Thunderbird mail client
June 20th, 2007
I’m a big fan of the Firefox browser, it’s not that I’m anti Internet Explorer. Well not entirely anyway. I just prefer Firefox and feel that it’s a more intuitive browser, I’m under the impression it isn’t as resource hungry either but I could be very wrong about that.
At any rate I thought I’d take the whole Mozilla thing a little further and just downloaded and installed Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client. My first impressions are generally positive, it’s certainly different but I think that it could be a lot more flexible to use and I’m interested in exploring some of its features. I don’t know maybe it’s stupid to try an alternative mail program when I already own a copy of Outlook. Is there anyone out there who has experience with Thunderbird at all, I’d love to find out about your experiences!
***update*** I just posted more of my thoughts about this over at Blog About your Blog - go check it out there!
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I have been using Thunderbird and Outlook for ages. I use both because I have to type French emails. Thunderbird sends them through as gobbledygook and the people at the other end thought I’d gone mental. Outlook doesn’t have a problem with accents and so on for foreign languages. Outlook has the fancy stationery stuff too. You can do that in Thunderbird but not so easily. So, if you don’t want to write using accents and you are not worried about stationery, Thunderbird is really, really good. It doesn’t suffer from the problem of receiving infected emails because of the code. Outlook can be prone to that sort of exploitation.
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Thanks for your thoughts Beerli, so far Thunderbird has proven to be not too bad - I have several email accounts coming into at once and it downloads them a little strangely but I will get my head around when I read up a little more!
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I’m impressed how your reply is emailed to me with the link back here. That is pretty fancy. I have accounts linked into Thunderbird and it was pretty straight forward. Maybe it’s the servers of the original accounts? I get my work emails forwarded to Thunderbird and then another “freebie” web email. It’ll work out…especially with your clever tricks.
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