Comments on: Outlook Versus Thunderbird

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:43:32 +0000

Junk mail filtering is the selling point of Thunderbird. I get a very mere amount of junk mail, so this was not at all a reason for my conversion.

By: Harvey Tobkes

Harvey Tobkes — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:28:45 +0000

Well, I have not explored Thunderbird, but for me organizing, views, colorizing incoming messages and easy to use are all important. Now, if you can tell me that Thunderbird has an effective Junk Mail screener, I would be an instant convert.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:18:28 +0000

Scott, are you using all the correct SMTP settings? Are you enabling SSL? Do you authenticate with the server at all? Mozilla has sophisticated mail sending settings that should support and cover all protocols.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:15:52 +0000

Harvey, which features do you think Outlook has that Thunderbird might lack?

By: Scott Tobkes

Scott Tobkes — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:19:13 +0000

They sure made it easy to import from MS to be up and running immediately
just the fact that it is not MS makes me favor it
Is it less susceptible to targeted attacks as Netscape, Eudora or a Mac?
I’m going to give it a try …I like the drop down menus for sever accounts in the From field…and the auto-complete
The calendar reminder is definitely missed (for me)

thanks for the tip on this

now lets try the spell checker… Eye sea sum Miss steaks

Updateâ€¦Actually, I had a problem with the smtp setting.

By: Harvey Tobkes

Harvey Tobkes — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:27:26 +0000

I do not doubt that Thuderbird has good features, but if people really knew how to use Outlook to the full extent of all the options available, I think they would be perfectly happy and reluctant to switch.