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Posted: 12 June 2006 at 12:37am |
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Anyone here use Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 or other? Was thinking of using it instead of outlook, good/bad decision?
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Posted: 12 June 2006 at 12:43am |
Ive been using it for years now, 1000000 times better than Outlook! Plus the spam filters in Thunderbird rock... never had a false email get through and it picks up 99% of spam emails. Oh ya, if your a really big nerd (like me) you can download a extension for it to make it run the systemtray so you know within seconds of getting new emails 
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Posted: 12 June 2006 at 12:49am |
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Used to outlook so is there a big difference in how you configure and use it?
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Posted: 12 June 2006 at 12:53am |
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Its pretty similar... its free so download it and try it out.
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Posted: 14 June 2006 at 11:16pm |
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Yes I think Firebird is great for private use, but seriously lacks the features of FULL OUTLOOK, like calendaring and being able to work with Microsoft Exchange. Also the problem is that most of the PDA's etc dont synch the calendar and contacts with anything else other than MS Outlook or Express.
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Posted: 15 June 2006 at 4:42pm |
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Calendaring is available with Mozilla Sunbird which can also be installed as a thunderbird extension.
Exchange integration is obviously not going to be easy as it isn't a microsoft product but I believe there may be some unoffical support.
There may be sync stuff for non Windows PDAs although I have yet to see a useful PDA
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Posted: 15 June 2006 at 5:18pm |
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I had a Palm Treo until my wife broke her phone and needed to borrow it. I'll never get it back. She does all her calendaring and notetaking on it and syncs with her work and home pc. Keeps about 4K contacts in it. Uses IMAP mail client - which is the only way to go for mobile email. Gets email on the pda automatically before it hits her pc - mail is pushed to it, it doesn't need to pull. Handles MS Word, excel, and pdf's... yada... yada... yada. She could get along for a while without her pc, but not without her treo.
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Posted: 15 June 2006 at 5:45pm |
I've been using Thunderbird for about 2 years and find it great the spam filer is the best I have used. However, I now have a Windows 2003 Small Business Server, which has MS exchange server, MS sharepoint, Outlook web edition, remote workplace, etc, which Outlook integrates with to share contacts, calendars, and work remotely, so Thunderbird will have to regratefully be retired. 
Edited by -boRg- - 15 June 2006 at 5:46pm
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