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An alternative to Microsoft Outlook Express that's Free!

Tried of all those viruses and Trojans that come through your Outlook express account? Than try Thunderbird an open source e-mail program from Mozilla. The same people who brought you Firefox and the original Netscape.

Thunderbird is available as a free download at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/. Thunderbird features are:
1) Thunderbird tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify.
2) View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your e-mail.
3) Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices.
4) Thunderbird supports your mail sever, it has a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, e-mail message quick search, saved search folders, message filtering and grouping, e-mail labels, return receipts, smart address book, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and news group accounts.
5) You can add additional extensions (at no cost) to carry our specialized tasks, such as eliminating duplicate messages. The extensions are available, with a brief description, athttps://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=thunderbird.
6) You can also change the theme and overall appearance of your thunderbird mail client if you wish.
7) Installation is easy as Thunderbird provides you with an install wizard once you have downloaded the thunderbird package. Just double click to install.

Copyright 2006 David Sharp