Mozilla Thunderbird

[Adam]

ive installed this tonight just to see what it is like and first impressions things are looking good.

nice interface and runs as smooth as firefox really.

any one used this for a long while

 

[LegoHead]

I use firefox, but find it crashes all the time, especially pressing the back button too quickly.

 

[Adam]

hmm firefox hasnt crashed on me yet.

have you used thunderbird

 

[LegoHead]

no, but just realised i was using an old version of firefox, updated now, so fingers crossed, no more crashing.

 

[Adam]

yeah 2.0 is a great version

 

[Daz]

Used Thunderbird for Windows for a year or so now.. wouldn't use anything else

 

[Adam]

good to hear. just to check aswell there is no way of adding to the toolbar like outlook so when minimized he goes to the notification area.

 

[f0xy]

Used Thunderbird for Windows for a year or so now.. wouldn't use anything else

yep. used for a year or more too, over 12k emails in tons of different folders... still very fast at searching and stability is spot on :approve:

EDIT: biff - yeah, i think thers a plugin to allow you to minimize to tray...

 

[LegoHead]

might have a look at thunderbird....

 

[LegoHead]

Is it easy to transfer all my settings from outlook express?

 

[Adam]

cheers foxy...

do you know for certain or.... if so can you point me in the right direction

 

[Adam]

Is it easy to transfer all my settings from outlook express?

yeah does it automatically.


what types of accounts do you have.

pop or imap or both

 

[f0xy]

yeah: http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/

 

[Adam]

great mate thanks.
works great

now got no reason to go back to outlook

 

[LegoHead]

Is it easy to transfer all my settings from outlook express?

yeah does it automatically.


what types of accounts do you have.

pop or imap or both

got gmail, yahoo, hotmail, uni account, ..... think they are all imap.

 

[Adam]

should be fine then mate.
give it a blast

 

[Darren S]

I use Thunderbird at home. There are some features of OE I prefer, but as an overall package (and free!) - T-Bird takes some beating....

D.

 

[Adam]

good stuff

 

[Adam]

does any one know how to remove that little window that appears when sending an email. cheers

 

[Tyson-182]

What does this Mozilla T-Bird do?

Tyson.

 

[Adam]

its basically outlook but with alot less error and crashes

 

[Adam]

anyone know how to remove the status box when sending emails???

 

[Adam]

any 1?

 

[LadySarah]

I've used thunderbird for over a year now, what do you mean status box?

 

[sn00p]

Its MAPI interface is w**k though, it doesn't cache attachments at the point of you saying "send" which it should do. That one caught me out.

 

[Adam]

when you send an email a little box pops up and it has got a status bar saying connecting to smpt server. i want to get rid of that

 

[LadySarah]

OMG thats really annoying me now! I've just sent like 5 'test' emails trying to solve this. I've always had the little box come up, but never thought any different...

Mmmmmm.......

 

[Adam]

lol... it is abit anoying aint it as you should just be able to turn it off.

its like outlooks diolog box which u can turn off

 

[LadySarah]

I haven't used Outlook for years, so wouldn't have made the comparison. I'm going to keep trying now you've got me started! Let me know if you solve it

 

[Adam]

lol... ive only just switched and upto now everything is great apart from this anoying box lol

i will let you know if i solve it.

 

[Adam]

done it yes

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#beh_sendwindow

 

[172.com]

I don't think Thunderbird is 'enterprise-y' enough. Fine for home use, sometimes can crash on heavy loads @ work. Has gotten better in 1.5.0.6 though 1.5.0.5 was utter gash. Go over a few gb in thunderbird and it loses the plot.