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    Thunderbird

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThunderbird is an open-source email management application from MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Mozilla.N/A
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    Thunderbird
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    Thunderbird
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Thunderbird
    Considered Both Products
    Mozilla
    Chose Thunderbird
    Thunderbird is quite similar to Gmail, in many aspects, especially graphically. Both do the same job in a good way. I can tell that we use Thunderbird for years already, and in general we are pretty satisfied, so there is no reason to change software to try or evaluate …
    Incentivized
    Chose Thunderbird
    We choose Thunderbird since it proved to be sufficient for our needs and is freeware. The choice was also influenced by a contact who is a certified cybercrime investigator
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Thunderbird
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Thunderbird
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Mozilla
    I like that it's free, I like that it's open-source, and the fact that it allows IMAP lets me have this on all 3 laptops and it's synced. I would never consider using it as my primary email client, however; just too clunky and can't navigate around fast enough the way I do with Gmail. And not even close to having all the features I'd need that Gmail does: 30 second undo-sending, canned responses, easy-to-create signatures for each email address (I literally toggle over to Gmail, compose a message, and paste my sig into the body of Thunderbird emails, so clunky), all spam ends up in my inbox even after I've marked enough as spam that it should know, email labeling and filtering... Gmail is just way more advanced and feature-ful. But, Thunderbird does beat my ridiculous RoundCube webmail interface!
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    Pros
    Mozilla
    • Email receiving
    • Email sending
    • Email composition
    • Ability to add calendar and task plugins
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    Cons
    Mozilla
    • definitely needs a mobile /andriod version
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    Usability
    Mozilla
    Thunderbird is a software very simple to use, but efficient in every aspect. We don't have a specific need, apart to manage email in both directions, and Thunderbird does it's job in the best way. I would like to see a more friendly interface, with some colours more, to help the sight in the email searching. When we have many of them, sometimes it's difficult to find the one that we need.
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    Mozilla
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    Return on Investment
    Mozilla
    • Its FREE and donation based. Can't get better than that.
    • I love that we aren't giving away our privacy to Google.
    • And I especially love that it's a grass-rootsy endeavor.
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