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Mozilla Thunderbird

 The open source email program, Mozilla Thunderbird is now at version 3. It is from the Mozilla Messaging part of Mozilla Foundation and can compliment the web browser Mozilla Firefox.

 Thunderbird is an email, news and RSS/Atom Feed program that continues to bring state-or-the-art features for organising your messages and news as well as protecting your privacy with enterprise ready security including intuitive anti-spam filtering and phishing prevention.

Other features include major performance improvements, updated account creation wizard, tabbed email browsing, improved search tools, smart folders, podcasting, spell-check as you type and improved add-on and update features. Have news at your fingertips with the enhanced built-in RSS and Atom news feed reader.

 All the choice of Post-Office Protocol 3 (POP3) to retrieve your email and Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) to best keep in touch at home, work and any other multiple location. Now with IMAP Synchronisation so you can read your messages when you are not connected to the internet. Multiple accounts and multiple identities along with labels and global inbox is also supported. Provides the highest standards for its industry.

Being a free of charge and small download with an easy to use installer you can be up and running in no time. It can even transfer existing contacts, settings, etc from various other email programs.

 If Thunderbird does not have the built in feature you need there are loads of extensions and visual themes to extend the power and look of your constant connection to friends, family and others: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/.

 Thunderbird 3 is built on the same advanced Mozilla 1.9.1 platform as Firefox 3.5.

More information about Mozilla, that powers Thunderbird, in the Mozilla Gecko page, To download Thunderbird you can go to its official webpage.

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