New review: Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac Mozilla Thunderbird just updated for Mac and it's better than ever. Check out the latest version of this feature-packed e-mail client and read our review. About Thunderbird for Mac. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform email and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird 3.1 changes the way you do email with tabbed email, and a new set of search tools helps you find your emails faster.

Mozilla has officially put its Thunderbird email client out to pasture by dropping development of the app. The organization said that continuing to develop Thunderbird isn’t a priority any more, but is leaving the door open for the developer community to pick up and carry forward the app. Mozilla retires Thunderbird Thunderbird will be split into two versions: Thunderbird ESR, which will continue to get official security updates from Mozilla, and Thunderbird for the developer community to use and update as they wish. “Much of Mozilla’s leadership — including that of the Thunderbird team — has come to the conclusion that on-going stability is the most important thing, and that continued innovation in Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla’s product efforts,” the group said in a.

There haven’t been any changes to the Thunderbird code since Mozilla’s announcement, so it’s too early to tell if other developers will take the app and run with it. Without official Mozilla support, however, it isn’t likely that the app will gain mainstream support.

About Thunderbird for Mac Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform email and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a smaller and faster web browser.

Just as Firefox aims to redefine the web browser, Thunderbird is a refinement of the mail and news interface. Users often use them both together. Thunderbird Features • Under the Help Menu, you can find the new Migration Assistant to help you set up Thunderbird the way you want it. • Prior to this new feature you had to know your IMAP, SMTP, SSL/TLS settings. Now all you need to provide is your name, email address, and password and the new email account set up wizard will check our database and find the email settings for you. • One-click Address Book is a quick and easy way to add people to your address book. • The new attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send.

• The Activity Manager records all the interactions between Thunderbird and your email provider in one place. • Thunderbird 3.1 changes the way you do email with tabbed email, and a new set of search tools helps you find your emails faster. Pip install to python 2.7.