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.
- Website: Thunderbird
- Cost: Free
- Available: Download
- Platform: Windows, Mac OS and Linux
- Top 100 Tools 2010: -
- Top 100 Tools 2009: -
- Top 100 Tools 2008: 50=
- Top 100 Tools 2007: 22=
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
