Mozilla Thunderbird

5.0 stars

"Blows Apple Mail away, at least as a gmail client"

January 25, 2014  |   By berksguy2010

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 24.2.0

Pros

Fast, effective gmail client. Free and open source.

Cons

No cons. It's free. It's free.

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3.0 stars

"Good, but not fully replacing Eudora."

February 17, 2013  |   By Fusco_D

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.2

Pros

easy to install. works fast.

Cons

I'm missing several interesting features of Eudora, still my favorite email client:
- redirecting (extremely useful)
- on server & delete from server
- multiple signatures (add-on doesn't work well)
- very important to me: Thunderbird doesn't allow changing an incoming message (e.g. removing unneeded space, correcting typos)
Moving a message out of in-box should delete it on server: doesn't always work.

Summary

Didn'd find anything better yet to replace good old Eudora Mail

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1.0 stars

""Mac OS X 10.5 is no longer supported""

November 24, 2012  |   By f5mando

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0

Pros

Zero 'pros' for anyone with Mac OS X 10.5, obviously.

Cons

"Mac OS X 10.5 is no longer supported"

Summary

Nice abandonment move, Mr Mozilla. Thanks very little for keeping us out of the loop.

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2.0 stars

"Sorry, Mozilla - You lost control of the code.."

November 16, 2012  |   By khflottorp

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 16.0.2

Pros

It works fine with MacOS 10.6.8 - Snow Leopard, those who cannot install it has a problem with their config.
IMAP - e.g. to Gmail works fine.
POP/POP3 to ISP works fine
Lots of Add-ons, including stationary, "Quicktext" that allows fast insertion of standard phrases, variables - such as "Date", "Sender" - had it all worked it would be excellent.
Version 16 supports chat, and replace iChat, Lightening, the calendar software is good.
Version 17 - tested a beta version, is bigger and slower.

Cons

It contains numerous bugs, some are related to the interface to the indexing file system, most to silly large meta-database in iSQL with multiple definition of the same things - such as a Deleted message can be read/unread - and a read message, can that also be :new" - makes me wonder if anyone is in charge of design.
The result is an email client that introduce inconsistencies to the extent that it looses data - messages are lost, entire folder of messages gets lost. File a bug report, and you get a confused developer that doubts your issue, and claims "this has been solved in the next release" - and then add on more functionality.

Summary

If you need an email client with tons of functionality, numerous chat protocols, gimmicks, bells and whistles, this is perfect. But a code that used to be good, stable and reliable is moving out of control.

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1.0 stars

"Doesn't matter > still does not work on 10.6.8"

July 20, 2012  |   By Badatt

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0.2

Pros

Have used Thunderbird for over a year, but now ???

Cons

Dropped Outlook for Thunderbird. After upgrading yesterday to 14.0 > Now back to Outlook. Come on gentlemen - VERY UNSTABLE, would suggest NOT to D/L this until all bugs are fixed. Run mouse over messages and they disappear - Kind of feel like a magician. When I say disappear, I don't mean not available, you just can't see the subject on the top 2 or 3 messages. Then God forbid you page down, it is all screwed up!!! System OS X Leopard Version 10.6.8

Summary

Suggest waiting until bugs are fixed!

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4.0 stars

"Does what it should!"

January 31, 2012  |   By alexndrw

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0.1

Pros

Works fine on all email accounts I need to access. Sharing Calendar extension a major plus.

Cons

Still crashes now and again. Synchronising Tasks should be enabled.
Otherwise it'd be a 5 star rating

Summary

Excellent tool to download, organise and Search your emails.
Set-up not for newbies or those too lazy to read instructions!

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1.0 stars

"under Mac OS 10.7 it's become a pain"

October 7, 2011  |   By supernovi

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0.1

Pros

Independent from all Apple OS data gathering

Cons

Server time out, slow, chrashes - there must be better software out there.

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1.0 stars

"BEFORE YOU PUSH AN UPDATE, SEE WHAT VERSION OF OSX!"

September 23, 2011  |   By yfnimgcg

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0.2

Pros

None because it won't open in OSX 10.4.11

Cons

Thunderbird message said there's an update available. Presuming they know what they're doing, I took it. Now Thunderbird won't open because I'm on OSX 10.4.11. Come one guys even Microsoft checks the O/S version before they do an install / update!

Summary

Do NOT download this if you're on OSX 10.4.11 or earlier! If you do, go back to their site and choose Other Languages, find English US, and re-install 3.1.14. Geez!

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1.0 stars

"6.0 SUCKS wait till bugs are fixes"

September 5, 2011  |   By soulmates123

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0

Pros

None None None

Cons

Only allows me to access 3 of the 7 email accounts I have in thunderbird.

Summary

Down grade to the older version until they fix the bugs.

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2.0 stars

"Crashes a lot and slow"

August 25, 2011  |   By Dr-Greg

Version: Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0

Pros

It's Thunderbird... sort of.

Cons

Crashes
Gets slow over time

Summary

I've loved Thunderbird for Mac for a long time but with this new 6.0 release, it's pretty bad. On the surface it looks like the same old Thunderbird with all my layouts and settings retained... but when you actually start to USE it and receive voicemail mp3 attachments and switch back and forth between folders containing a lot of messages, etc. the stability and speed I come to rely on just isn't there with this new version. The previous version was very fast and almost NEVER crashed on me but so far this one has only been out for a couple weeks and I've had it crash at least 3 times. Unacceptable.

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