Thunderbird is very security conscious as well. To protect your privacy, the application
will not load remote images in HTML-based messages unless you tell it to. Remote images
often contain web bugs that tell the sender you??™ve opened their message, confirming your
email address. The Junk filters are very good.
New features are added first to the standalone products and then are brought into the
SeaMonkey suite. If you prefer to have everything together, SeaMonkey Mail has all the
Thunderbird features mentioned previously.
Claws-Mail
This fast and powerful mail and news client (originally known as Claws) was written by a
Japanese programmer, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, with GTK+ for GNOME. Its clean interface is
easy to read, although you may want to adjust the spartan default Courier fonts (see
Figure 13.15).
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FIGURE 13.15 Claws-Mail??™s clean interface.
Claws-Mail has powerful filters, but the dialog boxes to create them are better suited for
the technically adept. The same can be said for the other configuration dialog boxes.
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