Thunderbird
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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.