An alternative to the traditional mail clients.
Possibility to manage different
e-mail accounts, support for various protocols, possibility to use different user profiles, each with their own
e-mail accounts, backup copies of the profiles, etc... All this and much more is possible thanks to
Thunderbird.
Thunderbird, know when it was first developed as Minotaur, is a
free open source
electronic mail client, that allows the user to manage, send and receive electronic mail from a pleasant and very easy-to-use interface. Another key features is that it is a very
light client, and it hardly uses system resources.
What's more,
Thunderbird includes various
functions that make it a very complete
electronic mail manager. The main features of
Thunderbird are:
- Possibility to manage multiple
e-mail accounts.
- Advanced folder viewing and message tagging.
- Two message search methods: advanced search or quick search.
- Browse the message history.
- Access to news services by means of
RSS.
- Support for account with
POP, IMAP or web based.
- Possibility to create different user profiles.
- Make backup copies of the profiles.
- Phishing protection.
- Modify the interface by using themes.
- Possibility to add new features by adding
extensions.
Thunderbird is the alternative developed by
Mozilla to other more traditional
e-mail clients.