Thunderbird

Thunderbird is mail from mozilla it is esay to install on the xo

go to terminal and type

wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.1.9/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.1.9.tar.bz2

Note: 4/22/2010 - the address is correct, but the file is not correct;error 404 Note: 3/29/2011 - the file is corrected to most recent version. Previous versions are no longer available.

to install it type

tar -xjf thunderbird-3.1.9.tar.bz2

it will install into

/home/olpc/thunderbird

to start it type

./thunderbird/thunderbird

(just like firefox start)

Thunderbird can also be installed and run from the GNOME desktop interface.