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Mozilla Thunderbird
Developer	Mozilla Corporation
Latest release	3.0.4
Programming language(s)	C++
OS	Cross-platform
Natural language(s)	Multilingual
Genre	E-mail and news client
License	MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website	www.mozilla.com/thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release (and 1,000,000 in 10 days). As of 2008, Thunderbird has been downloaded more than 60 million times since 1.0 release.

Features

Thunderbird aims to be a simple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client. The vanilla version is not a personal information manager, although, with the Mozilla Lightning extension, a big part of a PIM functionality is added. Additional features, if needed, are often available via other extensions.

Message management

Thunderbird can manage multiple e-mail, newsgroup and RSS accounts and supports multiple identities within accounts. Features like quick search, saved search folders ("virtual folders"), advanced message filtering, message grouping, and labels can help manage and find messages. On Linux-based systems, system mail (movemail) accounts are supported.

Junk filtering

Thunderbird incorporates a Bayesian spam filter, a whitelist based on the included address book, and can also understand classifications by server-based filters such as SpamAssassin

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