What you need: Mozilla Thunderbird Time required: One hour
Thunderbird has just been updated – and we like what we see. Version 115 of the free email client, which you can download from www.snipca.com/47173, has a fresh new look and logo (pictured above right).
The tabs of its old interface are still there, but you can hide them if you only have one component open. There’s also a column of icons that switch between email, calendar, address book and more; a handy search box in the title bar; and a discreet menu that saves you picking your way through the full menu bar.
It’s not just redesign for design’s sake, though, as there are other changes that will make an appreciable difference to the way you manage your email. Chief among them is the new tags filter, which lets you more quickly identify particular messages.
Say, for example, you want to tag every security alert you receive as ‘Important’. You can apply that particular tag to a message simply by pressing 1 when the message is open. You can
