Mozilla Thunderbird | Safe Fast Easy-to-Use Email Client

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla. It's the safe, fast email client that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including an impressive new search system, support for tabs in the user interface, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more.

The growing dominance of Web-based messaging services like Gmail have raised challenging questions about the future relevance of desktop mail clients. Thunderbird which aims to be a simple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client, delivers some truly innovative features and offers compelling evidence that desktop clients still have a lot of untapped potential and can provide capabilities that complement and exceed the power of even the best Web-based mail offerings.

Great Features:

Search, the search interface in Thunderbird contains filtering and timeline tools to pinpoint the exact email you’re looking for. Thunderbird also indexes all of your emails to help you search even faster. Your search results are displayed in a tab so you can easily switch back and forth to your search results and other email.
Tabs, tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them.
Message Archive, Archiving helps you manage your inbox and put your email into a new archive folder system.
Add-ons Manager, Find and install add-ons directly in Thunderbird. You no longer need to visit the add-ons Web site—instead simply fire up the Add-ons Manager.
Mail Account Setup Wizard, prior to this new feature you had to know your IMAP, SMTP, SSL/TLS settings. Now all you need to provide is your name, email address, and password and the new email account set up wizard will check their database and find the email settings for you.
Attachment Reminder, it reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send.
Phishing Protection, Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defense, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.
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