On Jun 1, 2010, at 07:34 , William Robb wrote:
On 01/06/2010 7:51 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
I have never had trouble with Thunderbird. Our office has OE, and I
consider it far less flexible and quite a bit slower. For important
things, I always use Thunderbird.
The things I'm having problems with is OE let me choose where my
store folder was located, which allowed me to move it off the OS
drive and onto my mirrored drive, which made me feel a bit safer
about data loss.
I don't think Thunderbird will allow that, and the location of it's
store folder is rather inscrutable.
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.
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.
There are just a lot of configurable things in OE that don't seem
available in Thunderbird.
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.
Are you saying that Bill Gates, the other JC in the room, took
something away and forced you to use something else, in essence
dictating what you had to use? Impossible. :-)
Joseph McAllister
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The Big Bang was silent, and probably invisible.
— from the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far.
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