"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 21 August 2006 16:26 \__
Oliver Wong wrote:
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> Everything Outlook does, Thunderbird does as well (and much beyond
> that).
Not yet, but hopefully soon.
I beg to differ. As you are not using Thunderbird, I doubt you are
qualified
to argue so.
I do use Thunderbird. I use it everyday. I keep it running in the
background almost constantly, closing it only when its memory starts to leak
into the 128MB+ range (which usually is after I've left it running for 2
weeks or so, with the Japanese translation extensions enabled). I am
monitoring its progress. The statement "Everything Outlook does, Thunderbird
does as well (and much beyond that)." is false, as you admit in the very
next sentence.
With /extensions/, Thunderbird has all the functionality you
find in Outlook (the calendar and Exchange server might be an exception)
and
/more/.
I use the calendar system in Outlook extensively. Thunderbird does not
have calendars in it, and it never will as part of its core. I'm aware of
the extensions which adds some calendar support, but the extension is not
tightly integrated with the e-mail system yet. That is why I am looking
forward to the Lightning project.
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/index.html) However, the
Lightning project is still in very early beta (or is it alpha?)
This is why I make the claim that "Thunderbird does not yet do
everything Outlook does, but hopefully one day soon Lightning *will* do
everything Outlook does, and will do it better."
- Oliver
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