Thunderbird 1.5 Released -- Reclaim your inbox

If you're not familiar with Thunderbird, it's a full featured free e-mail program from Mozilla. It's a great alternative to Outlook Express and it's easy to use. Thunderbird will also prevent e-mail attachments from automatically opening or displaying in your message panel. You can also filter out attachments before they're downloaded, so you never have to get forwarded Powerpoint attachments and your co-worker's baby photo album attachments unless you want to. Your Outlook Express address book and e-mail setting are all easily imported into Thunderbird. This is the latest release (1.5) and it has lots of features like junk mail filtering, advanced security and automatic updates. One of the new features is antiphishing protection.
Thunderbird protects you from increasingly common email scams—also known as “phishing”—which try to fool you into handing over your passwords and other personal information. Thunderbird will tell you when it thinks a message might be a scam. I've been using Thunderbird for well over a year and it has served me well. You can download a free copy from
Mozilla.com