Mozilla Thunderbird is a free of cost platform for clients having emails, managers

with personal information, clients working with news, RSS and chats and others
Mozilla Foundation has created. The strategy of this product was in reality modelled
after Mozilla Firefox web browser. Thunderbird V1 was published on December 7,
2004, and it received 500 thousand downloads in the first three days and one million
in the first ten days. On July 6, 2012, Mozilla declared that it was reducing the value
of Thunderbird development because it was largely futile to make strenuous efforts to
expand Thunderbird's features. If we talk about Enigmail, it is is an addon for Mozilla
Thunderbird which has seamlessly integrated security which allows openpgp to verify
message tuda crypt and to digitally sign your emails. Enigmail's digital built in library
can be used to provide crypto features allowing GnuPG authentication and encryption
features to access. It can also operate inline PGP and PGP/MIME compatible mail
clients. Mozilla also offered extended support release in their new development model
which proposed security and maintenance update while giving permission to the
people to have new features.
Thunderbird has features additionally available from extensions :-
1. Management of messages
It managers accounts of news feed multiple identities groups having news and
multiple emails. Quick search, advanced message filtering, saved search folders,
categorization and grouping of messages are just a few of the features that make it
easier to manage and find communications. Systems based on Linux mail account
related to system where promoted until version 91.0. the basic support that was
provided by Thunderbird for notification which was system specific and it was said
that it can be extended using an addon with advanced
2. Filtering of junks
A Bayesian spam filter vah incorporated by Thunderbird included an address book on
which whitelist was based and the people using it can understand the classification
based on server filters as spamassassin.
3. Standard support
Industrial standards which was followed by Thunderbird for the emails are POP,
IMAP, LDAP, S/MIME AND OPENPGP. Atom and RSS were also supported by it
for web feeds. Similarly IRC and xmpp protocols supported for chat. Also, the news
feeds was used by nntp and supported by nntps.
4. Themes and extensions
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addons which features an up to date functionality for extensions upgradation. To
change the over all look and feel a variety of themes were supported by thunderbird.
The ad on websites at Mozilla addons offered all the products of CSS and jpg files to
access it from there.
5. Big File Linking
Thunderbird 38 now supports the automatic linking of large files rather than
physically attaching them to emails.
6. File Format Supported
Plugins were used to support the format of mailbox provided by Thunderbird but the
related work was in progress hence this feature was not yet enabled. The mailbox
format was given support as of July 2014 were mbox which is an unix format of
mailbox which means many emails holded in one file and maildir which is also
known as maildir lite that means one email in one file but in August 2019 complaint
of bugs were high so they disabled it by default. Mork and mozstorage (SQLite based)
were used for basic informations. It was assumed to be discontinued and replaced by
moz storage in 3.0 version of Thunderbird but the 8.0 version of Thunderbird still
have it.
7. Limitations and known issues
The amount and size of files that could be shown were limited, just like on other
websites or software. As an example, the POP3 folder was susceptible to file system
design constraints, which showed maximum file size files on file systems without
having huge file support with valid limitations of long file names and other concerns.
8. HTML Formatting and Insertion of Code
Thunderbird's default message composition tool was a wysiwyg HTML-formatted
wysiwyg editor. The auto-direct feature of the delivery format will send unformatted
messages as plain text, which is controllable by user desire. Also available from the
format menu are special formatting options such as strike through, subscript, and
superscripts. The HTML menu insert option demonstrates the ability to edit a message
using HTML source code. HTML template messages were saved in a dedicated
template folder for each account I worked on.
9. Cross platform support
Thunderbird-enabled black phones of various types are available on the official
distribution site, which supports Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Unofficial ports such
as freeBSD and openBSD are also available. ArcaOS and eComStation are examples
of older versions of OS/2 boards. The source code is open source and may be
compiled to run on a variety of operating systems and architectures.
10. Localization and internationalization
With the support of people from all across the world, Thunderbird may now be
utilised in 65 languages via emails that are now confined to ASCII local sections.
Thunderbird, however, does not allow SMTPUTF8 or internationalisation feminine
addresses.
11. Security
Thunderbird's security features include TLS/SSL connections to IMAP and SMTP
servers, as well as in-built support for secure emails that use message encryption via
openPGP and digital signature or s/Mime utilising certificates. These security features
can be used to take use of the advantages of smart cards with the installation of
additional extensions. Other security elements can also be added by using an
extension. OpenPGP required the ENIGMAIL extension until version 68. Optional
security safeguards include blocking the loading of remote images within messages,
as well as permitting certain media files to be sanitised and deactivating JavaScript. It
is also utilised by the French military, who claim that it meets NATO's near
communications system requirements.
A holy new own subsidiary MZLA technologies corporation will run the project on
January 28th 2020 which was announced by Mozilla foundation in order to
investigate offering services and products that were previously unavailable, as well as
revenue collection through non-charitable donations and partnerships. Digital signs
are attached to your messages using OpenPGP and enigmail. If your private key is
used to sign a document attatched, a copy of your public key can be used to verify that
you sent it, and it is not tempered. If you have the correspondent's public key, you can
verify a digital signature at the same time. To generate their own pair of keys, each
user needs public key cryptography, which is provided by openPGP.
OBSERVATION
Considering the fact that receiving secure messages needs the capability to correlate
signed messages with public OpenPGP keys, Enigmail also permits you to import all
your contacts' public keys. To send encrypted communications, you'll want the public
key of the individual you are communicating with. in case you pick out to encrypt a
message with OpenPGP, you may be asked to pick your intended recipient's public
key through a pop-up window. most effective the holder of the complementary private
key can also read it as soon as it's been encrypted with a public key. Encrypting an e-
mail, in contrast to signing a message, necessitates the participation of each parties
inside the safety procedure. Users must also verify that the public key in a certificate
belongs to the person or entity claiming it through some means.
REFERENCES
1. Mozilla Thunderbird.wikipedia. Retrieved Feb 23-02-2022 from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird
2. Enigmail.wikipedia. Retrieved Feb 23-02-2022 from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigmail
OpenPGP.wikipedia. Retrieved Feb 23-02-2022 from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy