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What's the word, Thunderbird
September 19, 2005
What's the word, Thunderbird. How’s it sold, free!
(For those of you not ummmmm ‘cultured’ enough to recognize the above as the jingle for the Thunderbird “wine� you can skip past this history link (bumwine.com) and right to the heart of this post)
For the past several weeks now we have been giving Mozilla's email client, called Thunderbird a try. And so far I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. Nothing is perfect, unless of course you're a Mac fan in which case everything Mac does is perfection personified, but this is a pretty nice program. I won't go into detail about all that it offers, as they do a pretty good job of that on their web site (Mozilla-Thunderbird). But I would like to blog briefly about why I like it and hopefully it will give you some insight into it, and whether or not you'd like to try it out. 
First and foremost I like the fact that it's not Microsoft. Now I am not a "hater", but rather someone who doesn't like having limited choices and always hearing about the latest security issue for my Microsoft program. This coupled with the fact that Thunderbird is opensource gives me a sense that this program will be smiled upon by the internet powers that be. Or at least not hacked as much as the Microsoft haters out there.
Secondly, I love all of the extensions that you can add onto the program. My personal favorite is the one called QuoteColors that allows you to view responses to your email in heirarchial view, coded by color and indentation. This makes it much easier to follow email conversations.
Last, but not least, I like how easy it is to learn and use. It was very easy to install and get running. It automatically imported my address book and all of my emails from my prior email client. Granted I had to re-sort them all, but it was a great excuse to clean house and get rid of all those buy.com coupons I never used.
Overall, I've been pleased with Thunderbird. It's not perfect, but it does what I want without a lot of fluff and fanfare. That's my bottom line. Keep it simple!
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