A Great Alternative

The new version of this excellent e-mail client carries several innovations. Among them, can be cited message markers (similar to what exists in Gmail) and the possibility to browse through the message history accessed through the “Back” and “Next” buttons on the toolbar, as in a browser.

There is a search tool that will allow you to find emails by just typing a few words and choosing how they should be fetched: recipients, subject, body text or everything. For those who need to perform the same searches regularly, Thunderbird saves them all to be accessed quickly in the future.

Whenever you receive a new message, the program sends a short notice that appears in the corner of the screen informing about the sender, subject and the beginning of the text.

Another interesting feature is its ability to create message templates, ideal for those who need to send the same email several times.

No More Spam

With improved anti-spam tools, Mozilla Thunderbird has everything to send you away from those pesky advertising messages. Besides possessing own mechanisms, the e-mail client can also be used with spam filter of your provider, sending all these unwanted messages to a specific folder.

More Protection

According to developers, in this new version Thunderbird is even safer, with improvements to anti-phishing that will alert you whenever an attempted coup is identified, including advising you of the existence of links that will lead you to destinations other than those indicated in the message.

Keeps Getting Better

Already in version 3.0, a series of new tools had been deployed in Thunderbird. Now these features get more speed and serious issues are now fixed.

Tabs

Similar to Mozilla Firefox browser, Thunderbird also earns tabs by double-clicking or by pressing “enter” on a message will open in another tab.

When you click on the messages, they will open in background tabs. Another innovation is the maintenance of tabs, which are saved and reopened if the program is closed unexpectedly.

Internal Searches

A resource that was very common in recent years is the ability to perform searches for messages stored in your e-mail account from the main interface. E-mail clients followed the same path, but until recently there were no satisfactory results. Now with the update, Thunderbird is the right place and makes the internal search much faster.

Automatic Configuration

If you have no idea what a (or how to configure a) POP3 or SMTP server, the Mozilla Thunderbird becomes perfect so that you can use an e-mail client with any complicated configurations.

Most Dynamic Filters

Another novelty of Mozilla Thunderbird is the presence of new and more dynamic search filters. When you perform a search for messages, you can filter your search by sender, recipient, subject or even by the text of the message. You can also order them by subject, sender and sent date.

New Message Toolbar

The toolbar has been redesigned and now includes reply, forward, archive, junk and delete buttons. It can also be customized to better fit to different user profiles manager.

Add-ons Manager

Through the Add-ons Manager, integrated with Thunderbird, you can find and download add-ons to the software. These add-ons include Extensions, Themes and Plug-ins, everything to let Thunderbird even more personalized.

Contact List

The contacts that are already on the list are marked with stars and can be edited at any time. When a message is received from unknown sender, you can add them to list in a quick and simple way. The new version of Thunderbird brings even the new Birthdays calendar and allows adding photos to users.

Author: Rana Imran Yousuf

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