Full-featured email, RSS and newsgroup client that makes emailing safer, faster and easier.
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive email experience. We designed Thunderbird to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Read on to find out more about the reasons why you should use Thunderbird as your mail client and RSS reader.
“This surprisingly full-featured open-source program is a snap to use...”
- PC World
“[Thunderbird] is better than Outlook...it has all the features that matter.”
- IT-Director.com
Smartest Way to Stop Junk 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.
Your Mail, Your Way
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 e-mail.
Safe and Secure
Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features such as S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices.
Packed with Features
Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.
Unlimited Features
Thunderbird lets you add additional features as you need them through extensions. Extensions are a powerful tool to help you build a mail client that meets your specific needs.
Generally, with the release of 1.5, the stability of the program has been improved immensely, coupled with better search capabilities compared to the 1.0.x Aviary branch releases. Attachments can now be deleted from emails while support for podcasting, Google Maps and improved spam filtering have been added. Additionally, there is a built-in phishing detector and the program now auto-saves drafts, so in case the program or OS crashes, the draft will not be lost. Spell checking while typing is now possible, and software update improvements have been implemented similar to that of Firefox 1.5.
What's New in Thunderbird
MFSA 2007-15 Security Vulnerability in APOP Authentication
MFSA 2007-12 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.12/1.8.1.4)
