Thunderbird 1.0 has arrived and is free :)

[Triforceofcourage]

Thunderbird 1.0 has arrived and is free 🙂

 

[IronOxide]

link?

 

[maydaytx]

Reclaim your inbox!

 

[soflawill]

if it works as well as firefox, will be another winner fro mozilla

 

[MisterJackson]

Stupid question (I've never used this before).

Can this be used with my gmail account, hotmail account, and yahoo account???

 

[kamranziadar]

I never used it before, but i will stick with my Yahoo account.

 

[middlehead]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Stupid question (I've never used this before).

Can this be used with my gmail account, hotmail account, and yahoo account???

Gmail allows free POP access now (go into settings and click the "Forwarding and POP" tab).
Hotmail and Yahoo still want you to pay, but there are third-party apps that can sneak around their protections and pull messages into whatever client you want.

 

[Akira13]

Thanks for the reminder.

Server is slow (reminds me of my 28.8 days).

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Stupid question (I've never used this before).

Can this be used with my gmail account, hotmail account, and yahoo account???

Google YahooPops, it allows you to check Yahoo! mail like a POP account, and it is free.

 

[jonnybruno]

I tried it but prefer outlook just so i can check hotmail easily. much less hassle

 

[forumJunkie]

google + mozilla.... I'm in love

 

[Bicho]

I use Firefox for a few months and used thunderbird beta for about a month and it sux. Very few features, has trouble reading certain formats, i'm sticking with office 2003

 

[Carazariah]

Originally posted by: Bicho
I use Firefox for a few months and used thunderbird beta for about a month and it sux. Very few features, has trouble reading certain formats, i'm sticking with office 2003

Thunderbird isn't designed to compete against Office 2003: It's designed to compete against Outlook Express: And comparing the 2 I think it stacks up very well. We've used the beta versions for more than a year for a corporate application where Outlook Express and MS security holes made Thunderbird the best choice:

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[slpaulson]

I've been using Thunderbird for at least a year now, and it's so much better than Outlook, at least for my needs.

 

[trikster2]

thunderbird is the first email client that succesfully replaced outlook express for me.

However I find myself using gmail more and more these days......

 

[Pliablemoose]

Been using 0.9 for ~2 weeks now, gotta say for free it's not bad at all...

 

[rdytorave]

Bleh I've got two hotmail accounts that I use heavily. Too bad MS wants people to pay for POP.

 

[Kaido]

I switched my mom over to Thunderbird from Outlook Express a few weeks ago, she likes it. The junk mail filter is REALLY good.

Use this to do backups with.

 

[330Pilot]

Thunderbird >> Outlook Express >> Outlook

 

[markgm]

I've never used an Outlook product outside of work. Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird has always been the way to go 🙂.

 

[EvanB]

If only you could get an Exchange acoount to work with it 🙁

 

[Scarpozzi]

I've been using Thunderbird for a long time. It's sooo smooth. Funny thing is that I won't switch to our exchange server because I like its simplicity so much...

 

[RudeBoie]

Originally posted by: 330Pilot
Thunderbird >> Outlook Express >> Outlook

Express is definitely better than Outlook to me.

I did try Thunderbird a few months ago and it was better than Outlook, but I still had some trouble with it.

I may try it again soon.

 

[ww4397]

What makes Thunderbird better than OE? Does it have features that OE doesn't?

Thanks.

 

[Slikkster]

With 4 Hotmail accounts, I have no choice but to stick with OE. "Hotmail Popper" is not freeware; it's time-limited shareware, and MS has decided that POP access is going to cost ya, anyway.