Journal Chacham's Journal: Question: Popular email program 4
A friend asked me how to change top-post/bottom-post in Thunderbird. He intentionally uses a strict white-listing ISP, so searching is difficult (and that is pretty much how he wants it). That ISP offers excellent service and support to those who want exactly that type of service. Nonetheless, the time comes when you have to ask someone else to find something out for you. A simple search finds the answer. Easy enough.
He responded:
Thank you! Whats the best email program to install? Nothing against Thunderbird but I heard that its not so popular. I once went to a Microcenter to transfer my emails to a different comp. They said that they have no experirence with it!
Popularity (and possibly good sense) aside, he simply wants a popular email program, one that he can go into a place like Microcenter and get support.
Personally, i use GMail. I would recommend that to him, but, it can be hard to allow only one of Google's services.
Any recommendation?
Thunderbird mail is Mbox standard (Score:2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox [wikipedia.org]
Easy transfer, easy backup, and a gazillion parser/import/export utilities. It is more standards based than most anything you'd care to replace it with:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mail_Utilities [mozillazine.org]
"Microcenter" are probably capable of .OST and .PST files - without a glance beyond the Microsoft franchise.
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Thanx for the comment.
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Yeah. The mbox stuff is super portable. If you want to bother....
With GOOD net connection, you can use IMAP to move your mail between clients - and providers.
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I'm aware of that. Or at least i should be. :)
Superiority aside, i want to answer his question, which indeed i did: Thunderbird is good, and they use a standard format. The guy at Microcenter was an idiot.