What I like best about TBird is the new anti-spam (“Junk”) feature, which makes life far easier than when we had to use filters for each email box. TBird is not only very solid and easily handled, but an easily-fixed application– not that it ever needs much attention. TBird has been a reliable, stable email application, and these days, that makes it a prized asset. Your needs may not be that complex, but simply being able to say things like “if this is from someone in my address book, move it into this folder” is a powerful way to prioritize your approach to email.įor about a decade, I have used the basic email “engine” for Thunderbird (even since it was part of the Netscape email application). For example, I have 37 separate filters that automatically sort incoming email and place it into various folders based on various criteria. Filters: Thunderbird supports a set of very powerful filters that allow you to have it take action automatically on mail as it arrives.Examples include Lightning, the calendar add-on and the Google Calendar Provider, the Enigmail encryption add-on, QuickText which allows you to enter common responses with a single keystroke, and one of my favorites, Nostalgy which allows you to copy or move messages between folder extremely easily using the keyboard. Extensions: like its cousin FireFox, Thunderbird has a number of powerful Add-ons available.The result was that not only did my email get transferred, but all the account settings, filters and even supported extensions were moved as well. As I said, transferring was a simple copy of all the folders and support information. Cross-platform support: I’ve successfully moved my email not only between Windows PCs, but also to my Mac and to my Linux machines.Moving your Thunderbird email from machine to machine is as simple as copying the folder tree. Thunderbird uses a simple on-disk folder structure that mirrors your email folder structure, and actual email is kept as plain text files. Many email programs use proprietary database formats that, quite frankly, seem prone to breaking and make it difficult to move from machine to machine. File Format: Thunderbird uses a standard, common plain text file format for its data store (mbox format, for the geeks among us).Comfort: Most users of Outlook Express will actually feel very comfortable in Thunderbird.That part’s easy, and makes it something that is risk free to try and experiment with before deciding. Free: You already know that Thunderbird‘s free.The feature list is long, but I want to call out some of my favorite features and some of the things that personally draw me to Thunderbird and cause me to make it my recommendation for almost anyone using a desktop email program. I use it all day every day, and I can heartily recommend it as an often more powerful and capable replacement for mail programs like Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail and many other desktop email applications. Mozilla’s Thunderbird is my choice for email.
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