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- flippedcracker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21MinimizeToTray
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2110/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17This is awesome. I love Thunderbird. Much more secure than Outlook and other email clients I've used in the past.
I hope they'll have an option to dock it to the system tray. That'd make true background mail-checking much smoother.
That's the one thing that bothered me about Thunderbird, was that it had to take up space on my taskbar to check mail in the background. Hopefully they'll include it in 2.0, or if it's already existant in the current version, make it easier to find this option. - flippedcracker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13there's an extension that puts the current version in the systray.
- userundefine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@ paulieb13
Yes. It's called Lightning.
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2313/
(and for Linux users: yes, it *does* work on Linux. They're using some UA sniffer to detect and not give a download to Linux users. You can grab the .xpi on the mozillazine forums and install it -- I used it for quite a while without problem on Dapper.) - Spanktacular, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6All you have to do is go to Account Settings, and add another account.
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Your exchange server should support IMAP. Just use that.
What would you gain from Exchange support? Another program to suckle on Microsoft's tit? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5IMAP == integrated backup
If that's not good enough, get a copy co Mozy and back up your "Documents and Settings" or tar up your /home directory and auto ftp it each night. I don't see this as the function of a mail client.
Multiple SMTP servers has been there for some time and individual accounts can be assigned different servers.
Minimize to tray is already in as an extension. Look for it. I have to say that if you didn't find these in what was a very obvious place, you're not really looking and *sigh* they really weren't that important to you after all. - mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6There is support for multiple SMTP... it's been working just fine in 1.5.x.
What Thunderbird have you been using? - glafira, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Hmm never thought about Tabbed Messaging.
- paulieb13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I've officially scrapped Outlook, and will now use TB only!
Thanks userundefine, and teester - mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Thunderbird allows you to use it on any OS. We still live in a world with multiple OSes last I checked.
Good for you if you only ever have to touch only one. - dnthomps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is a pretty funny comment coming from a a software company that designs a mail client (and yes, I do use tbird).
From the FAQ on this page: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/2.0a1.html#faq
Q. Why haven't you responded to the mail I sent you?
A. Use the forums. The Thunderbird team reads them regularly. We all get a lot of email and your email may get lost.
Which is probably true. If you have over 3 or 4 thousand emails in an IMAP folder tbird doesn't handle it well. - rotten777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@mooninite
Wow obviously the wrong one LOL
I hear this rotten guy is a noob. - thrillho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This app is great (free and open source). It lets you minimize to tray, always on top, or add transparency to almost all windows: http://sysmenuext.sourceforge.net/
- chapium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Does the "what it was designed to do" matter if people are finding other uses for it? At the end of a day, its a mail client, as is Outlook (at least part of it). More and more mail are becoming integrated with things like calendars, distribution lists, etc.
Since there isn't really a good free substitute for Outlook in Windows (I guess you could count Evolution under Cygwin.. yuck), who's to say that this cannot be it? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Sync capability.
That's all I have to say about Thunderbird right now. - TrueVox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, Erik, I have no idea how to do what you want, but have you googled it?
What I'm really writing to say is: Welcome to Digg! I hope you enjoy your time here.... and then I read your time stamp, and realized this is REALLY REALLY ***** OLD.
I'm sorry. This is now pointless. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4And that's when I'll stop using what would then be an overbloated app.
- SlashNot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4thunderbird is great.
- TylerDurden0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't think you are adding the feeds correctly. It works fine for me.
- DanElHombre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I use rbtray on windows. It's a nice free app that can minimized almost any program to the tray.
http://rbtray.narod.ru/ - pcpimpster, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1hasbeen is correct, some rss feeds will not take in Thunderbird, even the latest version.
It seems it have something to do with the length of the url or format. Wrapped it in a short url and it worked. - KeinEngel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@willynilly: Copy the profile folder.
- knightnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0?? Invalid domain ??
- donte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Drop the whole elitist MS is crap and "how dare you use Exchange blah blah blah." Some crazy businesses actually like the convenience Exchange offers regardless of whether or not it sufficiently strokes the IT guy's ego. Not supporting it directly is still a deficiency in the program because that's what a lot of the email/calendar using world needs. It's a great program, don't get me wrong, but until it has those features it's still lacking what most people need.
Also, it's been a few versions ago, but I actually switched *back* to Outlook because I saw that Outlook consumed far less memory on my machine than Thunderbird did. Outlook was around 26M while Thunderbird was usually around 40M. If you're not going to give people some of the showstopper features they need, make the resource usage worth it. - LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I completely agree with D14BL0. I only recently started using Thunderbird as a Usenet client and its simply spectacular. I've also managed to get my mother to switch from Outlook (yuck) Express (double yuck) to Mozilla's amazing e-mail program. She's had a few problems adjusting, but she has now latched onto the extensibility features and security of Thunderbird.
- palmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It may be because of a failure to run keyword filters on body text AFTER decoding from HTML, as someone mentioned earlier. Anyone know?
- mitchmonmouth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish I could like Thunderbird, but as it stands, I'm addicted to IMAP and Thunderbird's IMAP support is just plain slow. I use both Mac and Windows, and only check mail on my Mac, since Mail.app is the only decent IMAP client I've found. I'd love to use Tb so I could use one client to rule them all, and have tried many many times for a long periods, but Tb IMAP is just too slow - it needs to update the interface immediately and queue actions, rather than waiting for a server response before updating the display.
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@DanElHombre I prefer DM2 over that
http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ - hap0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Just think groupware and "mission critical" (collaborative calendaring, tasks, projects, and contacts). Go with Bynari.net if you don't like Exchange, but you'll have to use a different client like Evolution or Entourage because Thunderbird still doesn't work for that yet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes!! Very much needed.
I would like to see tabs for selecting accounts, and within that tabs on the preview pane for reading and composed message panes. This would really make one able to use Tbird all from one window. - yaff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Some of us work in enviroments who "officially" no longer support IMAP. Our IT drones drunk the Exchange Kool-Aid. Luckily for me, they haven't actually shut the thing down, yet, but I fear the day.
In preparation for that event, I did find a nifty Java program that parses the Outlook Web Access service and serves it up as POP. This is my fallback plan:
http://mrpostman.sourceforge.net/ - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Thats odd, I catch about 99% of it.
- newhome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OK, I'm not sure whether this is the place for it or not, and I just found Digg.com today, but I am thoroughly confused by how I might transfer a current Distribution List from Microcrap Outlook to Thunderbird.
This seems to be the last step in my 12-Step program to switch off of the Matrix - er, I mean Outlook.
Anyone know how to do this without having to be a programmer?
Please use small words. I'm a new T-Bird user.
Erik
Danville, CA - paulieb13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I still use Outlook simply because ThunderBird doesn't have a calendar feature. I haven't done much research, but is there an extension or something to get a calendar in TB? I much rather use that than Outlook.
- aphextwin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I would like to see Open Office do a calendar and email program. I use Thunderbird and Sunbird right now as separate apps. I don't use lightning because I started with sunbird and kinda got used to it. I'm an ATM field service tech and I use sunbird to track calls. It's the best.
- hap0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Exchange support would mean access to a "groupware" server (shared calendars, projects, tasks, and contacts). Which are fairly critical for enterprise use. You don't like Exchange? Fine, go with the Bynari's groupware server (http://www.bynari.net), but you'll have to use something else besides Thunderbird (Evolution or Entourage?) to fully utilize it for more than IMAP or POP3.
- rishid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The feature set is still way too limited to be a 2.0 client. So many simple things are missing for instance right clicking an email and finding all emails from this sender. I mean come on this has been in Outlook for like a decade.
But I do enjoy the portability using Portable Thunderbird, available at link below.
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/email/portable_thunderbird - matthewconnelly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Thunderbird is probably the most useful program on my computer. Before it was a pain checking 5 different accounts, with 5 different providers on 5 different websites. Now I can just grab all my messages by opening the program.
The other great thing about Thunderbird is that it's easy to back up all your e-mails if you plan to re-install/change OS. You can simply just save a copy of your profile folder and it has everything in it, so when you re-install Thunderbird, you can just replace the default profile folder with your backup, and edit the profiles.ini file to match your folder name. The same goes for Firefox, got to love Mozilla! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Is there still no way to export filters? This giant flaw kills Thunderbird; what are you supposed to do, re-enter your entire set of filtering conditions on every computer you own?
And does it run keyword filters against message body text AFTER decoding it from HTML? Because Eudora idiotically doesn't, and therefore you can't filter messages by words contained in them. Spammers just insert meaningless HTML tags in the middle of any offending word, like Viagra. Does Thunderbird have this same design flaw? - hasbeen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2If RSS would work, that'd be great too. I still can't add feeds. I always get the error could not be found.
- spc2226, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3When Thunderbird supports Exchange servers, I will make the switch
- kingchad1989, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Another feature that I would like to see is an easier way to add extensions to Thunderbird without having to drag and drop. I know that it works, but still, it would take a minimal amount of design to come up with a better system.
- knightnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0paulieb13 - No there isn't, you can only sync the address book.
This is a MAJOR failing of ALL alternatives to Outlook. I'd love to be free of it for personal use (have to use it for work - no choice). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5What's this extension claled? I've been looking for one and never found it. Must've overlooked it or something.
- joatmon07734, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Have they upgraded the spam blocking yet? No matter how hard I try I can't get it to catch more than 20% of the total spam I get. Integrate gmail's spam blocking capabilities into TB and I'll be happy.
- jshabad00, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Why, oh why would anyone use Thunderbird on Linux? Evolution and Kontact (KMail) are years ahead.
And Lightning? Sunbird? PAHleazzzzzzzzzzze. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Which is where? Why should I have to copy an entire directory? And how are users to know this?
Thanks for the (partial) info, but this is not a solution. If it's easy, then it's even more inexcusable that the feature is missing. - angler8890, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0More and more mail are becoming integrated with http://www.ggtv.info/sitemap.htm things like calendars, distribution lists, etc.
- poupetson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0http://www.freeemailtutorials.com/mozillaThunderbird/Thunderbird2Alpha1.cwd
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