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Downloads:
763,556
- Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP, 233Mhz CPU, 64MB RAM
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
January 12, 2006
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Publisher's description of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
From Mozilla:Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features, such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search.
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive e-mail experience. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Thunderbird provides the most effective tools for detecting junk mail. Our tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail. View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your messages.
Version 1.5 adds a variety of new feature and bug fixes, including spell-checking as you type, integration with server-side spam filtering, message aging, and a built-in phishing detector.
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Editor's review of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
4.0 stars
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User reviews of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 660 votes
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21 out of 31 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
"Looks exactly like Outlook Express...not as fast though"
Pros: Its free.
It looks and feels exactly like Outlook Express.
It is Outlook Express plus some stuff from Microsoft Outlook not in Outlook Express.
Outlook Express mail and address book is easily imported into the program.
Comes will a built in spam filter.
Cons: The program is quite slow in comparison to Outlook Express. I ran it on recently formated-reinstalled Athlon 1.2GHz machine, and it was quite sluggish. Compare this to very smoot Outlook Express operation.
Import process requires that an account already be set up on the machine. You can't just open Thunderbird, click import and locate the mail backup files. You have to first have an account created in your mail program, and THEN you can do the import process, as Thunderbird looks to a default location for the mail backup files, you cant alter this process.
Same goes for Address Book.
Takes some time getting used to if one is a long time Outlook Express user.
You can import mail from Outlook Express to this program, but there is no way to export mail from this program back into Outlook Express. So once you start using this program you are kinda stuck with it.
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Im a long time Outlook Express user, and I really dont feel like learning a new mail client that is in fact slower than Outlook Express. So while Thunderbird is a great freeware product, I dont see the positives of using it for a user like me when all I do is mail and address book.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
Pros: makes email safe and faster. i didn't know emailing could get any faster but it can
Cons: no too many
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
Pros: I like that it helps protect users by labeling things that might be a scam. Some emails aren't scams but it's extra protection either way. I really like the spell as you go add-on they've put in.
Cons: Add calendar like Outlook. I know there's extensions out there on Mozilla's site but when I've tried them, they've totally crashed Thunderbird, they make the app unstable.
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3 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
Pros: Nice interface , many useful features , simple to use , rarely fails
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
"Very reliable and easy to use"
Pros: This is a very nice looking and easy to use e-mail program. I've been using Thunderbird for quite a while now and have not had any trouble. Extensions and themes are great!
Cons: I wish that it was a little faster.
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