On 27.10.2010 01:15, Jon Davis wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 15:02, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Erik Moeller, 26/10/2010 23:01: >>> We've recommended Thunderbird in the past (with some folks sticking >>> with GMail, yours truly included), but unfortunately it doesn't meet >>> all our needs. >> >> Why? >> >> > All things considered, I like Thunderbird, but it has two main issues for > us. > > #1 - No integrated & centralized calendar. What about the Sunbird/Lightning extension for the Thunderbird. I think that the number of manipulation to setup them will be the same with the amount of setup for Google Calendar.
> #2 - Search. A number of people have mentioned this to me and I think it > might be the biggest single issue with Thunderbird that I've seen. If you > have a large number of emails, search in Thunderbird works in strange ways. > It will find some emails that seem totally unrelated to your search term, > and miss the most obvious ones. I consider myself fairly adept at > manipulating search engines into finding what I need and even I have had > serious issues finding what I want. It's gone so far that at least one > staff that I know of took to sorting emails into folders by whom they were > received from, then color coding each "thread" differently - simply so the > user could find what they were looking for. I guess indeed the search in Thunderbird may be not so accurate as in Gmail (since google started as a search engine - no comments on that) - but thunderbird has a lot of extension with whom you can do whatever you want to do with it - including the ones for searching. And as a small comment: Thunderbird is free (as in freedom) application and allows to do whatever manipulation with the code (and there are a bunch of thunderbird customization already available there) - thus if there is a need this need can solved by the community. - And Wikimedia could make a call for improvements in the code of TB, which I believe would have be taken into consideration by the developers. And more people could have used the results of that - thus generating a better and smoother application (as in the wikipedia articles). > > -Jon _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
