Welcome to Spread Thunderbird! You are our marketing department -- a diverse community of people tired of email overload, spam, viruses, identity theft, and software that just doesn't work. You have a vision of the 21st century of how we can better communicate and we can not let monopolies dictate what that looks like. We'll provide the tools, but you will drive campaigns that will be rolled out here over the coming months. In that vein, Spread Thunderbird ("stb") follows the Mozilla community tradition:
- The community built Thunderbird (as it has Firefox). Over the last 10 years, thousands of individuals from around the world have invested countless hours to develop Thunderbird and the technologies it is built on. Hundreds of thousands of people already participate in Mozilla communities such as SpreadFirefox, Bugzilla, MozillaZine, and MozDev.
- The community is spreading the word about Thunderbird. Millions of people are already using Thunderbird. Thousands of websites already link to our Thunderbird page. People are deploying Thunderbird in Government, Large and Small Business, and at school.
- This site itself is a community effort, programmed and designed by volunteers using an open source community platform called Drupal.
We hope you'll bear with us as we ramp up development of this site in the coming months. In the future, Spread Thunderbird will coordinate a series of volunteer efforts to promote Thunderbird, and run campaigns to focus our community's energy on very tangible, specific goals. This is just a beta, and there are still validation errors and bugs on the site, so make sure to let us know if something's not working right or if you have ideas for cool new features. Register, sign in, and spread the word by adding a Thunderbird promo line to your email signature and one of our buttons to your web site (or your personal new Spread Thunderbird blog). Each time someone clicks on your link, you'll get a point, so you'll be able to see how much impact you're making. We highlight and publicize the ten most successful promoters in the "roll call" in the green bar on the right. In the future, prizes and pronounced placement on the wildly popular Mozilla website will offer additional motivation to bump yourself into the top ten. We also intend to beef up our referral tracking and award points for many other things besides referrals, such as donations and active participation in one of our marketing teams. Thanks and let's get to work! The Spread Thunderbird team -- Jamey, Ken, Paul, Rafael, Ian
Comments (66)
Thunderbird Rocks
Bye Bye Outlook, too much headaches for simple tasks. TB couldn't be easier.
Thunderbird has many reported flaws and needs improvement
I am Thunderbird user for a long time. Never used Outlook or worse stuff. But I can't deny that Thunderbird makes me crazy sometimes for several flaws not corrected and that continues over and over, such as:
1. Emails with many jpg attached takes twice to download/save them: Thunderbird takes time to load all images to show them in the message window, and also shows their icons in the bottom window, where you can select "save all". BUT it always make the download job twice: it takes time to get all images to show AND takes time again to download every image again to save them. Why doesn't it save the already downloaded images instead?
2. Filters do not work smoothly. Many expressions in the filters' rules are systematicaly bypassed or neglected, even if they are simple as this: "on the spot", "mpeg", "[the list]", etc. It then does not move/copy the emails containing them from the inbox to other boxes as you wish.
The problem is worse with the "move" option, when you are using the ONLY two possible actions (why does it have only 2 options for actions? What if we want to copy the filtered messages to many boxes and then move them to another one? Thunderbird won't let you do this...)
And if you try again to apply the filter, it won't pass all emails again. You will have to do it manually, as with no filtering service...
3. The search window has an OLD and persistent problem in its GUI: after starting a search, if you want to stop it, the button will not return to a "start" state anymore: it will always show "searching". This was reported many versions back, but the error is still there. This confuses the user. Also, if you stop and start it again some times consecutively, it will produce garbage as output: something which does not have anything to do with your search expression, and also blank lines...
Additionally, it is not possible to configure the search windows to open with the field "from" as default: you can not reconfigure a default field option.
And worse: as you get your result from a search action, you CAN NOT copy a selected group of messages to another box: the ONLY option you have is to MOVE them... This limits what you can do after finding the messages you wanted...
I use it and like it, but there is still much to improve.
Thunderbird vs Gmail
I hate gmail the way it groups conversations together and would take thunderbird any day, and with all the problems of Outlook, I don't think that's a viable option.
Actually that's one of the
Actually that's one of the things I like about GMail. I wish there was an addon to do that for thunderbird - I've looked but the closest there is to it is colour tagging - and marking priority or using priorities to group things together by look.
I hate GMail for this very
I hate GMail for this very reason! I usually use Outlook but it has grown beyond the point of putting up with it. Software should be simple, Outlook is a complete nightmare. I have been using Thunderbird for only a week and already I have fallen in love with it, it's incredibly simple to do what I need to do with my multiple email accounts!
Thunderbird is becoming
Thunderbird is becoming famous nowadays. This will definitely rule the browser world.
Now, Thunderbird is in top 10
Now, Thunderbird is in top 10 email clients and its share grows up.
Halloween Costumes
The content says there is a 21st century vision, let me know where i can find that, and i am interested to use that, since even it has firefox also. And is there any benefit for us if we use, as the content says we can earn points too.. Let me know about these, and let me know whether any trial is available to use.
Thunderbird is great
I have an email address where I get 100's of 1000's of spam emails. I use Thunderbird to pull all of those emails off of my server and it fixes my big email dilemma.
Good stuff
Thunderbird rocks.
I'm Excited
I'm glad I found SpreadThunderbird. I hope to be able to help out as much as possible.
spreadthunderbird is good
spreadthunderbird is good community!
I'm using thunderbird for 2
I'm using thunderbird for 2 years already, and it's the best!!!
Thunderbird
I am new user to Thunderbird. I don't know much about it but after reading your article I am sure that it would be good experience about Thunderbird.
One of the reasons that
One of the reasons that Firefox has been successful is the extraordinary way that users have been mobilized as part of a vast, global marketing group without precedent.
Thank you for your constant efforts!
Thunderbird is a great mailclient - no need for outlook (exept: "Iphone Support)
Nice
Thunderbird offers some incredible opportunity and it seems a really nice client. It provides IMAP, POP3 and works with Gmail well!
Hi
i'm starting to download thunderbird right now .. and just want to say thank you, i hope works fine like all mozilla stuff, i love firefox =) .. and want to try Thunderbird instead the "other" well know program :D
WBR from Mexico
Luis
Thankyou
Well I can say that your "points" idea seems to be very nice. I'm just curious if you guys can give us some feedback on the outcome based on your expectations. I'm trying to use the same formula for a CMS I wrote back in my university days. Thanks,
Open source rocks. Most of
Open source rocks. Most of the people understand the power and the lot of other good aspects of using open source products like firefox, thuderbird etc. They are getting popular day by day. One of the most important thing that I really like as an open source software user is that the community. hope it will grow bigger and bigger......
I see you did it! You can
I see you did it! You can clearly see the difference with the new version. I hope it becomes really popular as your direct competition. Regards
Nice community
Spread thunderbird is realy nice community
goodby outlook...
...welcome thunderbird. I changed to thunderbird and asked myself why i used outlook for so a long time - and paid for it!
Big Mozilla Fan
I am a huge mozilla fan so I am eager to get everything working :) Thanks
thunderbird has been so good
thunderbird has been so good to me. You definitely do a great job. i have been using for a while and enjoy it.
Freshly joined your site
The first thing to say - i’m delighted to meet this community. I got same problem like lots of people around the world - managing my own emails,so tired of outlook, of their system..But after i took the chance that Thunderbird is providing i'm already statisfied 100%. Follow me, you won't regret. micky
New user
One more user for thunderbird community. I have just begun to use thunderbird and seems to be pretty interesting.
I am using ThunderBird for
I am using ThunderBird for some time. Well, it's not bad piece of software, like Outlook for example, but it could be better. Thunderbird is way far ahead then outlook especially when it comes on spending.
Newbie
I'll have to give Thunderbird a try. I've been a HUGE mozilla fan for a long time now, so switching over is going to take a killer product. We'll see if Thunderbird makes the cut. Golf Games
New user
I'm a new user of thunderbird. I just hope I will have a better experience with this than outlook.
yeah i like how its
yeah i like how its lightweight. using a portable version on my mobile and its great that you can update it without it screwing up the portable software. works seamlessly. only thing is i have some addons with it and it kinda bounces the memory consumption a bit. but so far I'm impressed.
Thanks. Thunderbird is really
Thanks. Thunderbird is really good.
Its great
All I can say I never used outlook or something like that cause I wasnt pleased the way it manages my emails.
Gave thunderbird a go around, and its great.
Will defenetly spread the word arround, at least to my work colegues
from outlook express to thunderbird
I was using Outlook express but a friend of mine told me about Thunderbird... It's really great, I'm sold! It seems there is a great community too!
Fly Thunderbird Fly
That's the same way I learnt about it. I was using Outlook and frustrated by it's limited retrieval rate, only about 100msgs an update. Firebird eases this and has an unlimited retrieval rate.
I agree
That was it!
Thanks!
great idea!
Well I can say that your "points" idea seems to be very nice. I'm just curious if you guys can give us some feedback on the outcome based on your expectations. I'm trying to use the same formula for a CMS I wrote back in my university days.
Thanks,
Venetsian.
Open Source Applications
I have been using thunderbird for a while. It is great. I am more than willing to spread the word. I think most people will love this email once they use it. Thanks for providing this and other great tools.
Great Software
I tried ThunderBird recently, and I must say it is fantastic. I was getting really sick of outlook Any new products coming from you guys...? :)
I am using Thunderbird and it
I am using Thunderbird and it is very nice email client, but when i do a search i can only use 1 window - like 1 search at the time, if i could make several searches at once it would be great. Keep up with a good work.
Regards
You people are really doing a
You people are really doing a great job hats off to you guys
Spread Thunderbird, Yea
I have been using thunderbird for a while. It is great. I am more than willing to spread the word. I think most people will love this email once they use it. Thanks for providing this and other great tools. Good open source applications will probably become more and more popular as people find out about it.
All I can say I never used
All I can say I never used outlook or something like that cause I wasnt pleased the way it manages my emails.
Gave thunderbird a go around, and its great.
Will defenetly spread the word arround, at least to my work colegues
I agree with you, I'm using
I agree with you, I'm using outlook for quite sometime and when I discover this thunderbird works very well with me.
Is this where we check in?
Roll call, hehe. At any rate, I posted about my experience with Thunderbird and past tries with Outlook in my first Spread THunderbird blog post. I'm excited and proud to be using it, and will do my part to help others with TB also.
From Outlook To Thunderbird!
Thunderbird has been great for my email needs. I like being able to add different extensions, and also its ease of use. You guys have done an awesome job on this email client. I can't remember the last time I fired up Outlook. I'm hoping that TB continues to expand and get even better in features and performance. But as it stands right now, the combination of Firefox and Thunderbird can't be beat! James Tayler
Just tried Thunderbird
After using Outlook for many years I have now shifted over to thunderbird. So far it is really great. The speed compared to outlook is amazing. Best regards Martin
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Glad I found you guys.
I have been using Thunderbird for over 8 months now. Can not say enough great stuff about it. Chad