However you can change that layout somewhat. If you tend to like the Outlook-like three-pane view of your e-mail universe with your inbox and various folders on the left, the list of messages to the upper right in a large window, and a preview pane that gives the first few lines of a selected message, then you'll appreciate Thunderbird's look and feel from the outset. I've installed Thunderbird on four machines, two running Windows, and two running Mac OS X. And as with Firefox, it has been developed to run not only on Windows but also on the Mac, Linux, and on , the same group that produces the Firefox Web browser I've previously praised (see: " Better Browser Now The Best").Īs yet, Thunderbird is still in development, having reached only version 0.8. Then I ran across Thunderbird, an open-source e-mail program from As for my Windows machines, I wasn't finding any e-mail clients, other than Outlook Express and Eudora, that have grabbed my attention. I also gave Apple's Mail a good try and found it to be a little too inflexible in how it handles messages, and it simply isn't open to the many geeky configuration settings I'm used to having on Eudora. On the Mac, at the suggestion of a few friends, I've tried MailSmith fromĪnd found it intriguing, but ultimately lacking in the ability to deal with large archives of mail. (I spend more than enough time struggling with Outlook at the office to bother with Outlook Express or its Mac-based companion Entourage to seriously consider using it at home.) Recently, I've been looking at other e-mail programs, both on the Mac and on Windows, that aren't made by Microsoft. It has added such odd things as a warning symbol that detects when it notices dirty words in the e-mail. Its features-notably filtering messages based on rules, and catching spam-haven't improved in ways that are useful to many e-mail power users. I've used it on both the Mac and Windows platforms over the past decade and generally found it to be the most full-featured e-mail client out there.īut in the past few years, Eudora is starting to look a little old. I first used it in 1993 only a few years after it was first developed at the University of Illinois (notably the home of the first major Web browser).
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