Mozilla Thunderbird is probably the best email client around. Besides being a slight resource hog the program works great. The only protocol that I use for email is IMAP, this allows for me to keep track of my emails from any location I am at. Many email client’s support for this protocol is very lacking, the only one I have found to do a great job with a GUI is Thunderbird. Most of the very good IMAP clients are command line, such as pine. Command line is great for many things, but for me a GUI is much nicer when it comes to email.
One of my issues with Thunderbird in the office environment is that it looks different. I like the different GUI, what I am talking about is when you reply and forward messages. When dealing with a setting where everyone uses Outlook the one Thunderbird user stand out like a soar thumb.
What I have found should fix this. It is an extension that changes the format of replies and email forwards. The extension is simply called Changequote. It changes the reply and forward formats to be much more like those of Outlook. I have only been using it for a few hours now, but thus far it is exactly what I have been thinking about for a long while.
