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Must-Have Extensions for Thunderbird 2.0

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-some-definition-of-must dept.

Operator writes "While Firefox has been in the spotlight for some time now, Thunderbird has yet to enjoy the same wide adoption or glowing praise despite being an excellent email client. It's no surprise that a popular topic has been Firefox's best (and worst) extensions while Thunderbird add-ons have gone largely unnoticed. In celebration of the recent release of Thunderbird 2.0 here are the best extensions for the program along with some honorable mentions."

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  1. Re:KMail by SCHecklerX · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    While we're slightly off-topic, my vote goes to sylpheed

    I use it at home on my linux box, and it runs just fine as a portable app (sylpheed --configdir=foo) from the USB stick when forced to use somebody else's computer on the road (IMAP over SSL along with SMTP Auth and SMTP with Starttls to my home server).

    A very nice lightweight mail client, with some good improvements to the UI in the 2.4 version that was recently released.

    If you enjoy having more crap built-in (like rendering HTML), check out claws, which is a fork of sylpheed.

  2. Re:KMail by jimstapleton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'll second this...

    After thunderbird destroyed my local mail store once a week (admittedly I could go in and fix the mailbox files by hand with some effort, trial, and error), I went back to KMail in KDE and Outlook Express in Window, both of which have never had corrupted mailboxes in my use of them, and I have been using both much longer.

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  3. Re:KMail by Billhead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Its jigawatt, not gigawatt!