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What is Thunderbird?

Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize - and it's loaded with great features!

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Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize - and it's loaded with great features!


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Mozilla
Year Founded
2005
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San Francisco, CA
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273,534 Twitter followers
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1,795 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

At Mozilla, they are a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to keep the Internet alive and accessible, so people worldwide can be informed contributors and creators of the Web.

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Elizabeth E.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Synchronize personal and corporate email"
Synchronize different corporate and educational domain emails, relationship and consultation with shared server and calendar for tasks to do. New ...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Great free email program"
It's free for most uses. It costs money when I want to incorporate exchange 365 through a plug-in, but it works.
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PollyAnna S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Free and Easy to Use"
Thunderbird is free to its users. They appreciate donations. It's simple to use. Easy to put on your computer. I use it every day.
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EE
Mechanical Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

Synchronize different corporate and educational domain emails, relationship and consultation with shared server and calendar for tasks to do.

New versions with new addon functions and Android application.

Compatible with Windows and native Linux.

Mozilla line to improve free software.

Fast and secure installation.

Automatic search for server with email address. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

Works perfectly for all my needs, but the function to create user does not exist yet to synchronize email on different computers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sync my company and personal email, schedule lists with calendar and translator addons with other features.

Improve integration and fluidity on my PC, better than MS Office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

Thunderbird is free to its users. They appreciate donations. It's simple to use. Easy to put on your computer. I use it every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

Thunderbird doesn't have a special support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

They are consistently releasing updates to make Thunderbird work better. Thunderbird is our main form of communication to our clients and vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kavita R.
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Senior Executive Human Resources
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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

I like the easy user interface of thunderbird with few clicks. Upside of this tool is we can edit the screenshots and make more alluring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

I have not came across anything to dislike yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have a large flux of emails everyday and it becomes diffuclt to manage is other mailboxes. Since, I conduct interviews and do documentaion it requires a focus which thunderbird helps me do that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

It's free for most uses. It costs money when I want to incorporate exchange 365 through a plug-in, but it works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

It can be slow at times. Not always the friendliest in use, but it's manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

Email program, including a calendar for all my primary email addresses. All in one spot and works as intended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

I like that the program is easy to navigate. I use it for my work email and it keeps me on track Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

I don't really have anything that I would criticize. Updates have to happen and when they do, it takes me a minute to figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thunderbird allows me to search for documents that I thought I previously lost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason H.
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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

The rules engine and its options that also supports IMAP - something the New Outlook for Windows no longer supports. The multiple view options for navigation folders makes categorising emails simple. The tags view is gold, especially when you have multiple email accounts and you have to remember to action several emails in the future, like paying that bill due in 3 weeks but you dont want that email left in the dreaded inbox of dispair. Their compact view for the nav folders is also fantastic.

Microsoft have moved to a simpler, less flexible Outlook product, however Mozilla seem to have kept the customisations, but they are way easier to navigate and implement than the old Outlook ever was. Bravo Mozilla! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

Maybe a tad resource hungry, but not a deal breaker. There's not too much to dislike about v115. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automated mail rules for IMAP, and consolidating several email accounts into a simple, easy to navigate UI that shows you the important stuff several ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

I like that all of my email, calendars, and contacts are local. I can take my laptop without an internet connection and process and respond to email. Thunderbird also has a mass email addon that is terrific. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

The search feature is not that great. So when I need to find a specific email from a while ago I switch over to the web (gmail) to do that search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

I manage a number of email accounts for my company. It is easy to monitor each of those accounts in Thunderbird. In the background the client is downloading messages. Seeing all of the accounts at a glance and how many unread emails there are in each account helps me to know which teams I need to check with. I can also go into the messages of each account quickly because they are all stored locally. This makes it so I'm not waiting on web pages to load or trying to change the email account I'm working with. This is where Thunderbird shines is working with multiple accounts.

I also use Thunderbird as a Calendar Client and Contacts manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

I have more than 5 email accounts business and personal. Thunderbird helps me to manage multiple email accounts.

I actively use filters to delete junk, ads and to sort and move messages between folders and use filters to highlight important messages automatically.

I also like to use quick search to find old email messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

I don't like recent user interfaces changes. It looks the quick search now is a bit laggish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps to manage multiple email accounts, sort and highlight messages using custom filters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nabin S.
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Operational Specialist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

The best thing I like about Thunderbird is that, we can easily manage and sent emails in it instantly. It is very easy to read and sent the mails in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

From last 1 year of usage i don't found a single thing to dislike in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving various issues that we are facing in our old email platform such as sending different emails in different tabs at once and checking all the mails in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wolf H.
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What do you like best about Thunderbird?

It was always the same experience whether I was setting up 10 accounts or 1. I recommend Thunderbird where the client hasn't already chosen some other option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Thunderbird?

Too many have chosen other clients before I could pitch Thunderbird Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Thunderbird solving and how is that benefiting you?

Adding lots of accounts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.