Chapter 3. Thunderbird: A Safer Email Client

These days, it seems that when we think about the Internet, we think about Web browsers first. To those of us who have been on the Net for more years than we care to admit, that always seems a bit strange. The chief medium of information exchange on the Internet has always been electronic mail, or email. Although our perception has changed, email is probably still the number one application in the connected world.

In this chapter, I will introduce you to a powerful, graphical email client that is safer, faster, and more flexible than the default client on your PC. It’s called Thunderbird and it comes from the same group that brought you Firefox, the Mozilla foundation. Thunderbird also features great ...

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