Thunderbird

[Tormod]

I recently decided to ditch Outlook Express after our discussion about virus and spam problems a while back. I tried out Eudora but I had would have to pay to get a spamfilter so instead I installed Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 (Release Candidate 1).

And I must say I am positively impressed. The people behind Firefox are doing it again!

Download Thunderbird from http://www.mozilla.org/

Anyone else tried it yet? I think it is rather excellent.

[Aki]

I have it on my computer, but I never use it, but I heard it's really really good. It's safe at least.

[alexander]

Most if not all Mozilla products are excellent because there is a community of programmers behind it, i personally think that Mozilla is kicking Microsofts butt. I've hated Outlook ever since i first tried to use it, its so wrong for email, ugh... I've used The Bat (http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/) for a while, but sice i switched to Linux, Mutt is the way to go!

Noone should ever use microsoft products, with the only exception of OS for gaming. If i could edit the bible, i would write it in as a sin...(although i dont beleive in religion, i'd do it to help others)

[Freethinker]

I prefer Mad dog, or Wild Turkey for a serious party!

[Freethinker]

Oh, THAT Thunderbird! :-)

I have used and promote Mozilla's built in e-mail client. Perhaps they are similar with Thunderbird being the e-mail portion of Mozilla stripped out for stand alone use? We suggest it for clients not tied to something like Outlook or Notes.

I use Calypso however for my actual e-mail. It is now freeware last I checked.

[alexander]

Just use Mutt, there's Mutt for windows, http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/win32.html

Its not shiny, but pretty secure...

[Tormod]

Thunderbird 1.0 Final was released today.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

[FrankM]

I have Thunderbird as well as Firefox and am beginning to use them more often as I acquire familiarity with them. I use Eudora Pro and was able to "import" all my email addresses into Thunderbird, but it presents them in a different format. Have to send myself a few test emails to see how the different formats work.

[FrankM]

Found I didn't have the latest Thunderbird release (0.9) so downloaded 1.0 and installed it. The previous release didn't have the Junk Mail controls. It states it has an adaptive junk mail filter but one must mark both junk and non-junk mail for this process.

In Eudora I can print an email with or without the headers, but my first printout with Thunderbird printed the headers even though I was not displaying them. That wasted half a page. It might be in the header display options, will have to check that out.

At program startup, Eudora would automatically ask for every email account and automatically scan them for email at the set intervals. Thunderbird wants me to initiate each email account at startup rather than doing that automatically. That is either good or bad depending upon how one uses the accounts.

I was experimenting with different display formats and sent a test email to one of my other accounts. Before sending, a message stated the recipient wasn't marked for HTML. When setting up ones address book (in Properties), it has a box to that states,
Prefers to receive messages formatted as: [unknown] or [plain text] or [HTML]
If it isn't marked as HTML all the fancy formatting gets reduced to plain text.

Much to learn about Thunderbird before one can use it effectively.

[Freethinker]

People that use html for e-mail should be shot!