Spicebird: A Modern Thunderbird Remix

“Take Thunderbird, mix liberally with calendaring, instant
messaging, and release it on Linux and Windows. What do you get?
Spicebird, a collaboration client that remixes Thunderbird to bring
the creaking mail client up to date for today’s users.

“Spicebird has been in the works for some time, but the 0.8
release is finally ready for a wider audience. To see if it’s ready
for everyday use, I downloaded Spicebird 0.8 a week ago and started
testing.

“Spicebird Setup and Use

“Spicebird requires very little setup on Linux. Just grab the
tarball, uncompress it, and run spicebird. That’s really all there
is to it. Since Spicebird is based on Thunderbird 3.x, you’ll see
no difference in setting up mail here. Like Thunderbird, Spicebird
is great at setting up “standard” email accounts like Gmail —
plug in your email address and password and it’ll likely figure out
your account details (POP3 vs. IMAP, SSL or not, etc.) on its
own.”

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