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[[Category:Explore an application]]
[[Category:Explore an application]]
=== Introduction ===
Thunderbird (TB) is a “Free and Open Source software (FOSS)” email client tool for managing your emails, new feeds and new mailing groups. This mail client tool will help you to access and store your emails in multiple devices. Generally to access your emails from the mail servers (like gmail, rediff or hotmail) you need an Internet connectivity, with this thunderbird email client you can configure email account to access your emails even when you are offline (without Internet connectivity) as well. Thunderbird is an powerful email client tool with wide range of features like configuring multiple email accounts, filters, changing themes, add-ons and etc...
==== Basic information ====
{| class="wikitable"
|ICT Competency
|Thunderbird is a free and open-source software email client tool.
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|Version
|Latest version is 102
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|Other similar applications
|Kmail, Mailspring, Evaluation, etc...
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|The application on mobiles and tablets
|Thunderbird is not available on smartphones. There are some other apps available for smartphones such as K-9 mail, Blue Mail, Spark Email, Clean-fox etc
|-
|Development and community help
|<nowiki>https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/</nowiki>
|}
==== Overview of Features ====
Thunderbird is an email client, which does the usual functions of mailing – receiving, sending and storing emails. Mails can be stored in folders and sub folders to categorize mails based on subjects or senders or time periods or a combination of these. Files can be attached and shared with others. Emails can be searched easily by providing information on different elements such as sender, receiver, date etc. Mail ids can be connected to form ‘mailing-lists’ (such as google groups), by which, mail sent to the list id will be sent to all members of the group, this is ideal to create ‘professional learning communities’ of teachers with a common interest or need. Thunderbird consider one of the powerful tool to manage multiple email accounts and emails include accessing feeds and public channels. The application helps you to manage your office email account (s) to in one place to manage your work and organizing emails based on your priorities and projects.
====Installation====
===== For Ubuntu OS =====
# This application is included in Ubuntu and many other Linux-based operating systems.
# If you cannot find this tool on your Ubuntu computer, you can install the app using the terminal by following these steps:
## Open the terminal by clicking on Applications/Menu → System Tools → Terminal (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T).
## Type the following command in the terminal window: sudo apt install thunderbird
## Press the Enter key on your keyboard. To initiate the installation process, you will be prompted to enter your system administrator password (no text will appear as you type it).
## Press the Enter key again to start the installation process.
===== For Windows OS =====
To download Thunderbird for Windows OS, please follow these instructions:
1. Visit the official Thunderbird website by clicking here.
2. On the website, locate the "Free Download" button and click on it.
3. After the download is complete, navigate to the location where the file was saved. Double-click on the downloaded file to initiate the installation process.
4. Follow the on-screen prompts:
◦ When prompted to select a location, click on "Next".
◦ If asked to choose a layout type, select your preferred option and click on "Next".
5. Once the installation process is finished, you will see a "Done" or "Finish" button. Click on it to complete the installation.
===== For MAC OS =====
To download Thunderbird for mac OS from the official website, please follow these instructions:
1. Click here to visit the official Thunderbird website.
2. On the website, locate and click on the "Free Download" button.
3. After the download is complete, locate the downloaded file and open it.
4. Drag the Thunderbird application icon to your "Applications" folder to install it.
5. Once the installation is complete, navigate to your "Applications" folder and open the Thunderbird application.
6. Follow the on-screen prompts:
◦ When asked to select a location, click on "Next".
◦ If prompted to choose a layout type, select your preferred option and click on "Next".
7. Once the installation is done, a "Done" or "Finish" button will appear. Click on it to complete the installation process.
===== For Smart phones =====
1. For Android phones, please follow these instructions:
1. Unfortunately, Thunderbird is not available for phones.
2. However, you can use an alternative mobile-based FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) tool called K9 on your phone.
3. Click here to download and install K9 on your phone.
Note: Please note that K9 is not available for iOS devices. iOS users can install the BlueMail app (which is not FOSS) instead.
=== Working with the Application ===
After installing the application on your computer, you can open it by following these steps on ubuntu:
1. Navigate to the "Applications" menu on your computer.
2. Go to the "Internet" category and look for either "Thunderbird" or "Mozilla Thunderbird".
3. Click on the Thunderbird/Mozilla Thunderbird option to open the application.
Windows user can search the Thunderbird application from the application list.
To begin using Thunderbird, you need to configure your email account(s) by providing your email ID and password.
