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Mozilla Thunderbird is a , Thunderbird has been downloaded more than 50 million times since 1.0 release. HISTORY See Also: History of Mozilla Thunderbird Originally launched as ''Minotaur'' shortly after '' Phoenix '' (the original name for Mozilla Firefox ), the project failed to gain momentum. With the success of the latter, however, demand increased for a mail client to go with it, and the work on Minotaur was revived under the new name, and migrated to the new toolkit developed by the Firefox team. Significant work on Thunderbird restarted with the announcement that from version 1.5 onwards, the main Mozilla suite would be designed around separate applications using this new toolkit. This contrasts with the previous all-in-one approach, and will hopefully lead to more efficient and maintainable code, as well as allowing users to mix and match the Mozilla applications with alternatives. The original Mozilla Suite continues to be developed as SeaMonkey . On December 23 , 2004 , the Project Lightning was announced for tightly integrating Calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird, and is now available as an extension. On will be based upon the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email program." The project is code-named Penelope . An unofficial Eudora/Penelope forum is accessible via web or newsreader. On July 26 2007 , the Mozilla Foundation announced that Thunderbird would be developed by an independent organization, because the Mozilla Corporation (the for profit portion of Mozilla) is focusing on Mozilla Firefox development.1 FEATURES Thunderbird aims to be a simple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client. It is not a Personal Information Manager . Additional features, if needed, are often available via Extension s. Message management Thunderbird can manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts and supports multiple identities within accounts. Features like quick search, saved search folders ("virtual folders"), advanced message filtering, message grouping, and labels can help manage and find messages. On Linux -based systems, system mail ( Movemail ) accounts are supported. Junk filtering Thunderbird incorporates a Bayesian Spam filter, a Whitelist based on the included address book, and can also understand classifications by server-based filters such as SpamAssassin Mozillazine Forums Extensions Extension s allow the addition of features through the installation of XPInstall modules (known as "XPI" or "zippy" installation). One example is Enigmail , which uses OpenPGP for message encryption. {Link without Title} Extensions and themes (below) available on the Mozilla Update site may be upgraded through the client. Themes Thunderbird supports a variety of Theme s for changing its overall look and feel. These packages of CSS and Image files can be downloaded from Mozilla Add-ons . Standards support Thunderbird supports POP and IMAP . It also supports LDAP address completion. The built-in RSS / Atom reader can also be used as a simple News Aggregator . Thunderbird supports the S/MIME standard and extensions like Enigmail add support for the OpenPGP standard. Cross-platform support Thunderbird runs on a wide variety of platforms. Releases available on the primary distribution site support the following operating systems: Thunderbird System Requirements . ''Mozilla.org''.
Since the source code is available, it can also be compiled and run on a variety of other architectures and operating systems. Thus, Thunderbird is unofficially also available for many other systems. Internationalization and localization With contributors all over the world, the client is translated into at least 36 languages/locales, covering some of the least supported locales, such as Chichewa . Because of the use of DTD and property files for storing the String Literals , part of the Internationalization And Localization job can be done easily by anyone without programming background, using simply a Text Editor . Security Thunderbird provides enterprise and government-grade security features such as SSL/TLS connections to IMAP and SMTP servers. It also offers native support for S/MIME secure email ( Digital Signing and message Encryption using Certificate s). Any of these security features can take advantage of Smartcards with the installation of additional extensions. Other security features can be added though extensions. For instance, Enigmail offers PGP signing, encryption, and decryption. Optional security protections also include disabling loading of remote images within messages, enabling only specific media types (sanitizer), and disabling JavaScript . MARKET ADOPTION As of April 2005, the 's College of Arts & Science has adopted Thunderbird as its e-mail client of choice. Also, the University of Leeds School of Computing uses Thunderbird as its main mail client for new students. CRITICISMS As with Firefox, the Mac OS X version suffers integration issues due to the use of deprecated Carbon widgets in the current version of Gecko . Support for Cocoa widgets will be introduced in Gecko 1.9.http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Cocoa_Widgets SEE ALSO
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