On 6/1/2010 9:34 AM, William Robb wrote:
And, as I just discovered, if I walk away from the computer with an email in mid composition, it will leave it open, but also drop it into the drafts folder. It doesn't give me the option of sending when I want to. OE would allow me to hit send on the message, and drop the message into the outbox where it would sit until I hit send on the program. Thunderbird just forces send.

Dropping down the File menu in the composition window and clicking Send Later will put the message into the Outbox so you can send it at a time of your choosing.

T-Bird on configuration defaulted to IMAP, and when I pointed it to my Google account tried to import everything in it (several gigs now), which caused it to stop running. After configuring it to POP, that went away, but I had to uninstall it and start again fresh, which was a minor PITA.

I didn't like the default to IMAP either so I just deleted the newly created account and started over, choosing POP at the appropriate time. Once I figured out how to do the first account, I just kept adding the rest of my accounts. T-Bird never asked for a re-start or re-install.

There are just a lot of configurable things in OE that don't seem available in Thunderbird.

What other configurable things did OE give you. Maybe I've found some of them. :-)

OTOH, it spell checks inline and can be set to force spell check prior to sending, while OE had to be told to spell check, so there is some small good along with the inexplicably bad.

I guess I can't complain too much, it didn't cost me anything to download it, but after a week of using T-Bird I am really missing OE.




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