Does anyone use this for email? With each passing day, I find that I like Firefox more and more, and I was wondering if Thunderbird blows Outlook away like Firefox leaves IE in the dust.

Outlook is a little different, but yes Thunderbird is more solid than Outlook Express. As far as features and functionality, there isn't much difference between the two. They are both basic mail applications, one just works better.

I've been using it since 0.4 I think. 1.0 should be comin soon :RockOn:

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I use it...the junk filter works well.

I definitely like Thunderbird over Outlook Express, though MS Outlook has some better "organizantional" features over Thunderbird.

I've been using Thunderbird myself for some time now. The only thing missing imo is the "minimize to taskbar" thingie. I found that very useful when I was using Outlook.. Anyway, they might implement it in 1.0 :D

no, I use outlook 2003. which I don't really like as much as the previous version of outlook. But for personal email I prefer gmail.

i just use gmail. outlook at work. companys website doesnt like firefox :x

i just started using thunderbird couple weeks ago with my gmail account. had no problems, am really liking it so far. although i have not explored it thuroughly yet, will someday. woo :Cheerz:

-ddr

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^^ Asshat.

No really. That's what the duck says.

Is that the first asshat of the new begining?

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1.0 of Thunderbird has been out for almost as long as Firefox 1.0. I dropped Outlook in favor of Thunderbird quite awhile ago for 2 reasons; the built in spam filter and the fact that it gives you a different inbox for each mail account, rather then dumping all the mail into one inbox like Outlook. :Bingo:

I use Outlook and I get my Email in separated in boxes per account...maybe it?s like that in Outlook Express but Outlook sorts them.

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[quote=blkcrow]I dropped Outlook in favor of Thunderbird quite awhile ago for 2 reasons; the built in spam filter[/quote]

The Norton Anti Spam plugin works well in Outlook for me at least

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Outlook Express :Bingo:

Outlook = Virus Prison of the world.... every single virus ever created is sent to Outlook where they make a mess of everything... I've test driven Thunderbird for email and the way it functions (speed etc.) makes me think its extremely light on resources and feels solid too

-e-

I used to use THunderbird and it's great as a personal email program - but it's no match on the power and features of Outlook when it comes to working in big comercial organisations, Outlook is a complete life organisation system, whereas thunderbird is just an email program - a good one at that, but it depends what you're after.

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[quote=chemicalbeavis][quote=blkcrow]I dropped Outlook in favor of Thunderbird quite awhile ago for 2 reasons; the built in spam filter[/quote]

The Norton Anti Spam plugin works well in Outlook for me at least[/quote]

Yeah but you had to pay for that. Thunderbird has it built in.

And yes you can sort them in Outlook if you use a rule, but again Thunderbird does it it inherently.

I'm using Outlook with anti-spam plug-in from mcafee.. it works great for me, i've to check thunderbird anyway :)

CHEERS

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Downloading Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 now. The security functions like the spam fliter and the anti-phishing tool look pretty interesting. Pitty that it doesn't have an organizer on board though...

Ah well, Firefox rocks so I'm quite confident that Thunderbird will be good too.

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Been using this baby for a while.

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and?

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I'm still using it. Good piece of software.

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-5000 for resurrecting old posts......

+5000 for using thunderbird..... it's my right arm today.

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[quote=Kamal;432468]-5000 for resurrecting old posts......

+5000 for using thunderbird..... it's my right arm today.[/quote]Be happy that I did the effort to search for the thread instead of being a lazy bum and starting a new one :Tongue:

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Btw...

• 5000 for not having moved this thread to the computers forum.

• 5000 for the on topic feedback in this thread.

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^^this thread is so old, I'm not positive we even had a computers forum when it was started [B]almost two years ago[/B]. ;)

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MercuryEngine, imo...

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[quote=toasty;432487]^^this thread is so old, I'm not positive we even had a computers forum when it was started [B]almost two years ago[/B]. ;)[/quote]Dude, YOU are old! :p

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I switched from Eudora to TB because Qualcomm is stopping future development on Eudora and making it open source, not sure how that will pan out. And between the two, TB has been open-sourced from the beginning, I figured that has a better track record.

TB is a light and nimble piece of software though I do experience momentarily freezes, not sure why, maybe the program's trying to index the e-mails. The junk filter works surprisingly well even though I've read reviews to the contrary. TB gives you the option of viewing each e-mail account as seperate In boxes or dumping everything into a single In box btw.

The only thing about TB is I don't think its extension feature is fully exploited as FF's has been, which is a pity.

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can it be configured to download hotmail?

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not tried it, but if hotmail supports IMAP, then it should be doable yea

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Hotmail doesn't support IMAP, it uses some other protocol that I can't remember. But I've come across extensions that give you some functionality with Hotmail.

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[QUOTE=KinKyJ;432534]Dude, YOU are old! :p[/QUOTE]

Yep. Back in my day, we didn't have these fancy computer forums. We'd write messages in the dirt and have messengers orally transmit them to everyone in the group. Ah, those were the good ol' days.