What is Mozilla Thunderbird?

Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client Review

Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular cross platform open source email, chat and news client developed by Mozilla foundations. It is available free of cost for all Windows, MAC and Linux users. In the first release of Mozilla Thunderbird client, it has been downloaded 1,000,000 times in just 10 days. Mozilla Thunderbird became more popular due to its vast features for personal as well as business use.

What is Mozilla Thunderbird Used For?

This is a big query for all internet users that for which purpose Thunderbird is used mainly. So in this section you will get information all about that. Let me clear that Mozilla Thunderbird is program for internet users packed with several functions such as: Email, Chat and News feeds. Which can be used to manage your email, subscribe to news feeds and chat with other users. Get detailed information about these all features below.

1) Mozilla Thunderbird as an Email Application!

Mozilla Thunderbird is widely used for emailing purposes. By using this free desktop email client, users can easily send, receive emails through POP, IMAP and SMTP mail servers. It also keeps all your emails in a mailbox (.mbox) file which is globally accepted. By using this email backup or archive file you may able to access your precious emails every time from anywhere.

Note: POP and IMAP are used for incoming server and SMPT is used for Outgoing server.

2) Mozilla Thunderbird as a Newsgroup!

Mozilla Thunderbird can be installed as a newsgroup which allows reading messages from and write messages to Usenet newsgroups.

Steps to Configure Thunderbird as your Newsgroup Reader:

• Select File >> New >> Other Accounts…
• Select Newsgroup account and Click the Next button.
• Enter your name and email account
• Enter the address of the newsgroup server that you want to subscribe
• Enter a name for the account

Note: To join a specific group, right click the account name then select Subscribe. You can also modify or customize account setting later.

3) Mozilla Thunderbird as a Chat Client!

Thunderbird also supports chat and instant messaging using Facebook, IRC, XMPP, Google Talk and twitter. To use chat function you first need to create a new account with an online instant messaging or chat provider. Start the New Account Wizard

A Few Additional Features of Mozilla Thunderbird Software

What is the File Extension for Mozilla Thunderbird?

The .mbox extension is the main file used by Thunderbird to store entire email messages. The Mozilla Thunderbird creates individual files for each folder without having any extension which is itself.mbox extensions. Apart from that a few more related file extensions are available as shown in below list.

.MAB	Mozilla Address Book
.EML	E-mail Message
.MSF	Mail Summary File
.WDSEML	Thunderbird Searchable Email File
.LDIF	LDAP Data Interchange Format File
.MAR	Mozilla Archive
.MAILT	Mail Internet Location File
.MFL	Mozilla FastLoad File
.MIM	Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Message File
.P7S	Digitally Signed Email Message
.MIME	Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extension
.ACS	PGP ASCII Armored File
.SLT	Mozilla User Profile Folder
.XMP	Mozilla Installer Package
.WDSE	Thunderbird Searchable Email File

What is Default Location for Mozilla Thunderbird Files?

Thunderbird File Locations for Windows:

C:\User\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\

Thunderbird File Locations for MAC OS X:

~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<Profile name>/

Mozilla Default File Location for Linux & UNIX:

~/.thunderbird/<Profile name>/

Final Verdict:

Mozilla Thunderbird save all e-mails in .mbox files which can be transfer to MS Outlook through MBOX to PST conversion. After analyzing the entire features of Mozilla Thunderbird, we found that this is the best free open source email application program. We want to give it 9.8 rating out of 10. If you are a beginner in the industry and looking for a desktop email application, then use Mozilla Thunderbird for free.