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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> John Schinnerer wrote:
>
>
> > > -Also, I’d Love to change my email client.  Lawrence says to use
> > > Mozilla.
> > > Or should I try Thunderbird?
> >
> >
> > Thunderbird is simply the spinoff/stand-alone mail client derived from
> > Mozilla mail.
> > Mozilla is the "whole bundle" of web browser, e-mail client, and a few
> > other goodies.
> > Firefox is likewise the spinoff/stand-alone web browser derived from
> > Mozilla browser.
>
>
> And so, Mozilla is an excellent choice as it does the web, email and 
> newsgroups and does them all well, fail-safe and reliable - easy to 
> configure and back up (aand restore).
>
> You get one file to install (for Mac):
> mozilla-mac-1.7.11.dmg            13,931KB
> downloadable at this location:
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

There are two choices FireFox + Thunderbird or Mozilla whilst they are 
similar it should be noted that
        Mozilla  is not identical to FireFox and ThunderBird

From http://www.mozilla.org/products/choosing-products.html
>>>
We suggest Mozilla 1.7 if you are looking for an all-in-one solution 
when using the Internet.  Large organizations that require an integrated 
suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving towards 
Mozilla 1.7. All others should consider upgrading to Firefox and 
Thunderbird.
>>>

I'd suggest Firefox and Thunderbird for a few reasons
1) There seems to be more active development of these
2) They run as two seperate programs, if one crashes the other will 
still run, so you don't loose emails your composing if you hit a bad 
website.
3) There are more extensions and add ons for FF+TB, these add extra 
functionality

End of the day these differences are small, either solution is fine.

Rich