What Is Mozilla Thunderbird

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∟Mozilla Thunderbird - Mail User Agents (MUA)

∟What Is Mozilla Thunderbird

This section provides a quick introduction of Mozilla Thunderbird, which is email client, or MUA (Mail User Agent), for retrieving and submitting email messages.

What Is Thunderbird? Thunderbird is a popular and free email client tool, also called MUA (Mail User Agent), that supports POP3, IMAP and SMTP for retrieving and submitting email messages. It supports all 3 major platforms: Windows, macOS and Linux.

Main features of Thunderbird include:

Mail Account Setup Wizard - Prior to this feature you had to know your IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, and SSL/TLS settings. Now all you need to provide is your name, email address, and password and the email account set up wizardry will check our database and find the email settings for you.
One-click Address Book - One-click Address Book is a quick and easy way to add people to your address book. Add people by simply clicking on the star icon in the message you receive. Two clicks and you can add more details like a photo, birthday, and other contact information.
Attachment Reminder - The attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send.
Tabbed Email - If you like Firefox's tabbed browsing, you're going to love tabbed email. Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Perhaps you're responding to an email and need to refer back to an earlier email. Tabbed email lets you keep multiple emails open for easy reference.
Quick Filter Toolbar - The Quick Filter Toolbar lets you filter your email faster. Start typing in words in the Quick Filter search box and the results are displayed instantly. Or you can filter your email by New Messages, Tags, and people in your Address Book. You can also "Pin" or save a Filter and use it across multiple folders.
Search Tools - The search interface in Thunderbird contains filtering and timeline tools to pinpoint the exact email you're looking for. Thunderbird also indexes all of your emails and chat conversations to help you search even faster. Your search results are displayed in a tab so you can easily switch back and forth to your search results and other email.
Message Archive - If you think you're going to need an email in the future but want it out of your inbox without deleting it, archive it! Archiving helps you manage your inbox and put your email into the archive folder system.