Geek opinion wanted, please: Thunderbird (mail client)

[Filipe M.]

Following vltn3's thread on IE7 which sort of resulted in some of us being reintroduced to Opera...

What's your opinion on Thunderbird, and do you recommend any other freeware alternative?

Thanks in advance!

[BabyJ]

Following vltn3's thread on IE7 which sort of resulted in some of us being reintroduced to Opera...

What's your opinion on ,Thunderbird and do you recommend any other freeware alternative?

Thanks in advance!

:smt017

I've Never been to an Opera in my life..... ! Thunderbird.... ?? Is it worth going to see??


:wink: :D


I'll get my coat...............!!

[shao]

I've replaced Outlook with thunderbird at home and at work, it's a personal preference thing but i dont like the interface to the recent MS apps (office 2003 suite). Thunderbird does what it says on the packet admirably, i havent had it crash on me and it's pretty good at filtering spam and blocking html in dodgy emails.

That said, if you use the Outlook calender, dont change for the time beong, the thnderbird option is an extension and nothing like as capable as the outlook calender. It's not gonna hurt to download and try it, so thats probably your best bet.

[Filipe M.]

Thanks for your answers so far (yes, that includes you, BabyJ!).

I'm thinking of setting it up on my home computer (currently a falling to pieces G4 Powerbook), I'm a bit fed up with Apple's Mail application, it's sloooowww. shao, I don't use the calendar function that much, so I guess that's taken care for... I'll give a shot.

[Baph]

I use Opera for Web/Mail stuff. Our company has an anti-MicroSoft approach to software (yet I'm typing away on a Windows 2000 Pro Dell), which results in OpenOffice instead of MS Office, and most people use FireFox / Thunderbird combination.

For the work I do, I spend a lot of time in a browser, or sending mails, so there's no point in closing either clients down, and my mail client is setup to check mails every 2mins (SLAs that mean if a customer query isn't at least looked at within 15mins of it arriving, we get shouted at). Due to this, I found quite a high level of memory leaks - or rather memory that wasn't efficiently used/freed with Firefox and Thunderbird. It wasn't unusual for me to have to end task Firefox every day with it running at over 330Mb RAM used. Thunderbird was better, but still needed killing every few days.

With Opera, I see non of those issues, it does both jobs, and never exceeds 40Mb RAM. Oh yea, and better news, Opera have done away with the dirty great big advert on top of the screen!

[Abyss]

I used firefox and Outlook 2003.

If i never had outlook 2003 i would be using Thunderbird since its 10000000% better than outlook express but just doesnt compare to 2003 IMO

[philipMac]

I use Evolution.

I am not really a mailer geek. I sort of just meddle with it now and again. It does exactly what it says on the tin. I am looking about... I am not sure if you can get a Microsoft version of it though.

The old man uses Thunderbird though, and has no issues with it AFAIK. Other than the muppet sys admin in his place saying that it couldnt possibly work for "Microsoft emails". Nutter.

Yeah. Scratch that. Doesnt seem to be a MS version...
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/