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8 months ago Avatar
Best of breed but not the best, yet

    by greyed

Thunderbird is one of those OSS projects which exemplifies one of the frustrations found with many OSS projects; it's almost there but isn't quite there yet. Thunderbird's core, reading, managing and sending email is top notch. It's POP/IMAP support is rock solid, it supports multiple mail accounts in a sensible manner and it offers several different mail reading paradigms that fit different reading habits well.

However in the years ... [More] since its inception some trivial features which are almost universally implemented in other email clients have remained outside the grasp of Thunderbird. Reply to List, I'm looking at you as the poster child.

Such functionality issues could be resolved through the plug-in architecture except the documentation to begin modifying Thunderbird is hopelessly mired in its Firefox roots. Finding documentation on modifying Thunderbird invariably leads to documentation on how to modify Firefox with Firefox examples and Firefox Addons and Firefox Tools.

I truly feel there is no client better than Thunderbird. However that is not to say that I could easily envision better. [Less]

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about 1 year ago Avatar
The best e-mail client around

  by dennis56

Compared to using outlook express, Mozilla Thunderbird is a dream, a dream come true. The easy interface, the good tools all anyone needs in an e-mail client...and more. This shows just what open source can do, with great management. Mozilla makes the best open source products.

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about 1 year ago Avatar
Dinosaurs are back in town...

    by cane

Thunderbird is a big-cumbersome leviathan that will suck tons of memory just to make you read some ASCII mail and news...
It has few bugs relatively to RSS feeds management and subscription; and it is by far less tidily designed than its Firefox companion.
However, it has some good points, such as: concentrating mail/news/feeds in one program and simple management of multiple accounts.

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