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“...the beauty of the open source Thunderbird email client is its extensibility. Sure we love our web-based email like Gmail, but Thunderbird is the ultimate open source desktop email app. Its pluggable interface lets developers freely build extensions to make it ever more useful. And ever more useful do a few key extensions make it." Gina Trapani, Lifehacker, Feb. 7, 2007

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Pros & Cons

Pros:
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Free open-source software
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Custom junk mail filters
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Automated Update
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multiple mailbox support
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Extensions and Themes
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Phishing Protection
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Saved Searches
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Very quick installation; can be used from portable media e.g. USB stick
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Message Tagging
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With proper plugin, can be used for a lot of web mail accounts (hotmail, yahoo, gmail)
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tried & tested interface, easy message filtering & organisation
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excellent newsgroup reader
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Cons:
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Extensions must be downloaded and installed manually.
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Windows

Operating Systems
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows NT 4.0
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP (Recommended)
  • Windows Vista

Minimum Hardware
  • Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space

Linux

Software Requirements
Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
  • Linux kernel - 2.2.14 with the following libraries or packages minimums:
    • glibc 2.3.2
    • gtk+2.0
    • XFree86-3.3.6
    • fontconfig (also known as xft)
    • libstdc++5
  • Thunderbird has been tested on Linux Fedora Core 4

Minimum Hardware
  • Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space

Mac

Operating Systems
  • Mac OS X 10.2.x and later

Minimum Hardware
  • Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
  • 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
  • 200 MB hard drive space

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