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
I have trouble getting many people to switch to TB even though they quickly took up FF. The things keeping back these people I know that are now using FF + Outlook are:
1) Buttons work differently, such as the delete button doesn't also close the message if you opened the message in a new Window (These type of problems are solvable with the Buttons! extension)
2) The context menu for Copy To and Move To is very annoying for them to use since they typically have 100s of folders nested across their accounts, and they can't seem to find the folder they want fast enough, where as Outlook will just pop up a little window with a folder tree for Copy/Move operations.
3) The address book contacts editor has most of the useful information on the first tab, but the Company Title and Notes section are on the 2nd and 3rd tab, and users find it annoying to have to use these extra tabs for such common pieces of information, when all the other stuff on the 2nd and 3rd tab is unused. Somehow, they wan't those two fields duplicated onto the main tab for the contacts editor.
4) Having to open the address book in a new window, and the contacts sidebar tab really doesn't help anybody I suggested it to here. Users really seem to wait a contacts folder in their folder list to see the list of contacts.
5) The contacts list is not easily sortable like Outlook and blank fields seem to sort above A forcing them to sort Z-A and scroll down to find the stuff in the middle. I guess they just want A-Z sorting to put blanks after Z.
No, I don't post a lot to bugzilla because searching to find if its been reported already is way too hard, and I don't want to waste time posting dup bugs.
1. a) Double click on message to open in new window b1) click on delete in window deletes that message and opens the next message b2) go to message list and delete message in open window -- the window closes and the message is deleted
2. Valid point. a) I suggest you work in the 3-pane view so that you can drag and drop the messages in the tree on the left.
3. It would be hard to search for that one, and would need some time to come up with a good bug report.
4. What exact functi
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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:5, Informative)
1) Buttons work differently, such as the delete button doesn't also close the message if you opened the message in a new Window (These type of problems are solvable with the Buttons! extension)
2) The context menu for Copy To and Move To is very annoying for them to use since they typically have 100s of folders nested across their accounts, and they can't seem to find the folder they want fast enough, where as Outlook will just pop up a little window with a folder tree for Copy/Move operations.
3) The address book contacts editor has most of the useful information on the first tab, but the Company Title and Notes section are on the 2nd and 3rd tab, and users find it annoying to have to use these extra tabs for such common pieces of information, when all the other stuff on the 2nd and 3rd tab is unused. Somehow, they wan't those two fields duplicated onto the main tab for the contacts editor.
4) Having to open the address book in a new window, and the contacts sidebar tab really doesn't help anybody I suggested it to here. Users really seem to wait a contacts folder in their folder list to see the list of contacts.
5) The contacts list is not easily sortable like Outlook and blank fields seem to sort above A forcing them to sort Z-A and scroll down to find the stuff in the middle. I guess they just want A-Z sorting to put blanks after Z.
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:2)
Also, the calendar issues too:
6) Nobody wants to leave the calendar window open in order to get alerts.
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:2)
If so, please post links because I'm interested in each of these issues.
Thanks.
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:2)
No, I don't post a lot to bugzilla because searching to find if its been reported already is way too hard, and I don't want to waste time posting dup bugs.
Re:Question for the Outlook "switchers" (Score:2)
1.
a) Double click on message to open in new window
b1) click on delete in window deletes that message and opens the next message
b2) go to message list and delete message in open window -- the window closes and the message is deleted
2. Valid point.
a) I suggest you work in the 3-pane view so that you can drag and drop the messages in the tree on the left.
3.
It would be hard to search for that one, and would need some time to come up with a good bug report.
4.
What exact functi