Mozilla Thunderbird approaching 1.0, help wanted

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With all the hoopla about the impending Firefox 1.0 release, its notable to point out that Firefox's e-mail companion software, Thunderbird, will be releasing at 1.0 the same time as Firefox.

To help in this task, the Mozilla group is asking users of Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook Express, and Communicator, to join the irc.mozilla.org chat room, channel #mozillazine this Tuesday, and help them in a day of testing the Thunderbird migration system. Their goal: squash as many migration bugs as possible to make the 1.0 program as easy as possible for people moving from their current e-mail clients.

People of varied versions, operating systems, and setups are wanted. In the end, all the problems will be filed on Bugzilla to be fixed by Thunderbird developers.

Their secondary goal is to show users of other clients how easy and wonderful Thunderbird is. (ed: I just switched two days ago from Outlook, so I can't be of much help except to say it was flawless.) If you're not ready to make the jump yet, they still need your help, just trash it all when you're done.

News source: MozillaZine

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(4 replies) #1 kainashi on 07 Aug 2004 - 21:42

this is going to be awesome. firefox and thunderbird 1.0 at the same time.

#1.1 aaroniekins on 07 Aug 2004 - 21:56

almost orgasmic isnt it

#1.2 Jugalator on 07 Aug 2004 - 23:02

Almost?

I'm having sex with those application all day long.
Come on and join me in a threesome with Firefox.

#1.3 allfive6 on 08 Aug 2004 - 10:30

QUOTE (#1.1)

someone needs a life

#1.4 chacho on 08 Aug 2004 - 15:42

QUOTE (#1.3)

agreed,

(1 reply) #2 jmc777 on 07 Aug 2004 - 22:46

#2.1 slang123 on 07 Aug 2004 - 23:47

WOOOOOOOO well done

#3 ghos on 07 Aug 2004 - 22:50

Thunderbird has worked flawlessly for me since I first got it, version .3 or something. This is an email program no one should be without. I understand there may be other programs that do more, but for basic email and newsgroup functions, Tbird can't be beat. All OE users should switch over.

#4 NG_Nigma on 07 Aug 2004 - 23:49

Switched it when 0.3 came out

(7 replies) #5 dotnetjunkie on 08 Aug 2004 - 00:27

Tell me, what's better in Thunderbird than in Outlook?

#5.1 davs on 08 Aug 2004 - 01:04

outlook's has calendar, notes, full-featured address book and tasks. thunderbird is probably more comparable to oultook express. by the way, does anyone know if you can sync thunderbird to a tungsten? i usually write and read email on my tungsten and i sync to outlook.. thanks

#5.2 Varsity on 08 Aug 2004 - 06:46

Adaptive Junk mail filter. The rest is history.

#5.3 JaggedFlame on 08 Aug 2004 - 06:54

Get SpamBayes for Outlook, and you have a free adaptive junk mail filter. What were you saying about history?

#5.4 tapo on 08 Aug 2004 - 08:23

1. Thunderbird is constantly updated.

2. Thunderbird has extensions to match or surpass the abilities of outlook.

3. Thunderbird is the same, cross-platform.

4. Junk mail filter rocks, it's the best one I've used.

That's about it. Thunderbird is a good email client, it isn't exactly spectacular, but I like it.

#5.5 JaggedFlame on 08 Aug 2004 - 16:30

They're both constantly updated, so I don't see your point there. You do make a good point with the extensions.

#5.6 tapo on 09 Aug 2004 - 01:14

I mean that it has a major release about once every 3 or 4 months, and these releases usually include new features as well as bug fixes, so it's constantly improving at a very fast rate.

Give Thunderbird a shot, see if it works for you, if not then stick with your existing client.

(Personally, I like it better then Outlook Express, but I'm not sure about Outlook. Outlook looks nice, but I don't have a copy of Office to try it out.)

#5.7 jpalo on 09 Aug 2004 - 06:05

You can't really compare Outlook to Thunderbird, as someone said, if you want to compare, you'd compare OE to Thunderbird. Oulook is for business use.

I'm currently using Outlook also at home, and I am thinking of trying Thunderbird. Using Outlook at home without Exchange server is like buying a bicycle for your gold fish.

But Outlook is also updated, Office 2003 SP1 just came out.

(3 replies) #6 allfive6 on 08 Aug 2004 - 10:37

Once again all the fanboys come running out and they away forget that at the most Mozilla has a10% market share which if you don't understand what 10% mean it mean 9 of ever 10 people use something else. And beside if they get any bigger share Microsoft will just crush them after all no one misses with Microsoft money

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#6.1 chacho on 08 Aug 2004 - 15:44

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And beside if they get any bigger share Microsoft will just crush them after all no one misses with Microsoft money

you are such an idiot. how can microsoft's money crush mozilla? and even if they could, why not do it now?

#6.2 allfive6 on 08 Aug 2004 - 18:18

you moron money is everything microsoft and has money they will set and wait tell there is a really chance they could lose money then they will crush you or buy you either way they will win

#6.3 falcon1 on 09 Aug 2004 - 03:25

Ok, first off, dont call him a moron if you cant even manage to use the English language. Second, Microsoft can not neccesarily crush Mozilla - they can compete, but they cant just simply crush them. Money is not everything. The Mozilla group has the desire to make great products for free, and that is the key.

#7 underthebridge on 08 Aug 2004 - 16:16

Thunderbird is definitely better than Outlook Express.

However, it does not have many of the advanced features of Outlook 2003.

#8 sard on 09 Aug 2004 - 08:53

I switched from Outlook Express after I realised it stored your email address in plain text in the registry, just waiting to be harvested.

(1 reply) #9 Jooely on 09 Aug 2004 - 17:55

Not hotmail migration? No thanks.

#9.1 tapo on 09 Aug 2004 - 18:43

You expect a third-party client to work with Microsoft's closed email service? Ugh.

Anywho, it'll work if you get one of those small programs that runs in the tray, acts as a smtp/pop3 server for whatever client you want to run, but it actually connects to hotmail. Look around, there are quite a few and most are free.

(Examples for other email services are YahooPOPs! and POPgoestheGmail.)

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