Sound interesting? Let's take a look at what Thunderbird can do.The first is to offer more than Microsoft’s Outlook, the default choice for businesses that need to manage their email communications.

Mailbox conversion tools for Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora,.

Global mailbox for unifying multiple accounts.

Support for popular news protocols: NNTP and RSS.

Support for popular e-mail protocols: POP and IMAP.

Cross-platform: Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a 'fully loaded' e-mail client and comes with a large array of features We tested Thunderbird on Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X 10.3.6, and Linux (CentOS 3.3, a RedHat Enterprise Linux workalike), and the interface is remarkably consistent across all three platforms.

Screenshots from different operating systems Despite the separation, Firefox and Thunderbird still work together, but allow the developers of each group to have their own milestones and target dates. This separation has also allowed both groups to clean up and tighten the code in the individual code trees. By diverging Firefox and Thunderbird from the monolithic Mozilla code, both 'trees' could be developed (and bug fixed) at a more rapid pace than before. So where did Thunderbird come from? Just like Firefox, Thunderbird is actually a fork in the original Mozilla codebase. Like Mozilla Firefox, which has been steadily gaining more press and acceptance as a better web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird is shaping up to be a better mail client.

Most of you have used either Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, Mail.app, or one of many e-mail clients. System requirements: Windows98 or later, Linux kernel 2.2.14+, Mac OS 10.1.x or later What is Mozilla Thunderbird? (US$5.95 for a CD-ROM) Source code also available.

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