Thunderbird - An email and newsgroup client with powerful, new junk mail controls.
Updated by FastRunner on Thursday, March 19th 2009.
Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. 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 spell checker, extension support and much more.Thunderbird protects you from increasingly common email scams which try to fool you into handing over your passwords and other personal information. Thunderbird will tell you when it thinks a message might be a scam.
Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting.
Thunderbird has several problems: (Nov 2004):
1) Unstable crashes sometimes
2) Big and clumsy (like outlook) for example recreates a whole set of folders for each pop server!
3) "pollutes" the email folders with files which should be hidden (index files)
4) Does not allow editing the "subject" line, or delete attachments.
5) Cohabitates poorly with kmail. index files creates problems.
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Thunderbird has a nice user interface, but needs more work to be at par with its close parent: Firefox, which is very good.
I am sure it will come.
I would suggest that all Linux emailers can use the same Mailbox, if the user wishes to use more than one.
At this time I will stick with kmail which is more mature and "clean".
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