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Good review of Thunderbird and Firefox capabilities.

Thunderbird, an e-mail program developed by the Mozilla Foundation, is offering beleagured e-mail users an alternative, less virus-laden existence.

Following close on the heels of Firefox, the open-source Web browser whose launch included a full-page community-sponsored ad in the New York Times, the open-source e-mail program Thunderbird reached its 1.0 version recently.

Thunderbird has a clean interface that makes it easy to focus on mail. Thunderbird includes built-in filtering for junk mail, and it can encrypt messages (as long as the other party has support for the PGP encryption standard.) It is also not susceptible to most e-mail viruses, which target Microsoft Outlook's scripting features.

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