Robert Seeberger wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:IQOnx2gc2_oJ:grove.ufl.edu/~dwc/aOn Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:07:02AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Thunderbird does a similar act with threading and it seems to work
pretty good. Is there any way to change the look of Mutt?
I was curious how threading compared on mutt, Thunderbird, and mail.app. A google turned up this post:
rchives/cat_internet.html+Thunderbird+threading+mutt&hl=en&client=fire
fox-a
http://urlsnip.com/699033
[Snip stuff]
Thanks Erik! Interesting stuff.
The first problem I've run into with Thunderbird has to do with filters. When I D/Led Thunderbird it copied all my settings from OE accurately and replicated the enviroment I was used to reading from including the seperate folders I keep for each mailing list I sub to. This was great! I could see all my old mail in a threaded enviroment which was a strong point in Thunderbirds favor.
But when I downloaded some new mail everything was thrown into the "Inbox" and it was quite apparent that Thunderbird did not replicate *any* of my filters whatsoever. I have a LOT of filters and quail at the thought of inputing all this stuff manually. (Laziness on my part to be honest<G>)
So it was a bit of a mixed bag for Thunderbird. It replicated all my
settings accurately and seems to possess a superior functionality
overall (in comparison to OE at least).
The downside was that it didn't replicate my filters (which I find
problematic since the filtering scheme for Thunderbird appears to be
quite similar to that of OE and which makes me wonder why that
particular function wasn't included).
It got all my filters from Netscape just fine. :)
Realistically, Thunderbird seems to be designed to replace OE and does
a good job at that for basic users, but the more advanced a user is
the more difficulties one may find during the changeover period.
(Hopefully someone here knows about something I missed, and I am just
plain wrong about the filters. This would improve my opinion of
Thunderbird considerably, even in light of the problems Erik has
uncovered. )
Thunderbird quite plainly has better functionality than OE.
Though I am still likely to continue to use OE for a while. At least
until I can find out what MS is going to do to improve OE if indeed
there are any such plans at all in the offing.
Thunderbird looks a lot like the old Netscape Communicator I was using on the old computer, and functions in mostly the same way. (It'll take a little time to get used to the differences, but so far, they're not a hassle.)
The only thing I managed to not do that I would have liked to have done was get the address book. But since I have all the messages it was constructed from, that won't be impossible, just will take a little while. :)
Julia
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