Mailbird Email Client: Bridging Language Barriers
We are super pumped to hear Satya Nadella stepping up as Microsoft's new CEO (and they haven't had many). We hope to see stronger support for improved productivity tools on the Windows platform. Just as Microsoft is a very international company, as you have maybe heard before, Mailbird team is an international team from Denmark, Indonesia, Colombia and USA.
We speak many different languages and are always seeking ways to improve productivity for people everywhere. Originally we were going to only develop Mailbird in English, but after we saw tons of requests and support for it in many different languages we decided to go for it. The first version of Mailbird with multi-language support has arrived thanks to all our loyal fans and contributors across the globe, you guys are the best. Bringing you the best email client for Windows. Did you know that even before the full multi-language support release, Mailbird already had spell check support for 11 languages, 12 if you count UK English as a separate language.
"I have tried a lot of email clients such as Thunderbird and many others. I got stuck with Roundcube webmail and then I read about Mailbird. It has a beautiful interface and works perfectly with IMAP. But the reason why I still use Mailbird is the conversation view which saves a lot of time searching for emails. Why I want to translate Mailbird? It's an awesome piece of software and I want to support it." - Lars Pech, German Translator and power user for MailbirdWe received lots of people who wanted to help the project by translating Mailbird voluntarily that was awesome. At first we thought to go with a translation service provider. Instead we thought it would be so much more valuable for us to be able to learn and engage with you, the users. Thank you for being just as pumped up as we are about Mailbird this year, and for being so willing to help make Mailbird available in your native language. The thing you don't realize about translation on both the website and in the software, there is a lot more stuff to translate than you would think. Every menu, tip, suggestion, name, error reporting pop-up, every field needs to be translated. The great part about having actual Mailbird users contribute to multi-language support, is that they are using the app. They know it very well and have be awesome with translating the software.
- English (source language)
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Swedish
- Italian
- Danish
- Dutch
- Bulgarian
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Open your Mailbird email client
- Click on the Mailbird drop down menu at the top left corner of the app window
- Click 'Options'
- Click the 'Advanced' tab
- At the bottom of the 'Advanced' tab select your 'Application language'
- Restart Mailbird
- Voila! Mailbird is now in your language of choice.
"From the days I first started using computers, emails have always been one of my main tools of communication and I always found it difficult and time consuming to constantly go through the browser every time to check if there's a new email. I've used Thunderbird, the default mail client in Windows and others not so popular programs but none of them was able to grab my eye and be my main email client for very long. All this changed the day I installed Mailbird. The simplicity of the app just grabbed me. The emails were the main focus (unlike some others) and everything was lined up perfectly. I was pleasantly surprised when I found the apps - from Mailbird I was able to visit my contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Evernote and other services, which further facilitated my work and saved me time. Altogether I don't think I'll be able to use other email client than that one. I'm sure you won't be as well, once you try it yourself."Since this is the first release of multi-language support, we are dedicated to continuously improving translations in different languages. We will continue to improve and translate every single word, sentence and paragraph to make Mailbird just as professional in other languages as it is in English. We welcome more people who'd like to help translate Mailbird. This is just the beginning to making Mailbird a truly global email solution on the Windows platform. We are truly excited about the opportunities here for current and new users, making Mailbird more and more accessible to people around the world. Want to support Mailbird in your native language? You can register to support language translation here: /donation/ and select "Translation Service" as the donation type. When the beta is over, as a big thank you, we are giving away Mailbird Pro free for life to our translators. We are also very excited that Windows announced bringing metro apps to the desktop, just goes to show that the desktop is still winning and an email client is the way to go for managing workload and productivity. We are getting better and better at bringing productivity to the world, and you can read more about how we are doing that with the awesomeness of Mailbird. At last, from our localization project manager Caro and the rest of the Mailbird team, thanks to everybody around the world working on this feature. Thank you for all the support and for helping us make Mailbird more available for users around the world. Want to learn about the international support for the best alternative email client for Windows and to see how Mailbird looks in different languages? Check out the internationalism of Mailbird below. Japanese http://goo.gl/vm09ii Spanish http://www.omicrono.com/2013/04/mailbird-gmail-en-tu-escritorio-con-todas-sus-funciones/ French http://www.viceup.com/actualite/alternative-a-thunderbird-et-outlook-client-mail-windows/ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyo1zb_freshnews-409-3-millions-pour-feedly-facebook-home-sur-htc-myst-mailbird-02-04-2013_tech
