I use Outlook for my personal email, and I'm strongly considering changing my mail client. Other than the security benefits of not automatically running scripts when viewing messages, can anyone who has switched to Thunderbird tell me what other features make this client a preferred choice to Outlook?
I'll politely add that open-source isn't enough to compel me to change, nor is bayesian filtering (I already use SpamBayes).
Thanks for your help, and really, I'm not trying to fan any fl
There are a few reasons I use it for my home email:
1) Mouse gestures. I'm on a lot of mailing lists, and being able to specify common actions as a gesture (right-click & drag right to select the next unread message, for example) saves me a lot of time digging through lists like Full-Disclosure.
2) Message threading. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot to be able to group messages by thread (I think new versions of Outlook can do this, but my 2000 version can not).
3) The Baysean filtering is nice, but as you've mentioned, you already have that.
4) Themes. Yeah, it's trivial, but still...they're fun.
Thunderbird reaches version 0.9, and still you can't specify the "From" address of an email message.
Presumably it still creates a whole new folder structure for each and every email account you have?
And of course, there's the fascination with switching to HTML mode at every opportunity. In fact, all new email clients seem to be like this. Where's the button for "see no HTML, speak no HTML, think no HTML"?
Before I start, let me just say that I'm not using Thunderbird as my mail client yet. Because I don't like it yet! As such, I believe everything I've written below is correct, but it might not be 100%. Also, I haven't tried 0.9 yet, so my comments are based on 0.8.
Thunderbird reaches version 0.9, and still you can't specify the "From" address of an email message.
I believe you can specify "from"... however, you choose from the identities you've created for each account. Myself, I have a number of Newsgro
Thunderbird reaches version 0.9, and still you can't specify the "From" address of an email message.
Ummm...what? I do this all the time. In fact, I've done this in 0.8 as well. The only limit is you have to choose between the accounts you've defined for Thunderbird to get mail for. You can't just go choose some random address to source email from. If you want that, use another email client. I don't see that as a big deal.
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Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:5, Interesting)
I use Outlook for my personal email, and I'm strongly considering changing my mail client. Other than the security benefits of not automatically running scripts when viewing messages, can anyone who has switched to Thunderbird tell me what other features make this client a preferred choice to Outlook?
I'll politely add that open-source isn't enough to compel me to change, nor is bayesian filtering (I already use SpamBayes).
Thanks for your help, and really, I'm not trying to fan any fl
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:4, Informative)
1) Mouse gestures. I'm on a lot of mailing lists, and being able to specify common actions as a gesture (right-click & drag right to select the next unread message, for example) saves me a lot of time digging through lists like Full-Disclosure.
2) Message threading. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot to be able to group messages by thread (I think new versions of Outlook can do this, but my 2000 version can not).
3) The Baysean filtering is nice, but as you've mentioned, you already have that.
4) Themes. Yeah, it's trivial, but still...they're fun.
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:2)
Presumably it still creates a whole new folder structure for each and every email account you have?
And of course, there's the fascination with switching to HTML mode at every opportunity. In fact, all new email clients seem to be like this.
Where's the button for "see no HTML, speak no HTML, think no HTML"?
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:2)
Thunderbird reaches version 0.9, and still you can't specify the "From" address of an email message.
I believe you can specify "from"... however, you choose from the identities you've created for each account. Myself, I have a number of Newsgro
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:2)
Ummm...what? I do this all the time. In fact, I've done this in 0.8 as well. The only limit is you have to choose between the accounts you've defined for Thunderbird to get mail for. You can't just go choose some random address to source email from. If you want that, use another email client. I don't see that as a big deal.