Mozilla Thunderbird

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is a free distributed free from the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Project.
  • The project, dedicated solely to e-mail, newsgroups and RSS and Atom, is more lightweight and faster than the Mozilla Suite. Like Firefox, Thunderbird is based on the Gecko engine and has an interface in XUL, which allows it to operate on various platforms.
  • It is also "scalable", that is to say, it can easily accommodate new functionality by adding extensions. Thunderbird is released under the MPL (Mozilla Public License) and MPL / GPL / GNU (LGPL tri-license), available for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU / Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.
  • The latest software is available in 52 languages.
  • Originally called "Minotaur" (in the days when Firefox was called Phoenix "), the first project had little success. Only gradually, at a rate much slower than Firefox, it extends its coverage. On April 14, 2003, "Minotaur" is Mozilla Thunderbird.
  • Significant work on Thunderbird continued with the announcement that since version 1.5, the Mozilla Suite is now handled differently, working separately on each software, which would then be integrated with the Mozilla Suite.