Mozilla Thunderbird
Thunderbird delivers safe, fast, and easy emails, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views.
What I like:
*It's open source and free, is built by a community.
*Themes - allow you to change the look and feel of the user interface and personalize it to your tastes.
*Extensions - add on extra features without using shell hooks.
*Junk Mail filtering - Thunderbird uses Bayesian filtering which is one of the best forms.
*Cross platform - It runs natively on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
*Automatic folder compression - those DBX files can get awfully big, even if you delete all your mail. Thunderbird can compress them automatically, rather than waiting for you to do it yourself.
*On-screen alerts - You can have it pop up a message near the system tray when mail arrives.
What I did not like:
*Does not have an integrated calendar.
*Missing important rules - some very crucial ones, such as "Stop processing more rules" (very important) and "Display new email window".
*Flaky IMAP support - Thunderbird uses threading more efficiently and pretty much never locks up while retrieving IMAP folders. However, things get really strange when folders are created behind its back. Or deleted.
Summary:
Thunderbird takes the familiar look of Outlook Express and streamlines it, adding important, useful features without cutting back on anything. There's not a giant leap between this and Outlook Express.
Helpero rating 9/10
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