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Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program

05 Feb 04 - 09:02 PM (#1110373)
Subject: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email porgram
From: katlaughing

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

Thanks!


05 Feb 04 - 09:06 PM (#1110375)
Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email porgram
From: The Fooles Troupe

European Pogroms were pretty nasty things...


05 Feb 04 - 10:59 PM (#1110442)
Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email porgram
From: Stilly River Sage

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


06 Feb 04 - 12:16 AM (#1110474)
Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: katlaughing

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.:-)


06 Feb 04 - 11:50 AM (#1110792)
Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bill D

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*)


06 Feb 04 - 12:12 PM (#1110811)
Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bill D

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)


06 Feb 04 - 02:27 PM (#1110880)
Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bo Vandenberg

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


06 Feb 04 - 04:34 PM (#1110964)
Subject: RE: Tech: Mozilla's Thunderbird email program
From: Bill D

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.)