Anyone use Thunderbird for their emails? (NLC)

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:50 pm

Rightly or wrongly I have just installed a legit copy of Vista Home Premium - I was beginning to struggle with my *cough* evaluation copy of XP Pro SP1.

As with all upgrades there are now a raft of things that I can no longer do that I was able to do before. Progress!

It seems that Windows Mail (replacement for Outlook Express) no longer allows you to access hotmail.com accounts. I find this as a real pain as I prefer to use Firefox and can't be @rsed with IE7 or Messenger.

Was looking at Thunderbird but haven't heard any reports about it whereas loads of people were raving about Firefox a couple of years ago.

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Ta

Stewart

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:58 pm

I use it and think it's ace!

Got a handy wee calendar plug in for it too.... so basically it's very similar to Outlook.

The junk mail filter on it is especially good at learning and keeping crap out my inbox!

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:07 pm

It reads mail - I don't know that it has hotmail integration but then again I would never attempt to use hotmail anyway

I use it at home and work as well as firefox and open office. My work machines are linux and my laptop at home is unfortunately still winxp - I'm planning to upgrade the laptop to linux is due course and I don't think I'll miss windows much

Cheers,
Robin

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:47 pm

yup it works. if you jsut want mail look no further. not too bloated either.

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:50 pm

"upgraded" my office pc to Vista.

Ranks among the daftest ideas i've had this year, and there have been a few contenders!

robin · Post by **robin** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:04 pm

Any good anagrams of "windows vista" yet? Or how about Windows Pista

I guess you only hear the horror stories, but there are many who have been left high and dry by vista - lack of driver support for basic stuff like printers is a pain, and then older apps not running, blah blah, heard it all before. At least with linux you can fix it yourself if it doesn't work and it matters enough ...

Cheers,
Robin

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:27 am

I've got a copy of Vista premium sitting in the office.... currently wondering whether or not to actually bother installing it.....

hmmm.....

Brunty · Post by **Brunty** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:32 am

Father-in-law-to-be has it on his Sony laptop and likes it. I'm also considering moving (can't consider it an upgrade) to it on my gaming PC, but I'm waiting for more feedback.

Thunderbird is ace btw. especially if you have an IMAP server

Thanks Chippy...

Brunty

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:12 pm

Brunty wrote: Thunderbird is ace btw. especially if you have an IMAP server

Brunty

And Outlook is not worth a toss when it comes to imap. Currently running both which is not funny nor pretty.

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Thu May 10, 2007 7:46 pm

Cheers guys, I'll give TB a go when I get a chance.
With regards to Vista, it was either buy XP home for basically the same price as Vista Home edition. I figured that there was no point in spending money on old "old" technology and went the vista route. I paid about £18 more for the Premium addition which has the aero function (gimmick) and media centre which is also pretty crap.
I run the racing sim GTR2 and would say that the performance is worse than XP Pro (evaluation edition

)
So Dave, I wouldn't bother at the moment same comment to Rich.

robin · Post by **robin** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:55 am

Windows2000 is your friend if you must use M$

Cheers,
Robin

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:05 pm

Hmmm.... using TB2 at the moment and 2000 emails have just 'disappeared' ....

any experts fancy helping me out before I stick my foot through my monitor???

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:28 pm

Just reload them from your nightly backups

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Apologies, that's no help at all. I did notice when I was transferring from Outlook that it did take a few minutes to load them all, so perhaps all is not lost.

You haven't done something simple like "Show only unread messages"?