How do you read your eMails?

I am using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to check and reply to mail. Any how since it comes with Microsoft Office, I use it. Why unnecessarily install another software i.e. Thunderbird. In past I have used Thunderbird and I do feel it is a good software.

Mozilla is NOT abandoning Thunderbird. See here: http://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ As an open source project, it is open to anyone to take a project forward. Sometimes that may mean a fork or a split from an existing project which may mean that more resources are poured into the new project. It seems clear that this is what may be happening with Thunderbird. It may, indeed, become a new project (a nickname for it is "papercuts") or it may feed back into the Thunderbird project. The important thing is that Mozilla support innovation and are interested in and stand to benefit from new ideas.

It has been many years since I changed from reading my email with any kind of program that was on my computer. I always go to the site that has the email account whether it be my service provider or one of the three other sites where I have email accounts. I made the change because it became obvious that it was safer to do it this way. There is a much smaller chance of your computer becoming infected with some kind of virus sent by email if you read you emails at a site rather than loading them onto your computer. This does not mean that you should be careless about what emails you open. You should still delete any emails that are not from a source known to you and especially avoid ones that have misspellings, etc. in the subject line as this is a good indication that it is infected or of questionable purpose.