TechTip: Mozilla Thunderbird Email program

I have never been a fan of MS Outlook Express. Years ago I used Pegasus (and liked it) and then moved to Eudora (liked it even better). In February 2004 I tried version 0.4 of Thunderbird and was impressed that something not ready for primetime was so good. Been using it every since and (drum roll please) version 1.0 was recently released. This means it is officially ready for the masses. One big feature Tbird has going for it is the open source license. I highly recommend the product (even though I prefer the way Eudora stores your email – very nice for making / using backups. . .you do backup your email don't you?)


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How good is Tbird? Over 1 million downloads in the first 10 days. Of course some of these people might be confusing it with the adult beverage by the same name.

Get high, everybody, get high.
Get high, everybody, get high.
Have you heard? What's the word?
It's Thunderbird.
- from the song "Thunderbird" performed by ZZ Top words by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill & Frank Beard(c) 1973