Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 21, 2006 04:05 AM
I've been using Thunderbird for some years. I've been told when I started that KMail was a better choice, but I had an agenda: I wanted to make sure a free mail client would be available at work, where the PHB forces Windows on a whim.
Problems I faced: - as the article states, migrating from Outlook to Thunderbird is hard: I had to configure Outlook to be my default mail program, get all my mail files from the network, make them available in Outlook and then import them with Thunderbird. - Being free software, one would expect Thunderbird to easily export back data to Outlook (this is necessary, because a colleague might not like the program and want to go back to Outlook); this is not so, which makes Thundebird a harder sell; - Speed: Thunderbird has a slow message search (the one invoked from a right-click menu option)... it was bad when I had a slow PC and it ain't got any better with my current Flintstones machine...
Other than that is a pretty nice program. Particularly useful is the good LDAP integration, which allows for easier email addressing.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 21, 2006 04:05 AMProblems I faced:
- as the article states, migrating from Outlook to Thunderbird is hard: I had to configure Outlook to be my default mail program, get all my mail files from the network, make them available in Outlook and then import them with Thunderbird.
- Being free software, one would expect Thunderbird to easily export back data to Outlook (this is necessary, because a colleague might not like the program and want to go back to Outlook); this is not so, which makes Thundebird a harder sell;
- Speed: Thunderbird has a slow message search (the one invoked from a right-click menu option)... it was bad when I had a slow PC and it ain't got any better with my current Flintstones machine...
Other than that is a pretty nice program. Particularly useful is the good LDAP integration, which allows for easier email addressing.
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