Mark's Blog

For many years I have really been looking for a great email program. Outlook is bloated, buggy, a security hazard and offers little additional functionality in a home setting. Outlook express and later windows live mail were ugly lacked features and their IMAP support has always left something to be desired. Earlier versions of Thunderbird were similarly uninspired and ugly. There is of course the bat but I really don’t want to pay for it as I don’t think its that good.

Finally though I have to admit I have found an email program I love and its the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird. Its fast, light and has all the features I would expect, the only slight fly in the ointment is I really do not like the default tabbed view for email. I much much much prefer each email in a separate window as I am far too used to killing the window to close an email, whereas with tabbed view I kill the whole email program. However its very simple to move back to the original window per mail view.

If you are longing for a mail client that does exactly what it says on the tin with a minimum of fuss and hassle then I can recommend Thunderbird. Now if Mozilla could only reinvent Firefox which has become bloated and sluggish in much the same way that IE 6 was.