What is Thunderbird?
Thunderbird is the mail client recommended by riseup.net. It is Free Software and is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. You can download Thunderbird from the
thunderbird website. As Free Software, Thunderbird is part of the digital commons, a kind of common treasury for all. Outlook, on the other hand, is Microsoft's tool for world domination.
Thunderbird has many features, including: IMAP and POP support, multiple accounts, quick search, spell as you type, advanced spam controls, RSS, virtual folder views, message filtering, addressbook, and support for GPG encryption.
Thunderbird Tutorials
Before you configure Thunderbird, you need to
decide if you will be using IMAP or POP.
Thunderbird Extensions
We suggest these extensions for Thunderbird:
- Enigmail: This extention allows you to easily use PGP or GPG to encrypt your mail Download Enigmail.
- Display Quota: This extension will display the current status of your IMAP quota in thunderbird's statusbar and will warn you when you reach a configurable limit. Download Display Quota.