Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set.
Features:
Features:
- Full-Featured Email
- Junk Mail Filters
- Anti-Phishing Protection
- Advanced Security
- Automatic Updates
- Customize Thunderbird
Changelog:
- Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
- Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability and maximize screen real estate.
- Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
- Advanced Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
- Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services: Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.
- Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
- Improved New Mail Notification Alerts: New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message preview text.
- Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
- Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
- Find As You Type: Finds and highlights message text as you type.
- Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
- Updates to the Extension System: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
- New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
- Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista.

in OE, it displays "Size" instead of "Lines" in newsgroups, and lets me join newsgroup posts together.
does Thunderbird do that?
in OE, it displays "Size" instead of "Lines" in newsgroups, and lets me join newsgroup posts together.
does Thunderbird do that?
No, and I don't care, because I don't download usenet binaries with my email client.
Tried it works fine except AOL extension don't work.
Thanks again for the update!
The old version would frequently disply incorrect ammounts of mail in folders with lots of messages.
Trouble is, my wife's Incredimail has built in Hotmail account support, where as I have to use 3rd party software for Thunderbird to pull my Hotmail accounts in. If other email programs can pull Hotmail in, then they could too.
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