So I love Firefox.  It is an absolutely awesome web browser.  Like so many others I was a long time user of IE (and still am on occasion) but I have been largely won over by Firefox.  I still have a few gripes with it but I’ll save those for a later day.  Oddly, Firefox for Windows seems to be more feature rich than Firefox for Linux.  I expect the opposite.

Anyway, I have used Thunerbird for Windows for a few clients I support (who don’t want or have access to Outlook).  If you are living in a world with Exchange on the backend and you’re on the LAN then Outlook has no substitute.  Thunderbird is good for POP3 and IMAP4.  It doesn’t have MAPI functionality that I know about.

Don’t bother going to www.getfirefox.com and downloading Thunderbird.  Their install instructions are absent or, at the very least, very well hidden.  No worries, though:  yum.

Open a terminal, type yum install thunderbird.  Done.