Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program

Subject: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email porgram
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 09:02 PM

Have any of you (BillD?) tried this? How would you rate it compared to Eudora?

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email porgram
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 09:06 PM

European Pogroms were pretty nasty things...

Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email porgram
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 10:59 PM

Looks like you're in charge of that research, Kat! Please report back!

Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 12:16 AM

Thanks, FoolesT for catching my typo; I've fixed it.

SRS, I think I'll hang back a bit and see if some of the techies have gone before.:-)

Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 11:50 AM

do you mean the email function already there in the Mozilla program? It's fine, I just prefer a standalone. You shouldn't need the separate Thunderbird program, I'd think...but they say this about it..

"Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite."

I presume it is a pretty good program by itself..(as you might guess, *I* don't exactly need another one..*grin*)

Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 12:12 PM

I will say that the email already within Mozilla seems to have a lot of configurable features. It looks quite good, so I suppose the Thunderbird program will be as good or better. (Takes a lot of browsing thru menus to get the full benefit, though...take time to explore)

Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bo Vandenberg
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 02:27 PM

In the older Mozilla I had no problem setting up a desktop shortcut to just the mail program. Has anyone managed to do that with 1.6?


Personally I love Mozilla but I'm going to stay away from Firebird until it is more popular. I bet it has a great future -- and thats when I'll use it. :)

Sigurd

Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Feb 04 - 04:34 PM

desktop shortcut? No..I don't know how that would be done, since it's an integrated program.
There's the menu at the top, there's an icon to check mail at the bottom left, and there's ctrl-2 as a hot key to open mail...If the browser is open, why would you want a desktop link? (I never even tried it with 1.1-1.5.)