Top Tools: Thunderbird

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Thunderbird is the free email client from Mozilla (the home of Firefox).  Thunderbird 2 makes it even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.

Comments from those who selected Thunderbird as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

• “Mozilla free e-mail program – light and easy to use, manages all my email accounts” Debora Gallo
• “Mozilla’s open source email application helps me share ideas with friends and colleagues” Guy Boulet
• “Email may be dead, but my email client continues to be a place of constant activity. Most of our corporate communications come by email, as do the various mailings lists I subscribe to, comments and enquiries from people around the world, and more. Email remains my primary communications tool precisely because it is asynchronous – I prefer to send and receive messages on my own schedule.” Stephen Downes
• “A solid e-mail program that I’ve never had any problems with. Like Firefox, it has a ton of great add-ons.” Adam Kosh

Comments from those who selected Thunderbird as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

• “Email may be dead, but my email client continues to be a place of constant activity. Most of our corporate communications come by email, as do the various mailings lists I subscribe to, comments and enquiries from people around the world, and more. Email remains my primary communications tool precisely because it is asynchronous – I prefer to send and receive messages on my own schedule.” Stephen Downes
• “Open Source browser and e-mail client from Mozilla – both with a growing range of add-ons” Seb Schmoller
• “This is a simple e-mail client that focuses on e-mail, though you can use it as a desktop RSS feed reader as well. Virtually virus-free and easy on memory. Like FireFox you can easily change the look.” Harold Jarche
• “I have 8 different email accounts and Thunderbird makes it easy to manage them all.” Guy Boulet
• “for ease of use – does what it says on the tin” Lisa Valentine
• “it’s very stable and have lots of useful modules and plugins” Paulo Gingao
• “My mail reader. Here is where I read several mail accounts I use. I also have some webmails (Squirrel Mail, Gmail, Yahoo…) but this is the most powerful and fastest tool for me to use my official mail addresses.” David Delgado