Bottom lineįor just $10, competing client Postbox enhances the Thunderbird engine with a layer of polish and poise that its progenitor lacks. Superb Search: A clever, comprehensive set of search results sets Thunderbird 16 apart. But in practice, it seems tedious for anyone but the most demanding users to track down and add third-party extensions just so that Thunderbird can offer the same features its main rivals provide right out of the box. In theory, Thunderbird’s extensibility deserves applause. When I went trolling through my spam folder to test that assurance, Thunderbird did alert me to some bogus messages-but it left other clear attempts at redirecting me to a phony website pass unacknowledged. The program promises to flag scam email messages for you. I wish Thunderbird’s security features were more reliable. (Third-party add-ons claim to integrate Exchange calendars, but it wasn’t clear to me whether any of them offer direct support for Exchange email.) However, the process applies only to POP and IMAP, with no support for Exchange. Echoing Apple Mail’s own easy setup, it needs only your name, email address, and password to find and configure a new account. Thunderbird’s account import wizard also worked like a charm. It’s well designed and delightfully useful, and it feels like a real innovation that Thunderbird’s rivals would do well to steal. In my tests, its search feature was truly impressive, displaying the results of my query in a new tab, with further filters for incoming or outgoing messages, or those from a given recipient. Its surface appeal aside, Thunderbird’s under-the-hood abilities prove to be hit-or-miss. Furthermore, to even know how to get to FileLink, I had to consult Thunderbird’s spotty online help files, and then burrow a few layers deep into its Preferences. But by default, FileLink supports only the relatively obscure Box, Ubuntu, and YouSendIt protocols you can enable Dropbox support via an add-on. For instance, the built-in FileLink feature connects Thunderbird to outside file-sharing services, allowing users to swap large files that won’t fit email providers’ size limits.
Reader Beware: Thunderbird promises to flag scam email messages, but phishing attempts like this one go unacknowledged.Įven when Thunderbird offers something its rivals don’t, the feature can be difficult to find, and hindered by the program’s open-source allegiances.
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