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What is Thunderbird?

Thunderbird, developed by Mozilla, is an email application designed to provide users with a fast, secure, and customizable email experience. It is positioned as a versatile solution suitable for individuals, small businesses, and large organizations. According to the vendor, professionals in various fields such as software development, computer science, engineering, and design rely on Thunderbird for efficient email management. Additionally, small business owners, non-profit organizations, government agencies, freelancers, and remote workers also benefit from Thunderbird's robust features and emphasis on privacy and security.

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Thunderbird Delivers on its Promise

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Rene AgredanoView profile
Advocacy Journalist and Co-Founder in Marketing at Tripawds.com (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've been using Thunderbird for at least 15 years. Every day it's an indispensable tool for our email, task tracking, and scheduling. It helps us manage our incoming messages, stay on top of our meetings, and use it as a replacement for Microsoft email software. After all these years, nothing has done more to help us stay on top of the deluge of messages we receive for product orders and general correspondence needs of our businesses.

Pros

  • Email receiving
  • Email sending
  • Email composition
  • Ability to add calendar and task plugins

Cons

  • Its VERY difficult to find a good backup solution
  • We would love to see more attention paid to task scheduling and tracking
  • It would be nice to have all-in-one solution instead of having to use different plug-ins

Return on Investment

  • Its FREE and donation based. Can't get better than that.
  • I love that we aren't giving away our privacy to Google.
  • And I especially love that it's a grass-rootsy endeavor.

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Desktop Premier, Canva, Adobe Express, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Slack

Great for a free email client and I love supporting opensource

Incentivized
Verified User
Executive (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Gmail as my email client for about 10 years. But for some reason, starting about 2 years ago, certain emails just wouldn't download (using POP3, not IMAP). So I needed another email client to cross-reference, and make sure I wasn't missing anything important. I still use Gmail as my primary client for about 8 of my 10 email addresses.

Pros

  • Successfully downloads all of my email
  • Allows me to connect via IMAP so it's synced with my actual email server

Cons

  • Not nearly as clean or nice-looking as Gmail
  • Easy to navigate threading and search capability seems limited
  • Very slow and clunky. I am still combing through about 10,000 emails that I'm slowly trying to delete (mostly junk/spam/transactional emails) and if I highlight even just like 20 emails at a time it takes about 5 seconds to delete them so no way to do this efficiently

Return on Investment

  • More efficient email navigation and answering = more efficient work time for me

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise, Microsoft Excel, Slack

#1 In It's Category, Must Check It out

Incentivized
Verified User
General Manager in Corporate (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mozilla Thunderbird is the only "email client" we use across our organization since the past 7-8 years. Emails has emerged as a vital and official channel of communication and this product, despite being free, has continued to provide 100% failsafe and secure performance ever since the first installation. I have never used the actual gmail interface and have this email client installed on every terminal in use. The ability to manage folders, pull out email threads / history , to priortize or mark emails for further action and its event reminders - these are just at the beginning of the list of positives

Pros

  • Setup and organization of folders and sub-folders
  • Email Security
  • Ease of managing emails

Cons

  • definitely needs a mobile /andriod version

Return on Investment

  • While quantifying the direct impact of such a product is difficult, I can add that we have made it mandatory for all our personnel

Alternatives Considered

Mailbird

Other Software Used

Wave.video, Google Ads, Facebook Business Manager, Bitrix24, Zoho Campaigns, Zoho CRM, FileZilla, Google Meet, Google Drive, Mozilla Firefox