On 1-Sep-2010, at 04:23, Sven Aluoor wrote: > > Whats the main differences between Apple Mail vs. Mozilla Thunderbird?
That's a very large question. > What are their advantages and disadvantages? Which mail client > performs better (faster)? What are you using? ThunderBird is, first and foremost, not a Mac application. That is to say, it doesn't look, behave, feel, think, move, respond, "correctly". It does a much better job of threading and supporting IMAP than Mail.app does, but it still has many glitches, annoyances, and out-right bugs that make using it less than fun. Mail.app, on the other hand, has been extremely stable for me and its few failings are at least consistent. I try to use ThunderBird every year or year and a half or so and it's never a very pleasant experience. One of the most annoying things for me is ThunderBird has a delay before a message is marked read, after it is displayed. Since i tend to scan through mailing lists ith 100+ new messages a day, I will often blaze through messages with only a second or two on each one before I move to the next one. Can't do that in Tbird, none of them will be marked as read. I've had to completely rebuilt TBird's mail index on at least a couple of occasions and would have lost ALL my email if I wasn't using IMAP. Overall, I prefer mail.app and have taken the time to get around some of its limitations. For example, I don't like how mail.app handles signatures, so I wrote a script that uses fortune to generate a random signature for me out of a plain text fortune file. -- Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken. --Hogfather _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
