Thunderbird 2 or Outlook??

[Phoenix]

Ok, i've been using outlook at home for a while now, but to be honest, i'm sick of it and it's crap.

So, is thunderbird ok and worth the effort to switch over to, or should I just relent with outlook and maybe upgrade to 2003 (I have 2000)

[incisor]

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[p38arover]

What's wrong with Outlook? I've been using it for more than 12 years at home and at work. It syncs with my PDA, too.

[Utemad]

I'm not an Outlook fan either. Use it at work because we have to.

I use Eudora which I think is great but although you can still get it they aren't going to upgrade it/work on it anymore.

Was thinking about going to Thunderbird as I like Firefox but have never looked into it.

[duncanw]

If you hate freedom then go for Outlook.

Thunderbird uses a better system called Mbox to store emails, basically means that all you need to do is zip up the folder and you have a backup of your emails that you can take to any other email client.

[p38arover]

I did a quick Google and found BirdieSync will sync the PDA to Thunderbird. See How to sync your Pocket PC with Thunderbird - Mobile Minute - Download Squad (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02/26/how-to-sync-your-pocket-pc-with-thunderbird-mobile-minute/)

[29dinosaur]

I use thunderbird and love it. But then again I mostly use gmail and gmail calendar. With gmail you can IMAP (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en_GB&ctx=mail&answer=75725) it to thunderbird.

[Phoenix]

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buy something decent ya tightarse...

:p

It was more a contemplative question than anything after reading a couple of things about thunderbird 3 which is due soon.

[Roadrunner]

I'm using thunderbid for years and no problems at all. I have heaps of email accounts some imap some pop and tenthousands of emails in it. It is also very easy if you move it to a new computer.Copy your store dir and off you go. It runs on all my 7 computers :D

Matt

[rick130]

I've run Thunderbird for years after Outlook crapped itself big time but I'm a tightarse :p

[incisor]

mbox is fine till it corrupts, then you get to play with a 7bit ascii text file with a multitude of encoded attachments...

i have a macro for ultraedit to rebuild them as some of the more popular anti virus products have a ball corrupting or deleting them and we get people in wanting us to help them recover some long lost super important email. i just love the backup lecture... some learn, some dont :p

best thing about thunderbird is it copes well with opening outlook express data that neither of the outlook programs will cope with at times....

[loanrangie]

No contest - Tbird, say no to micro shaft and yes to open source :p.

[HangOver]

unless you need to calendar, notes, tasks etc in outlook, go for outlook express, it's free and has a smaller footprint.

As far as either outlook or thunderbird crashing and burning well if you don't have a back up, more fool you. ;)