Dear Mr. Noyb-
I am using my grandaughters computer as I said and it has Mail with OS 10.3.4 which works well. Is PowerMail the same thing?
What I would love to know is what are the pros and cons between Thunderbird and Mail and Emailer.
regards, doug
On Aug 27, 2004, at 10:16 PM, Mr. Noyb wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:14:03 -0500 am Doug McAdam wrote:However I know nothing of PowerMail or Thunderbird. Are you saying Thunderbird is a better alternative to CE?
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Thunderbird's window and column layout can be easily configured to be the same as CE. There are different "themes" (aka "skins") available, extensions that add functionality, a community that supports it.
It's free and the license gives you huge freedoms to modify, copy, reuse and redistribute Thunderbird. It's cross-platform. Thunderbird is now at version 0.7 and 0.8 will be released shortly.
Switching from Mail.app to Thunderbird is pretty easy.
I tried Powermail and gave up after a couple of days. I wasn't impressed with the user interface nor the feature set. It's commercial software, costing $49 and upgrades aren't free. If the company goes under or decides to EOL Powermail because it's not making them money any more (does this sound at all familiar? :-/ ) what are you going to do?
BTW, the Powermail company homepage <http://www.ctmdev.com/> is giving me a 404 error :-(
Mail.app suffers from many of the "proprietary problems" that Powermail does. I used Mail.app with Jaguar for 3-4 months before I discovered Thunderbird. Thunderbird 0.5 blew Mail.app out of the water for features and usability and I switched immediately. I didn't bother trying Panther's version of Mail.app.
Mr. Noyb.
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