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#1 2009-02-02 2:36 pm
- sturner
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Moving to Thunderbird
I finally found a version of Thunderbird that is mature enough to make me happy. I checked it out when it first came out and flirted with it a bit, but it was always difficult to get to work on my system with various email accounts. And I didn't like the interface.
I've been using Eudora since version 3 and when it was orphaned and given to Mozilla/Thunderbird I was upset since it didn't have the full interface and feature conversion I wanted.
Thunderbird version 2.0.0.19 seems to have answered my needs and expectations. It's clean, mimics the features and interface (mostly) of Eudora, and I can get it to work with all of my email accounts.
Me is happy.
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#2 2009-02-02 2:44 pm
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Re: Moving to Thunderbird
Does it support the OS X address book yet?
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#3 2009-02-02 2:48 pm
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Re: Moving to Thunderbird
Macskeeball wrote:
Does it support the OS X address book yet?
not out of the box... not sure about add ons
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#4 2009-02-02 3:26 pm
Re: Moving to Thunderbird
sturner wrote:
I've been using Eudora since version 3 .
I'm sticking with Eudora. Neither Thunderbird/Penelope nor Odysseus are ready for prime time.
I do not want automatic OS X address book integration.
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#5 2009-02-02 3:40 pm
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Re: Moving to Thunderbird
Take a look at the new Thunderbird/Penelope. It has been cleaned up. I agree about Odysseus, it isn't ready yet.
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#6 2009-02-02 10:37 pm
- Aqua OS X
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Re: Moving to Thunderbird
Unfortunately, I need Exchange access, which means I'm stuck with Entourage, and Entourage is miserable. Searching for mail in Entourage is down right painful.
I can't wait for 10.6 and a version of mail.app that supports Exchange. That alone is worth the upgrade price for me.
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#7 2009-02-03 1:23 am
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Re: Moving to Thunderbird
sturner wrote:
Take a look at the new Thunderbird/Penelope. It has been cleaned up. I agree about Odysseus, it isn't ready yet.
If you want an older-style, fully-featured suite, there's Seamonkey. You might give that a try.
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#8 2009-02-03 6:07 am
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Re: Moving to Thunderbird
Aqua OS X wrote:
Unfortunately, I need Exchange access, which means I'm stuck with Entourage, and Entourage is miserable. Searching for mail in Entourage is down right painful.
I can't wait for 10.6 and a version of mail.app that supports Exchange. That alone is worth the upgrade price for me.
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