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For years I had resisted Outlook, standing by Pegasus. But Pegasus is showing sign of age. Alas, the humble creature looks like it cannot hold back any longer the onslaught of Outlook, backed by a powerful war-machine.

But fear not, Thunderbird to the rescue.

An epic saga brewing? You bet!

Email must be one of the most used application on the computer today. And what better way to start introducing free software than with an email program.

The resistance to switching email program is high. First, there is a whole lot of email archive to transfer over. Then there is the learning curve, to re-acustomise to the many small daily activities that had built around it.

It wasn’t easy for me as well. Pegasus had been my email companion for almost 9 years. There are so many automated filters, identities, and preference that just works. If it’s not broken why fix it.

If you have many accounts, one way to switch (which I did), is to move a low volume account to Thunderbird. Try out the features and test out the functions. When comfortable, transfer a few more or make a complete switch.

As for the old mails? They are still lying in the Pegasus folder. A good exercise to throw away some old baggages.

Reclaim your inbox.

What I like about Thunderbird

• Filter spam.
  This won me over. Before I had to write filters to fight spam, now alot all spam are caught and discarded.
• Handles multiple accounts well.
  Only wish that the smtp configuration is together with the account setting and not in a separate menu.
• Cool plugins
  Interesting and cools plugins developed by a large community
• Large user base, good support, easy to find solution
• Good HTML mail rendering (as compared to Pegasus)

Where to get it?

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Current version: 1.0
Function: Email reader (client)