Mozilla Thunderbird 17 is a fully featured, secure and very functional
email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently
and with style, and Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. It offers a
pretty and streamlined interface to a very powerful email package. Not
only is Thunderbird a secure email client, a sophisticated and very well
integrated Bayesian spam filter knocks out most junk mail (after some
training).
Combine these two aspects of Thunderbird, and you get a
sensible feature that automatically sanitizes (potentially dangerous)
HTML code and turns off remote images for spam or anything else – worms,
viruses – you classify as bad mail. Though not perfect, a scam sensor
detects tactics commonly used to fool users. Thunderbird is just as good
for good mail as it is against the bad. Flexible views, free-form tags
and powerful filters, search and virtual folders (which also work fine
with IMAP accounts and across email accounts) make it a snap to handle
large amounts of mail.
Thunderbird, as a messaging system, is uniquely positioned as the tool
that users can use to integrate as many of their communications as they
want. By combining an open architecture, a powerful extensibility and
customization framework, and a person-centric perspective on
communications, Thunderbird is a powerful yet enjoyable to
• Mozilla Thunderbird manages multiple POP and IMAP email accounts and reads RSS feeds.
• A junk mail filter using Bayesian statistics cans spam automatically in Mozilla Thunderbird.
• Mail views, free-form message tags and flexible filters let you organize and prioritize good mail easily.
• Searches can be saved to virtual folders that automatically aggregate relevant mail in Thunderbird.
• Mozilla Thunderbird offers rich, but security and privacy conscious HTML formatting support.
• Mail classified as junk can automatically be sanitized, Thunderbird detects common scam tactics.
• S/MIME support lets you encrypt and sign mail in Mozilla Thunderbird (OpenPGP plug-in available).
• You can run Mozilla Thunderbird from a removable medium such as USB stick.
• Many extensions more allow Mozilla Thunderbird to expand its feature set or improve usability.
• Mozilla Thunderbird supports Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
