[pchelpers] Article:Mozilla Thunderbird review

From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: PC-Helpers <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:46:36 +1200
Checking your e-mail can be a burden if you don’t have a good e-mail 
client that can manage your messages effectively.

I’m going to cover in this review Mozilla Thunderbird, a small email 
client that has great potential.

Installing the program is easy and is done quickly; right after the 
process is completed you will be prompted to import the settings from 
Outlook

The interface is similar to Outlook’s, which is to be expected, since 
their job is the same in many aspects. But Thunderbird has its own 
personality, and the design as well as the functionality has an extra touch.

What does one look for specifically when searching for a good e-mail 
client? Well, for starters if an application claims the throne in this 
category, it MUST have good privacy protection.

By default, Thunderbird is set to block remote images and other content 
in messages that you receive from people you don't know. Since spammers 
use remote content to detect when and if you've viewed a message from 
them, and thus to verify your e-mail address, this feature will 
instantly take care of this problem. You don’t have to worry for the 
pictures that you lose when someone that’s not in your address book send 
them to you, because after the verification is done, you’re free to view 
them (they’re not deleted, they’re just blocked, an operation you can 
undo by simply selecting “Show images”)

Should you receive an e-mail that contains remote images, an alert that 
informs you of the blocked items will be displayed, so that you can look 
into the problem and see whether the sender is safe or not.

If this blocking service bothers you, simply disable it and you’ll be 
free to view the remote pictures from all the senders.

Using it, though, does not take care of the SPAM crisis that seems to 
get bigger and bigger; but worry not, because the junk mail filter that 
Mozilla Thunderbird offers will mark all suspect messages as spam, so 
that you won’t be bothered. Also, if your provider provides spam 
filters, the program will use them as well, thus increasing your security.
If an e-mail gets by the junk mail filter you can simply mark it as 
spam, and the program will take this as a lesson and remember it the 
next time an e-mail from the same server will try to bother you. The 
more you use the program, the smarter it gets in annihilating suspicious 
messages.
More here:
http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Mozilla-Thunderbird-Review-25376.shtml
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