2009/3/12 jonathon <[email protected]> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:32, John Boyle wrote: > > To James and users: Why are you using OE, when you could have a much > better Browser and Email by using Seamonkey or Firefox and Thunderbird? > > "Better" is purely in the eyes of the user. > > Personally, I wouldn't recommend Thunderbird to its inability to > perform basic email functions. (The bug report I filed got a "won't > fix", due to the not-so-trivial requirement of having to throw out the > entire code base, and rewrite thunderbird from scratch, ignoring all > existing code, so that it can perform such basic email functions, such > as retrieving email correctly.) > > The _only_ email client I've found, that can retrieve my email > correctly, has been OE. :( > > jonathon >
Perhaps you would enlighten us about this failing of Thunderbird's. I've been using TB for a couple of years now (not on this computer for other reasons) and yes, it has some shortcomings, but it has never failed properly to retrieve my messages. The Outlook Express *on this machine* is broken in two major ways which I can't fix without re-installing Windows and I'm not at all sure that even that would fix one of the problems. I've certainly never had anything like that happen to TB. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
