{"id":344,"date":"2004-12-09T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:04:00","slug":"thunderbird-10-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/12\/09\/thunderbird-10-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird 1.0 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Get<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s face it folks, Thunderbird <\/a>is KING. Myself, my dad, all the people at my office, and a friend of a friend (who happens to own, of all things, a strip club in Boston) all use Thunderbird <\/a>for their email. It is hands-down the best email client you can get (for free<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Thunderbird <\/a>is, at its heart, a mail reader – plain and simple. And it does that one thing VERY <\/span>well. It is the only free email reader I know of with Bayesian spam (junk mail) filtering built in (Eudora has similar filtering, but you have to buy Eudora to get the spam filtering). It also is a really, really good RSS reader, which I like because I have a few feeds I read here at work, and having them in my email program (which is open all day long anyway) is very handy.<\/p>\n

Other great things about Thunderbird <\/a>include the fact that you don’t have to worry about all the security exploits that affect email clients such as Outlook and Outlook Express. Thunderbird <\/a>will also block images that are included in an email, if the images come from a 3rd party server (website). This is good because such images can often be pornographic or carry viruses. Of course, a single click restores the images, in case the email is from someone you trust.<\/p>\n

One area that Thunderbird <\/a>fails in is filters – you can set up some nice filters in Thunderbird<\/a>, as you could with Mozilla Mail “back in the day.” However, the actions that you can have Thunderbird <\/a>take when filtering mail are basically limited to moving the mail to a different folder, marking it with a particular status (read, unread, etc) or just deleting it. As a former user of Eudora, I was painfully aware of the much more powerful filters available in Eudora – you could have the email redirected, forwarded, or even have Eudora reply to the email<\/span> with a template email you had set up. Some of these features are no doubt coming to Thunderbird <\/a>soon, however… the nice thing about Open Source Software like this is that when people want some feature – it tends to get put in! Also, extensions in Thunderbird <\/a>allow people to add odd features to the program – and that’s a “Good Thing.”<\/p>\n

All in all, you can’t go wrong with Thunderbird<\/a>. The only thing it can’t do is integrate with a Microsoft Exchange server – but businesses that have an Exchange server probably have a legitimate need for it’s capabilities, and the capabilities of Outlook (although I would recommend to anyone that even having to use an Open Source version of Exchange server and two or three different programs to emulate all of the features of Outlook – i.e. calendaring, notes, shared contacts, scheduling, internal email – is better than using Outlook; at least IMHO it is).<\/p>\n

Still, if you’re a home user, you’re not going to be worried about Exchange server – so do yourself a favor and get Thunderbird now<\/a><\/span>… and “reclaim your inbox.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s face it folks, Thunderbird is KING. 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