rickysnickers
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Hey, any of you guys use this? I was wondering how well or not well well it worked. Any input?
Thanks,
Rick
Thanks,
Rick
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OhioFJR1300
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been using it for a few months. Works well, so far no problems.
FjrVfr
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I've been using it for years (didn't it used to be MozillaMail?). Great stuff. Also, if you have to work on both Linux and Windoz machines you don't have to re-wire your brain every time.
dcarver
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dadadadada ThunderTurd!~
Actually, it works good..
Actually, it works good..
drjfjr
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Been using it for several years. I even added the calendar portion.
johnny80s
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jzzmusician
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Been using Firefox and Thunderbird for years. No problems. None. Nada. Zilch.
bob
bob
happyPuppy
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2 problems not related to Thunderbird but to Outlook which 90% of the world seems to use
1. Meeting requests from outlook , they come up as some undecipherable attachment
2. I have had issues with Vcards. I don't know if it outlook, or the contact manager can't read them.
I despise Outlook and its proprietary way of doing everything PST files, calendar requests and forwarded meetings. The only reason it exists is to drive people insane.
1. Meeting requests from outlook , they come up as some undecipherable attachment
2. I have had issues with Vcards. I don't know if it outlook, or the contact manager can't read them.
I despise Outlook and its proprietary way of doing everything PST files, calendar requests and forwarded meetings. The only reason it exists is to drive people insane.
Tbird
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I use it at home and at work.
I work for the National Weather Service and we (the agency) made it our default mail browser.
Works well for us!!!
I work for the National Weather Service and we (the agency) made it our default mail browser.
Works well for us!!!
Tenchi
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I used it for a while.
The filtering system is not the greatest. I wanted to set up a complex set of filters to handle some RSS feeds, and it sucked very badly; it applied some of the filters but not others, and it partially applied other filters. Filters were also order specific... look, the filtering system just sucked balls. Outlook actually has the filters pretty downpat.
That being said, actually handling emails - works great. I've never had a problem with it. Between Thunderbird and Outlook, in terms of pure functionality neither one has any distinct advantage over the other. They both allow you to check your mail. They both allow you to read your mail. They both allow you to send mail, and have address book functionality. Thunderbird does have one SIGNIFICANT, and I really mean significant, advantage over Outlook 2007 though.
If your PST file gets exceedingly large in outlook, e.g. you have over 1 gb of mail, and outlook crashes for whatever reason, you can lose those emails because Outlook needs to close that PST file carefully. It's essentially an open file handle for the entire time you're using Outlook. This basically means if Outlook crashes, you not only stand a good chance of losing all your emails not stored on the server, but it also takes forever to check the file (up to 15 minutes), in which time it will be hammering your CPU and hard drive, aka bringing your entire windows system to a grinding halt. Sure, you can just delete your old emails or archive them... but I have a lot of emails from when I first started as a new hire at work that I can't delete, little tricks of the trade that aren't written down anywhere, etc. so archiving them would cause me much pain...
EDIT: at work I use Outlook, because it integrates with my phone and Exchange. At home however I use something called PopPeeper, which is an extremely light weight client for checking emails. I think it's a matter of kB instead of MB in terms of on-disk space. It's absolutely terrible for features - it has check mail, delete mail, and if you choose that setting, send mail, but there's no viruses out there that can attack it because it's so backwards, and for bulk email accounts and processing emails quickly it's great (starts up in less than a second, allows me to save all settings to a file, does the job and NOTHING MORE). The memory hit is extremely low so I prefer to keep this open compared to Outlook 2007.
The filtering system is not the greatest. I wanted to set up a complex set of filters to handle some RSS feeds, and it sucked very badly; it applied some of the filters but not others, and it partially applied other filters. Filters were also order specific... look, the filtering system just sucked balls. Outlook actually has the filters pretty downpat.
That being said, actually handling emails - works great. I've never had a problem with it. Between Thunderbird and Outlook, in terms of pure functionality neither one has any distinct advantage over the other. They both allow you to check your mail. They both allow you to read your mail. They both allow you to send mail, and have address book functionality. Thunderbird does have one SIGNIFICANT, and I really mean significant, advantage over Outlook 2007 though.
If your PST file gets exceedingly large in outlook, e.g. you have over 1 gb of mail, and outlook crashes for whatever reason, you can lose those emails because Outlook needs to close that PST file carefully. It's essentially an open file handle for the entire time you're using Outlook. This basically means if Outlook crashes, you not only stand a good chance of losing all your emails not stored on the server, but it also takes forever to check the file (up to 15 minutes), in which time it will be hammering your CPU and hard drive, aka bringing your entire windows system to a grinding halt. Sure, you can just delete your old emails or archive them... but I have a lot of emails from when I first started as a new hire at work that I can't delete, little tricks of the trade that aren't written down anywhere, etc. so archiving them would cause me much pain...
EDIT: at work I use Outlook, because it integrates with my phone and Exchange. At home however I use something called PopPeeper, which is an extremely light weight client for checking emails. I think it's a matter of kB instead of MB in terms of on-disk space. It's absolutely terrible for features - it has check mail, delete mail, and if you choose that setting, send mail, but there's no viruses out there that can attack it because it's so backwards, and for bulk email accounts and processing emails quickly it's great (starts up in less than a second, allows me to save all settings to a file, does the job and NOTHING MORE). The memory hit is extremely low so I prefer to keep this open compared to Outlook 2007.
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Been using Mozilla for years. Switched to Firefox and Thunderbird about 3 years ago and haven't looked back. Much better than Microsloth stuff.
rickysnickers
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Thanks a lot fellas!
Rick
Rick
ponyfool
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I love Thunderbird, and have used the calendar add-on, Lightning too, but Lightning nor the stand alone Sunbird sync with my Palm, which sucks.
