{"id":57,"date":"2003-09-22T17:28:28","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2003-09-22T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T15:28:28","slug":"mozilla-thunderbird-free-open-source-email-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/mozilla-thunderbird-free-open-source-email-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Thunderbird &#8211; free, open source email client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve downloaded and begun using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/thunderbird\/\">Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a> today.  Continue reading to find out what I think of it . . .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been years since I used Microsoft Outlook Express, if I ever did use it.  I have often described this software product as a <b>highly efficient virus delivery system which can also send and receive emails<\/b>.<br \/>\nOver the years I&#8217;ve tried the whole lot of alternatives &#8212; Pegasus, PocoMail, Eudora, Netscape\/Mozilla Mail, Opera Mail, etc., etc.  On my Linux desktop I have consistently used Ximian Evolution.<br \/>\nI have been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eudora.com\">Eudora 5.2<\/a> on my Windows XP laptop and decided to give Thunderbird a chance.  I have to say that I am very pleased.  Here&#8217;s what I like about it, compared to Eudora:<br \/>\n1. It&#8217;s <b>open source<\/b>, free of charge, built by a community and not a corporation.<br \/>\n2. There are <b>no ads<\/b>.  (I could pay Eudora not to show ads, but Thunderbird comes ads-free in its free version.)<br \/>\n3. It seems to load messages <b>faster<\/b> in the preview window.<br \/>\n4. It <b>imported<\/b> both my Eudora address book and all my messages without a problem.<br \/>\n5. It appears to have powerful <b>anti-spam<\/b> measures built in, but I don&#8217;t use them.  I have my spam destroyed at server level &#8212; actually, twice.  Spam is crushed by my basic email provider, and it is crushed again by emailfiltering.co.uk, which I have purchased.<br \/>\n6. It seems to have <b>encryption<\/b> built in, which could be convenient.  I use PGP, but no one else seems to.  Nevertheless, I do think that eventually everyone will use something like this, so good to see this built into the email client.<br \/>\nOther than that, not much to say &#8212; it seems to do everything that Eudora does.<br \/>\nSo why switch?<br \/>\nWell, it is open source and that&#8217;s a good thing.  And keep in mind <b>that this only version 0.2<\/b> &#8212; Eudora is already on version 6.0.  <b>If this is what Thunderbird looks like now, what will it be able to do when they get around to version 1.0?<\/b><br \/>\nIf any of you are already using Thunderbird and can tell me how I use the templates to reply to messages (not filtered, but manually), I&#8217;d be delighted.  The Help part of this project could use a little, well, help. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve downloaded and begun using Mozilla Thunderbird today. Continue reading to find out what I think of it . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}