Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-01-24 02:00am

Hey, did y'all know Thunderbird 1.0 is out? Now that I managed to migrate my Mozilla profile I like it so far. Thoughts, tips, tricks?

There was something I wanted to do but I'll be damned if I can remember what...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-01-24 04:25am

Dalton wrote:Hey, did y'all know Thunderbird 1.0 is out? Now that I managed to migrate my Mozilla profile I like it so far. Thoughts, tips, tricks?

There was something I wanted to do but I'll be damned if I can remember what...

"Y'all"? Ugh, hick talk.

Can I aks you something? Do you use the full Mozilla package or did you get Firefox v1.0 on its own? I've been wondering whether to go back to having a full package, though I don't know whether it's beneficial.

CDS · Post by **CDS** » 2005-01-24 04:30am

Depends if you really want a news and email reader and a website creator or not.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-01-24 04:33am

I'm too lazy for all that crap, Computing Stalker Person. Think I'll stick with just the browser for now, not like this crappy network allows me to access Usenet via an e-mail client anyway.

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2005-01-24 10:38am

Dalton wrote:Hey, did y'all know Thunderbird 1.0 is out? Now that I managed to migrate my Mozilla profile I like it so far. Thoughts, tips, tricks?

It's been out for a while actually. I've had it installed on my computer for months...

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Can I aks you something? Do you use the full Mozilla package or did you get Firefox v1.0 on its own? I've been wondering whether to go back to having a full package, though I don't know whether it's beneficial.

I've always preferred Firefox. If I want to check my mail and NG's, I'll just fire up Thunderbird. Mozilla Suite always used to take forever to start up.

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-24 10:40am

What is so special about Thunderbird? What does it do in comparison to Express or Outlook?

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-01-24 10:54am

What is so special about Thunderbird? What does it do in comparison to Express or Outlook?

Basicly the same difference as IE and FireFox. Better security, better features, etc.

I've been curious, does anyone know a way to get Hotmail accounts working?
Seems MSN dropped POP3 support, since Hotmail now will not work in ANYTHING but Outlook. It's frustrating, especially since I had my father switching to Thunderbird but now he's going back to Outlook just for Hotmail (he's already using FireFox).

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-01-24 12:15pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Can I aks you something? Do you use the full Mozilla package or did you get Firefox v1.0 on its own? I've been wondering whether to go back to having a full package, though I don't know whether it's beneficial.

I DLed Firefox on its own since the previous versions of Thunderbird didn't fully support profile migration. I wasn't aware that they were in a package format like Mozilla.

observer_20000 wrote:It's been out for a while actually. I've had it installed on my computer for months...

Ah, nobody had mentioned it here.

JeanLucPicard wrote:What is so special about Thunderbird? What does it do in comparison to Express or Outlook?

It's not a buggy, worthless product riddled with security holes and it does the exact same thing. Plus, it can check multiple POP3 accounts.

Praxis wrote:I've been curious, does anyone know a way to get Hotmail accounts working?
Seems MSN dropped POP3 support, since Hotmail now will not work in ANYTHING but Outlook. It's frustrating, especially since I had my father switching to Thunderbird but now he's going back to Outlook just for Hotmail (he's already using FireFox).

I doubt it...there's probably proprietary encoding or something. Microsoft seems to tend to force people to use its products to access its services.

CDS · Post by **CDS** » 2005-01-24 01:42pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'm too lazy for all that crap, Computing Stalker Person. Think I'll stick with just the browser for now,

I know where you live! Bwaahahahaha!

not like this crappy network allows me to access Usenet via an e-mail client anyway.

Yes it does.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-01-24 01:53pm

Dalton wrote:
JeanLucPicard wrote:What is so special about Thunderbird? What does it do in comparison to Express or Outlook?
It's not a buggy, worthless product riddled with security holes and it does the exact same thing. Plus, it can check multiple POP3 accounts.

Is it better then Eudora?

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2005-01-24 04:34pm

Does it work with Gmail? Since I'm slowly migrating to that rather than Hotmail.

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2005-01-24 04:37pm

andrewgpaul wrote:Does it work with Gmail? Since I'm slowly migrating to that rather than Hotmail.

Yes. But you have to enable POP on the options page using the web based interface of Gmail. If you haven't already done it, that is...

Post by **The Wookiee** » 2005-01-24 07:05pm

Ace Pace wrote:
Dalton wrote:
JeanLucPicard wrote:What is so special about Thunderbird? What does it do in comparison to Express or Outlook?
It's not a buggy, worthless product riddled with security holes and it does the exact same thing. Plus, it can check multiple POP3 accounts.
Is it better then Eudora?

I've never used Eudora, but Thunderbird suits my needs perfectly so I don't see the need to pull my hair out trying to import my mail into yet another client

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2005-01-24 08:22pm

observer_20000 wrote:
andrewgpaul wrote:Does it work with Gmail? Since I'm slowly migrating to that rather than Hotmail.
Yes. But you have to enable POP on the options page using the web based interface of Gmail. If you haven't already done it, that is...

Ah. may try it again; tried it once before, but it wouldn't work with Hotmail, so I got rid of it.

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2005-01-24 09:12pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Dalton wrote:Hey, did y'all know Thunderbird 1.0 is out? Now that I managed to migrate my Mozilla profile I like it so far. Thoughts, tips, tricks?

There was something I wanted to do but I'll be damned if I can remember what...
"Y'all"? Ugh, hick talk.

It's less ambiguous than "you" for the second person plural pronoun. Of course, someone who used "y'all" as a singular pronoun really is a dumb hick.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-01-24 11:26pm

sketerpot wrote: It's less ambiguous than "you" for the second person plural pronoun. Of course, someone who used "y'all" as a singular pronoun really is a dumb hick.

You missed my intentional comedy too. How many saw "aks" as a typo rather than an imitation of a rather annoying southern state pronunciation?

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2005-01-25 08:13am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:You missed my intentional comedy too. How many saw "aks" as a typo rather than an imitation of a rather annoying southern state pronunciation?

I presumed you did it as a joke. If I'd figured you were taking your vocabulary in *that* direction, I'd have had no other alternative for the future of your profession but to have you assigned to roundin' up dem cows what gots a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy hurtin'.

More to the point, is there any *better* platform than Thunderbird for e-mail? I'm one of those old-fashioned stuck-on-Outlook kind of fellows but am willing to try anything if it's better.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-01-25 08:29am

Lagmonster wrote: I presumed you did it as a joke. If I'd figured you were taking your vocabulary in *that* direction, I'd have had no other alternative for the future of your profession but to have you assigned to roundin' up dem cows what gots a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy hurtin'.

Nowt wrong with cows. Moooooo...

More to the point, is there any *better* platform than Thunderbird for e-mail? I'm one of those old-fashioned stuck-on-Outlook kind of fellows but am willing to try anything if it's better.

So long as it isn't Outlook, it should be good. Thunderbird has rave reviews, or so I recall, and Outlook is the virus target of the world. Either way, changing your client is a good idea.

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