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What do you know about Thunderbird?

I've never used Thunderbird, but I was wondering if it would be worth switching to. What has been everyone's (anyone's) experience with it, and how does it rate compared to other email clients?

(Should I be looking at Macworld.com instead?)

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It's really not too shabby,...

It's really not too shabby, but much like Firefox, it feels more at home on Windows than it does on Mac OS X.

I still use Mail, but I keep a copy of Thunderbird around for certain things that it does better. Try deleting or moving a few hundred emails on an IMAP server with both Mail and TB, for example. Mail gives you time to go out, maybe get some coffee, read the paper...

 
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