(based on 157 reviews)

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1

Rated 50/50 by Mach3motocross at Aug 10, 2010

Speed, reliability, functionality, and ease of use are what it's best at. Plus it has a lot of use full add-ons like Firefox. None that I can think of. If you find that going online to check your email can get annoying at times, or what a replacement for outlook, this Email client is for you. It's fast, free, and effective.

Rated 40/50 by udoyen at Aug 11, 2010

works well with multiple mail accounts will need a face lift and little fluidity of the outlook a great download any time

Rated 40/50 by ggeist at Aug 12, 2010

Generally happy with it Interface with myBlackberry is a problem, still looking for an add-on

Rated 10/50 by dangnad1 at Aug 13, 2010

There are no advantages to upgrading from Tb 2.0 to 3.0 This horrible new version disables ALL Tb2.0 extensions...I mean ALL. Since extensions ARE Thunderbird how would Mozilla think that an "upgrade" version than has no extensions is an improvement. It is not. The Mozilla "team" appears to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease. A low saturated fat diet is their only hope. BEWARE! Do NOT install any Tb3.0 version. Stay with 2.0. It serves all the purposes you would ever want in an email client.

Rated 10/50 by Aiiyiiyiii at Aug 13, 2010

Interface looked nice Thunderbird will not set up with a POP3 server. It defaults to IMAP and even trying to override with manual settings does not work. Useless for me. I wasted more than an hour on this. Tried numerous times, read the mozilla "knowledge base", read postings by others with same problem. However, I finally FOUND THE SOLUTION!Go to control panel.. uninstall programs.. select Mozilla Thunderbird.. and remove this junk from your system! Then go download a different email client, one that actually works. Unbelievable that they released this.

Rated 50/50 by DannySC4 at Aug 14, 2010

Uncluttered layout. i've had no significant problems with Thunderbird. Somewhat limited experience with Thunderbird but no problems with it.

Rated 40/50 by catranchergal at Aug 14, 2010

Easy to set up, dependable, fast Wish links were created automatically; I haven't found any built-in image editing or the ability to schedule or postpone delivery. If you're used to Outlook but were frustrated because it tended to be very slow and to "hose up", you'll likely be happy with Thunderbird -- the speed and smoother operation make up for the few features from Outlook that I miss.

Rated 10/50 by thesi001 at Aug 15, 2010

NOTHING!!!!!! EVERYTHING!!! Can't get T 3.1 account installed with this stupid "automated" function which doesn't work for 1 cm (at least not for me in Holland using Pop3). Auto function just skips and created some stupid assumptions. when switching to manual no settings are accepted, being told in the instruction I have to use. UNBELEAVABLE Thunderbird developers. How can you offer such a teriible complicated product to your users. And no, I am not a basic user but quite aware of setting up things. If you want to lower your percentage of users, then go on with this crap!

Rated 40/50 by anupamsahu at Aug 16, 2010

Easy to add multiple accounts. Fast and customizable. Cannot schedule mail sending. No support for rediffmail. Not exactly an outlook replacement but for somebody like me who needs to know when new mail arrives in all my mail accounts and reply to all from them thunderbird itself, its great! Needed webmail extension to add yahoo mail.

Rated 20/50 by woodybassmanturner at Aug 16, 2010

Looks great and receives mail from both sites I use It doesn't separate the individual email sites into their own files. Doesn't send email; it always times out before they're sent.

Rated 10/50 by mbok12 at Aug 21, 2010

I loved the earlier version, not this one. Loss of viewing area is huge. I want my earlier version back. There needs to be an "undo installation " feature. First, I have never liked not having a Properties tag in Thunderbird that would enable me to look at sender data before opening the email as OE does. But I learned to live w/o it. Second, this new version removes a substantial portion of the monitor to accommodate the new header in each email. All that information used to be in the program header and used little space whereas now I lose almost 1/3 of the monitor vertical viewing space to a header usage. That is just unacceptable. Back to OE for this family.

Rated 10/50 by fq39274 at Aug 22, 2010

message tool bar eats up the message screen...very annoying. horrible message window size forget it...stay with V2

Rated 10/50 by jimd121 at Aug 23, 2010

Did not try as an email reader. Do not make the mistake of thinking this can handle newsgroups! It does not. No yEnc decoder, no joining message parts, chokes on too many headers. It is slow and will crash even in Windows 7, which is hard to do. Don't know how it handles email, but as a newsreader, Thunderbird is a disaster. Poor user help, even worse instructions, and missing nearly every feature that makes a newsgroup reader valuable. Put this on your "To Be Avoided" list.

Rated 50/50 by markallen454 at Aug 24, 2010

I like the ease and speed of the Mozzila Thunder bird client email. I use this on occasion to bounce a message even through the yahoo email service indirectly as if the message where coming from some place else as in a fixed IP address It is all good nothing bad about this product.. I would recommend this email client even to the military for use in secure systems messaging. Or anybody else in the world in need of a secure channel to send and receive messages.Mark AllenZero Mass Computer Repair

Rated 40/50 by fatterrat at Aug 26, 2010

easy to use sometimes slow to respond

Rated 50/50 by zs6anz at Aug 26, 2010

Multi e-mails, better than Outlook. Give me a couple of weeks, I am sure I can think of something

Rated 40/50 by steen_cloud at Aug 29, 2010

FastEasy to useAdd-ons to increase or improve functionality and customizability Address Book and Writing a new message (and probably a few others) opens up in another window instead of a new tab.Nothing else aside from the above. Feels somewhat behind Firefox on misc features, though. Personally, I got this to save me the hassle of opening my email on a browser. Anyway, it does what it's suppose to do, and it does it fast and reliable enough. I haven't experienced any problems with it.