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Topic: Mozilla Thunderbird
Posted By: Amateur
Subject: Mozilla Thunderbird
Date Posted: 12 June 2006 at 12:37am
| 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 By: MadDog
Date Posted: 12 June 2006 at 12:43am
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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  ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Amateur
Date 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? |
Posted By: MadDog
Date 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 By: Tegwin
Date 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. |
Posted By: huwnet
Date 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 |
Posted By: dpyers
Date 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 By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 5:45pm
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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.  ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 6:46pm
Huw. I have a Sony Ericcson P910i and it is the most useful gadget I have EVER USED.. I can live with out my IPOD and others but not my P910i, it has all my contacts and appointments on it. I use it as the phone as well. |
huwnet wrote:Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 6:51pm
Yes sadly, there are not too many 3rd party email clients that can do what outlook does all in one and to talk to exchange, which I use all the time. I believe there is something in Linux that comes close but as of yet there is apparently no Windows port of it . Its called Evolution. |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 6:56pm
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i tried thunderbird, and i did really like it i however would like a better intergated calendar instead of usin an extention. i also would like to sync with my pda and mobile which only sync with outlook and like borg said - the anti-spam rocked, does outlook even HAVE antispam?  anyone know any decent solutions to get rid of spam? also, i could easily live without my mobile, and my pda, and my computer (though it'd be hard) but my mp3 player NEVER! (i gotta zen xtra 40gb) ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 15 June 2006 at 7:42pm
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Scotty, I use a product called SpamBully for Outlook and Express. It seems to do a pretty good job. Has a spam folder and and UNSURE folder, for messages it does not know about. There is also the option to add a Bounce button to manually bounce emails back to the sender.. It seems to work well. The site for spambully is www.spambully.com |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 16 June 2006 at 8:52am
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thanks, i'll try it out i had one before but it just did what outlook does, decideds spam based on the allowed/blocked lists which is useless in todays world of spammers fakin email addresses. ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 16 June 2006 at 1:28pm
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If you use outlook/outlook express with exchange or imap, make sure your anti-spam supports them. A lot of them only support pop3.
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 4:04pm
I use Thunderbird and like it. At the office, I use Outlook, and I  ing hate that piece of ! Outlook is the slowest ing piece of on the ing planet. I can't ing express just how much I ing loathe using that ware. I had to wait over 5 ing minutes to change folders today! Un-ing-real! Ok... rant over... My patience threshold doesn't extend past about 1 second with email clients... Thunderbird works and that's important to me. I don't need to wait for things. Ah... and thank-you Borg for that nice *censored* smiley  ~! I really needed that~! ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 5:19pm
I couldn't have said it better myself, i really couldn't have 
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:47pm
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dammit bluefrog... you're so wishy-washy. Take a stand. Usually if changing folders is slow, it's a problem connecting to netorked drives. Not really an outlook issue. You might try making the drive connections automatically at start-up. -------------
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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 10:06pm
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question: bluefrog, did you put the "censored" image in place of words, or just randomly click it
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 10:47pm
The Exchange server can be finicky at times - which drives me nuts - but the emails are stored locally. Then again, I've got folders with tens of thousands of emails, but it still shouldn't take that long. We've all done database stuff, and it should never take that long for a relatively small query like that. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 10:51pm
Not random at all. Each had a specific curse that I was muttering to myself.  But man, does it ever feel good! Really - It feels fan- ing-tastic! ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |