

The program offers advanced email exchange functionality, supports multiple accounts and identities, flexible email sorting and filtering, message grouping and labeling, features a powerful Bayesian filter to cut off spam messages and offers a host of other powerful functions.

Completely free and open source, it is available to users on various platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, not to mention unofficial ports to more exotic operating systems, such as OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. For more information, see What is the Mozilla Maintenance Service?.Mozilla Thunderbird® is one of the major alternatives to Microsoft’s email applications and PIM tools. In the next screen, you can choose whether to install the optional Mozilla Maintenance Service which allows application updates to occur in the background, without requiring you to click Yes in the Windows User Account Control (UAC) dialog. Space available: The amount of space available on your hard drive.Space required: The amount of space on your hard drive that's needed to install Thunderbird.You can change the folder where Thunderbird will be installed either by manually typing the location of another folder on your computer or you can click Browse… to select a new folder. When the 32-bit Thunderbird version is installed on 64-bit Windows, the default folder path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\ It's also the default location on 64-bit Windows when the 64-bit Thunderbird version is installed. The next step is where you can choose a different Destination Folder, which is where the Thunderbird program files will be installed.Ĭ:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\ is the default folder path on 32-bit Windows. Select the Custom setup type and click Next. These options are not available in a Standard setup. The Standard setup will be selected by default.Ī Custom setup lets you choose the folder where Thunderbird program files will be installed, as well as which shortcuts to create. Note: You can install Thunderbird without losing any existing messages and settings.Īfter clicking Next you can choose a Standard or Custom installation.
