

darkpepe reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

Huge step forward, but still no replacement for Outlook (not Outlook Express, that one is outperformed since version 0.4)

Namero reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

"POP3 users can now combine all of their POP3 accounts into a single global inbox under local folders"

Outlook style ...
now i can use Thunderbird :)

mmebane reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

Praise the lord, it seems the address book/mailing list bugs I had are fixed. TB is finally useable for me.

hariskar reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

Just the best email program allthough still beta. It is free and expandable with extensions. Highly recomended.

tobypowell reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

I have used this since I seem to remember it being called Minotaur. Very well written application, and the spam filter is fantastic.. Mostly works for me anyway.

Worth noting that the screenshot is very much out of date...

Download it, give it a go.

blackcherry reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

A fantastic program. However due to the 5 star reviews this page is starting to look too yellowish. Hence i an giving it 4.

ConceptJunkie reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

Thunderbird, along with Firefox, are far superior to Microsoft offerings (IE and OE), incorporating many new usability features while MS has remained stagnant (and insecure). Thunderbird is also far superior to that bloated corpse Outlook whose performance is easily an order of magnitude worse and TB doesn't choke on large quantities of mail store either. Outlook is very usable, but suffers from extreme speed problems when accessing large mail stores. Thunderbird handles large amounts of data with quickness and reliability and isn't bloated down with features only 5% of users will ever try.

For pre-release versions, these are stable, working programs with clean, simple, but powerful UI's and a capacity for user-built extensions that will continuously keep these tools on the leading edge of power and usability.

The only significant feature it currently lacks is the ability to archive.

Three cheers for the Mozilla team! Long live Open Source!

prandal reviewed v0.8 on Sep 14, 2004

It keeps getting better with every release. There's no excuse for Outlook Express users not to migrate to this. It is a superior, more secure email client.

If it could import from Pegasus Mail, I'd rate it higher :-)

mattnotley reviewed v0.7.3 on Aug 18, 2004

The best mail program out there for new Internet/E-mail users. It's so simple to use, not too cluttered and has a very good visual design.

Mark Gillespie reviewed v0.7.3 on Aug 13, 2004

Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 SSE2 optimised builds here: http://www.mgillespie.plus.com/Mozilla/mozilla.htm

zridling reviewed v0.7.3 on Aug 5, 2004

Wow! I agree, with this release, Thunderbird has finally come into its own, shedding a number of small annoyances in favor of stability throughout the program. While Thunderbird's feature set doesn't match that of PocoMail or Eudora, its stability, speed, ease-of-setup, and reliability is as good or better than FoxMail. With a host of plugins, Thunderbird does even more. Moreover, it now renders html text perfectly unlike before. Thunderbird is now mature enough to be my everyday email client, and I'm glad.

BladeZero reviewed v0.7.3 on Aug 4, 2004

The Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird product line is one of the most indulgent browser and e-mail clients out there. Perfect for every day use, both are extremely stable and powerful at this point, easy for new users, yet still cater to the advanced lite user.

The Mozilla team has created products beyond the average Exlorer/Outlook Express combo. Thunderbird and Firefox are just about a necessity for any user.

Pizda reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 30, 2004

Nice mail client, but where the hell is the archiving feature? I need to periodically archive my mail from the IMAP server (to save space, obviously) and I can't find it! Does it exist at all? Until this feature is implemented, I'm back to Outlook... Other than that, the client is perfect. Developers: Archiving!!!

lemonlovr reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 30, 2004

I can't seem to buy into all the hype about Thunderbird. Sure, it's open source. Sure, it's free. Yes, it's better than the predominant standalone e-mail clients such as Outlook Express and even Outlook 2003 (if you're not interested in other features such as tasks, calendar, etc.). And it supports sending HTML-formatted e-mail. Those are good things.

And now the downside: it offers nothing revolutionary. It is a standard, run-of-the-mill, folder based e-mail client. Out of the box (I am not very familiar with Thunderbird extensions so many of these features may be available as add-ons), my favorite e-mail client is M2, included in Opera. It handles e-mail, newsgroups, and newsfeeds (RSS) in one easy-to-use interface. In addition, it disposes of the complicated folder interface for a more easy customizable interface based on views (which are determined by message attributes). It automatically filters out mailing lists (such as Yahoo Groups). You can also sort messages by label (important, todo, mail back, etc.), type of attachment (document, image, etc.), contact (based on contacts in your address book), and search terms. You can also keep track of active contacts (those you have recently sent e-mail to) and active threads (messages you have replied to). For a complete review of M2 (and Opera) that I wrote a few weeks back, go to http://bhinc.home.comcas...opera-75-excels_30.html. The only drawback: you can't send HTML-formatted e-mail (only plaintext) although you can read such messages.

Sorry to promote M2 so much but I just can't understand all of the attention that Thunderbird gets. What's so special about it?

nth10sd reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 9, 2004

Very good proggie... better the outlook IMHO

btw for a "The Burning Edge"-like blog for thunderbird, look here:

http://nth10sd.blogspot.com/

MozillaZine thread is here: http://forums.mozillazin.../viewtopic.php?p=609728

Mark Gillespie reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 9, 2004

New Pentium 4 builds of Firefox 0.9.2 and Thunderbird 0.7.2 here:

http://www.mgillespie.pl...Mozilla/Thunderbird.htm
http://www.mgillespie.plus.com/Mozilla/Firefox.htm

Slightly larger EXE's but significantly faster than the official Mozilla builds. Will run on any SSE2 enabled CPU (P4, newer Celerons, AMD64)

AlanS2001 reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 9, 2004

I wish M$ released security fixes this quick!
http://www.codephish.inf...file=viewtopic&t=28

esh3 reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 9, 2004

Love this mail client! But can somebody tell me how to mark and down files in newsgroups? I have searched all over how-to-docs on this but to no avail. I would love to test the newsreader as well.

4rest reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 9, 2004

Very small and stable mail client - and rather comprehensive GUI, too. MARK GILLESPIE - thanx for providing your Pentium IV optimized build!

MrPuddles reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 8, 2004

I put this on my mom's machine and she loves it.

whitedeath reviewed v0.7.2 on Jul 8, 2004

five for security releases

davidtb reviewed v0.7.1 on Jun 30, 2004

I agree,
It's not as intuitive as I'd like it to be, getting applets to run correctly and and finding the docs why they don't is still a little rough. but it is small and speedy, I like having a mail reader separate too.

Mark Gillespie reviewed v0.7.1 on Jun 30, 2004

Good Stuff...

If anyone is interested, I compile my own Thunderbird builds, optimised for my Pentium 4 processor, using SSE2 instruction set. the binaries are slighly larger than the official builds, but much faster...

Get 0.71 Pentium4 build here:

http://www.mgillespie.pl...Mozilla/Thunderbird.htm

QBgreen reviewed v0.7.1 on Jun 29, 2004

It's getting there. Rather than discussing flaws, I'll say this combined with Firefox is a sure fire IE/OE killer. And still a .0 release. MS should pay very close attention.

distinguished reviewed v0.7 on Jun 20, 2004

Sleek GUI, I only wish it would keep the email databases and settings after reinstalling microsoft windows just like Eudora does.

sirhardi reviewed v0.7 on Jun 18, 2004

WOW,
works on future 64 bit OS'
s flawless, i needed to get a mail proggies a something didnt have OE working or missing...can';t get into that.
Thanks for a GREAT dfast alternative.

Skyfrog reviewed v0.7 on Jun 17, 2004

Very nice, after all these years I've found a solid replacement for the aging Outlook Express. I do find some of the default settings puzzling; for example it is set to compose in HTML format by default. They should know better than that. Also it automatically adds every person you reply to into your address book. After going through the settings though this is an excellent program. The junk mail filter seems to work reasonably well also; it's not perfect of course but what is.

xave reviewed v0.7 on Jun 17, 2004

Dreimanis, this is what beta software means... Do not use it as your everyday software unless you're prepared to have problems and have a good backup of your data. Tagged 0.7 means for Thunderbird being months away from completion (and being bug free), it's impressive that in its infancy so many people use it as thair default client (I do since 0.5) but it should not let anyone forget that it is still beta software.

On a sidenote, for us who were used to eudora (or OE for that matter) global inbox for several accounts and who always missed that feature in TB : it is now implemented in the test builds and should made its official debuts as a optional feature of 0.8

Dreimanis reviewed v0.7 on Jun 17, 2004

when i read two days ago in mozillazine.org, that thunderbird has lost it's address book for some user i thought, he must be some kind of looser, as it will never happen again. but, when dissapeared my addressbook(200 addresses!!) i call this software a crap and will never use it again

FOXiE-99 reviewed v0.7 on Jun 17, 2004

Like the song: "Simply The Best!"

hariskar reviewed v0.7 on Jun 17, 2004

A great email client. I use it as default client since 0.6. It is even better now allthough it is still beta. Try it.

Darken reviewed v0.7 on Jun 17, 2004

It's working nicely for me! Good job mozilla team!

coch reviewed v0.7 on Jun 16, 2004

Very good. I just hope users will not be afraid to download based on the 60Megs size mentined here. it is only about 6 Megs. Very good app, and more to come.

war593122 reviewed v0.7 on Jun 16, 2004

The bomb!!

OPaul reviewed v0.7 on Jun 16, 2004

A great alternative to Outlook Express with built in junk mail filtering and many other features. No problems with newest version.

jrepin reviewed v0.7 RC on Jun 16, 2004

The final version of 0.7 is already out and it is working great.

mcm reviewed v0.7 RC on Jun 16, 2004

If anyone wants the installer instead of the zip file you can get it from:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/p...nderbirdSetup-0.7rc.exe

zorty an enigmail update is available for the new version, goto:
http://update.mozilla.or...rd&id=71&vid=76

zorty reviewed v0.7 RC on Jun 16, 2004

e-mail client of my choice!
never let me down..

I hope enigmail updates their gnupg extension pretty soon (http://enigmail.mozdev.org/)... it takes thunderbird to an even higher level.

couldn't be any better. try it. use it. love it.

Jezz_X reviewed v0.7 RC on Jun 16, 2004

If anybody is interested in whats changed in the .7 build go here
http://forums.mozillazin...g/viewtopic.php?t=84778

contranj reviewed v0.6 on Jun 6, 2004

i like this alot, its simple and easy to use and it gets the job done. also its great that is is open source and multi-platform so i have the same client in linux as i do in windows which makes life less confusing.

hariskar reviewed v0.6 on May 14, 2004

I swiched from pocoamail to Thunderbird, which I like very much! It is still early beta, but can easily be the default email client. There are also many extensions for it, which can add new features. It is opensource and free. What more would you ask for?

newjamie reviewed v0.6 on May 4, 2004

Firefox = good
Thunderbird = bad

I'll stick with Outlook 2003, which is the best email client around IMO and also synchronises it's calendar with my Bluetooth phone easily.

RedBadger reviewed v0.6 on May 4, 2004

Like another person here, I like Firefox, but don't like this email client much. What I hate is how it quotes a reply... well actually it doesn't even quote, it just pastes the reply with no indentation whatsoever, or nothing to mark where the quote starts/ends. Don't believe me, then send yourself a quoted reply. And your reply starts at the bottom of the quote instead of the top like most people are used to.

It also should have a totally different name, as its using names of previous browsers.

jrepin reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

This is the best e-mail application. I also liked Eudora but it still doesn't have any support for UTF-8 and ISO encodings. And I also find anti-spam filters in Thunderbird very efficient. The perfect companion for Firefox.

FailedCRC reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

rubbish, the preview pane has been 'disablable' since 0.4 at least

Thunderriver reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

This program is nice. I can see it is improving, but still not convincing enough for me to switch.

The secure IMAP feature was okay in 0.4, and then it was broken in 0.5 and now is fixed again in 0.6
I kind like its new spam control, but it has a lot of false positive for me.

The tray icon feature is not available but I guess that's because Mozilla is native in Linux, and when developers port thunderbird to Win32, they could be careless about the tray icon. There are 3rd party plug-in to eable the tray icon feature though.

I am glad that in this build, they finall give users the options to remove the message preview pane. It is the worst feature ever introduced in Outlook Express or Outlook because of the threats from web bugs when you open up junkie mails. Outlook Express gave you the option to remove the message previow.. and Thunderbird was stubborn enough to wait until this build to enable this feature.

Well, keep improving! Maybe one day I will change my mind.

darkpepe reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

Crap. I love Firefox, but Thunderbird is just crap. Take Eudora for mail, and Gravity or Dialog for news.

Zankur reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

good&steady update has been feature of mozilla products.T-bird is improving,but still isn't good enough to be a permanent choice.Should be ready by version1.0.However,people looking for a change,will find it a viable investment.

JEdwardP reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

I hope to eventually be able to use this as my full-time client and give it a 5-star rating, but I can't yet. It still lacks on-server preview (downloading of headers only), and it's still quite a bit too large. I'll have to stick with Pegasus for now.

christoofar reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

As a longtime user of (abandonware) Calypso, during a recent search for a pay-email service, I grabbed this to try when Calypso couldn't connect to their server properly.
T-Bird seems to be a pretty tight , easily configurable email client, that can use multiple accounts . I've tried Eudora, Pegasus, & others, but this one , for me , is the most intuitive to use.

JolinFire reviewed v0.6 on May 3, 2004

Getting better and better. New junk mail sniffing tool is smarter than the previous one.

And don't forget this software exists also for Linux and OS-X.

Petr_Public reviewed v0.5 on May 2, 2004

It is free, yes. But I don't like it, it is slow, big (20MB on my disk) and have not features I used in Pocomail and now I use in The Bat. I don't like skins and strange dll's in programs I am using. I need templates with macros or scripts, powerful scheduller with backup possibility and for me, ThunderBird is only alternative to MS OE.

tannman1 reviewed v0.5 on Feb 11, 2004

I recieve quite a bit of email. I can honestly state that this by far is one of the best. A perfect compliment to Firefox. I am sure if I poked and dug I'd find some inperfection but as betas go this dude rocks

mosimea reviewed v0.5 on Feb 11, 2004

To disable the message pane:

Under View/Layout uncheck Message Pane.

For home use, Thunderbird can't be beat. Thanks Mozilla team!

Tridus reviewed v0.5 on Feb 10, 2004

Overall looks pretty good, although I can't find this calendar that you were talking about.

DigiSyn reviewed v0.5 on Feb 10, 2004

While I agree that Thunderbird is still a bit slow and could use work on its configurability in the areas of message preview and image downloading, I still believe that overall it is the best product currently on the market. the calendar is now functioning properly now , it manages multiple accounts the way I like, it has a spell check that really works, its free and the updates just keep coming. I don’t think I could ask for more. I used to be a FoxMail user, but now I’ll never look back. To everyone that has contributed to this project, VERY NICE WORK!!!

Thunderriver reviewed v0.5 on Feb 9, 2004

I never figured out why ThunderBird doesn't allow you to disable the preview panel. People are suggesting me to pull down the preview panel to the very bottom. Well, while you can't see an email is being previewed, your system is actually previewing it anyway!

They should improve more on the management with remote images download in emails and so on.

In build 0.4, secure IMAP authentication failed miserablly. In 0.3 it was working. In 0.5, I believe it is fixed, but I need to test it some more to confirm it.

XF reviewed v0.5 on Feb 9, 2004

Ok! I've been testing and using Thunderbird from the 0.2 days and now this 0.5 release is the best 'til now. For my personal daily use I couldn't find any serious bug that would make this a beta product... but still it is so major changes might still come in the future. I hope not, since it's very nice at it's actual state...

ReuvenNY reviewed v0.5 on Feb 9, 2004

Simply the best...!

jrepin reviewed v0.5 on Feb 9, 2004

This is a perfect companion for Firefox (Firebird) browser. The builtin antispam filter works great.

Martje reviewed v0.5 on Feb 9, 2004

Really the best email client, the only minus is that is a bit slow (or two bits) on older (read older processors) computers.

DigiSyn reviewed v0.4 on Jan 4, 2004

Great client with great options. If the calendar plugin worked I would be in heaven.

Perezoso reviewed v0.4 on Dec 28, 2003

Por fin! Traducción al Español disponible aquí / Spanish translation now available here: http://nave.escomposlinu...g/productos/thunderbird/

L06@N reviewed v0.4 on Dec 27, 2003

The RC1 of 0.4 broke my copy, but after the final came out it's been great!
Also, I love using the nightly, cause they are great. I do wish the memory footprint was smaller, but all great things come in time (still smaller than OE or Outlook!!) :-)

JolinFire reviewed v0.4 on Dec 7, 2003

No more a baby, but a child :)

Thunderbird in this version is truly awesome, and a pleasure to use.

Let's wait until 0.5 now :]

veeoh reviewed v0.4 on Dec 7, 2003

gets better and better! :D

Hywel reviewed v0.4 on Dec 7, 2003

Go Thunderbird ! Five stars all the way.

mmebane reviewed v0.4 on Dec 6, 2003

5 stars really isn't a high enough rating for this program... there should be a 6: "Totally Awesome". It is truly that good. Yeah, it's still beta, and a bit buggy, but it is so much nicer looking and feeling than Mozilla 1.5. It goes without saying that it leaves LookOut Express in the dust.

I cannot emphasize this enough: If you are still using IE, Outlook Express, or any techs based on them (such as MyIE2), stop NOW! Do the world a favor, switch to Mozilla products, or Opera, or something else non-IE.

TrueSatan reviewed v0.4 on Dec 6, 2003

Excellent and certainly my default client. Extensions and themes are without problems in the latest version. BTW anything running on another browsers engine ISN'T a client it's just a skin with attitude. If you want to get away from the vulnerabilities that plague any software that uses a part of or the whole of Internet Explorer or Outlook (outlook Express=Look Out Spam Express LOL) then Mozilla offerings are as good as you will find.

FailedCRC reviewed v0.4 on Dec 6, 2003

truly excellent client (even looks "pretty" if you like that sort of thing). The ability to bounce messages would be a nice feature, nevertheless, I use this alongside mulberry (which is truly the daddy of all mail clients) :)

finalcut reviewed v0.3 on Oct 15, 2003

indigital: myie2 IS a client. It just uses the ie engine
so, faster and more complient. So many sites only allow ie...

indigital reviewed v0.3 on Oct 15, 2003

The new version of Thunderbird emphasizes that the project is on a very promising way to become a competitor to Outlook and Outlook Express, to name a few.
Light and modular as it is it furthermore comes in an installation free version.

@finalcut: MyIE isn't a client, it is just an extension for the monstrous Internet Explorer

Fnatte79 reviewed v0.3 on Oct 15, 2003

Thunderbird really rocks... it has everything you need and much more... try it and you'll keep it! =)

eyeyamwetodddid reviewed v0.3 Alpha on Sep 25, 2003

One of the best clients available. I use it all the time.

muka3d reviewed v0.3 Alpha on Sep 25, 2003

The best e-mail client available! Also works well beside the best browser around, Mozilla Firebird!

nexusthai reviewed v0.3 Alpha on Sep 25, 2003

Simply the best!

JolinFire reviewed v0.3 Alpha on Sep 25, 2003

One of the best mailer I have ever used. Just download it and you'll love it.

DigitalSin reviewed v0.3 Alpha on Sep 25, 2003

I love this mail client. I've recently switched from PocoMail (good program, but couldn't stand the horrid interface).

I've yet to get themes to work properly though :/

Surge reviewed v0.2 on Sep 4, 2003

In mid-june I've switched from Mozilla Mail to Mozilla Thunderbird. Though a child of the same parents Thunderbird was fast and beautiful. It has the most needed features and is as stable as the rest of the Mozilla branded products.

dacaveman reviewed v0.2 on Sep 4, 2003

damn wrong post below. that one was meant for MS-DRM thing. sorry i messed up the rating. this app is great.

veeoh reviewed v0.2 on Sep 4, 2003

Excellent :) starts noticably faster.

finalcut reviewed v0.2 on Sep 3, 2003

good stuff but i still cant add 2 account using the same username so I'll stick with pocomail which is ROCK

Tidus41 reviewed v0.1 on Aug 10, 2003

Like most reviews here, this is a very good e-mail client, has potential..I would defitnally use this than rather outlook/express.

Mark Gillespie reviewed v0.1 on Jul 29, 2003

Nice mail client, using it as my default Win32 client for mail/news. It has some major quirks still (same as Mozilla/Netscape mail has always had), but it's stable, and better than most other clients out there.

I'm hoping that the developers now start thinking outside the Netscape box and start implementing things that people want, that would REALLY make this a 5* client.

PS. I switch off the Junk mail controls, and use POPFile instead, it's much better...

loosegroove reviewed v0.1 on Jul 28, 2003

A 0.1 release and already better than most of the email clients available. I can't wait to view the progress this client makes in the near future.
It's my new day-to-day email client.

rwabel reviewed v0.1 on Jul 28, 2003

I like it too. I really love the IMAP implementaiton. There are still some little things I don't like. It's a very slow in comparision with other mail clients. I hope they'll improve that during the next time. And I would also like to see the feature for POP3 to delete mails on the server after x days. so far it's only possible to delete mails on server when they're deleted or moved from the inbox. so please add that feature too!!

HolyLiaison reviewed v0.1 on Jul 28, 2003

I like what they're doing. Splitting up the mail/web clients in to seperate programs. Saves time for people that need one or the other. As always this is another quality release from Mozilla.

summa_sonnen reviewed v0.1 on Jul 28, 2003

This is a wonderful email client. I'm using this from the alpha version. It should have been named version 1 instead of 0.1. It has tons of features including the new 3 panes window (like Outlook 2003/2004 version) and a good junk mail filter. You can modify the toolbar. You can use themes (themes for the new version is due). Lot more features available as extensions.

borggraefe reviewed v0.1 on Jul 28, 2003

This is an excellent mail client! It's already very stable und useable because it's based on matured Mozilla technology.