I'm done with Windows Mail

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MICHAEL

I've moved to Thunderbird. I don't know what I've been waiting for.
This is so much better. I've put up with WinMail since June, no more.
I was just using it for newsgroups, too. I use Outlook for email.

For those feeling aggravated by Windows Mail, use Thunderbird...
you'll be happy that you did.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Thunderbird 1.5


I'm actually using Thunderbird 2.0 RC1...
WinMail is the one that acts like a beta,
not Thunderbird.



-Michael
 
Thunderbird doesn't tell you when there are new newsgroups, like WinMail and
Outlook Express do. and it doesn't put the newsgroups in alphabetical order
without some cumbersome workaround.

Regards,
Dweebs
 
Dweebs said:
Thunderbird doesn't tell you when there are new newsgroups, like WinMail and
Outlook Express do. and it doesn't put the newsgroups in alphabetical order
without some cumbersome workaround.
Click to expand...

Outlook Express is an excellent newsreader with plenty of features.
 
Those two things aren't nearly as important to me
as overall performance is. Thunderbird downloads
headers amazingly fast. It doesn't take 9 hours to
mark all messages read, it's instant. It doesn't make
jumps in memory usage from 4,000K to over 100,000K.
It doesn't max out the CPU either, seemingly for no apparent
reason. If you have seen my posts and Winston's posts
in the winmail newsgroup, you'll know that for whatever reason
some of us have to actually open up Windows Calendar first
before we can get our compose/reply windows to respond quickly.
That's just ignorant. There are other aggravations.

-Michael
 
MICHAEL said:
Those two things aren't nearly as important to me
as overall performance is. Thunderbird downloads
headers amazingly fast. It doesn't take 9 hours to
mark all messages read, it's instant. It doesn't make
jumps in memory usage from 4,000K to over 100,000K.
It doesn't max out the CPU either, seemingly for no apparent
reason. If you have seen my posts and Winston's posts
in the winmail newsgroup, you'll know that for whatever reason
some of us have to actually open up Windows Calendar first
before we can get our compose/reply windows to respond quickly.
That's just ignorant. There are other aggravations.

-Michael
Click to expand...

A con of T-Bird is if you use HTML, when you reply to a message, it
changes the message of the person to whom you are replying to the same
HTML as you're using and there's no work around or fix.

Alias
 
Alias said:
A con of T-Bird is if you use HTML, when you reply to a message, it
changes the message of the person to whom you are replying to the same
HTML as you're using and there's no work around or fix.

Alias
Click to expand...

Thanks for the tip. Not a problem for me- for newsgroups,
I compose and read in plain text, only. I use Outlook for email
and also read in plain text. Outlook has a little toggle at the
top of email messages that lets you read in HTML if the email was
sent in HTML.

I'm not sure if it was the Mozilla suite or Thunderbird I used
awhile back, but if someone sent a message in HTML, and you were
reading in plain text, the message was a mess. Doesn't seem to be
that way any longer... that's great.

Thunderbird is only a 6.4MB download. Version 2.0 even checks
spelling on the fly.


-Michael
 
On 4/11/2007 12:14 AM On a whim, Dweebs pounded out on the keyboard
Thunderbird doesn't tell you when there are new newsgroups, like WinMail and
Outlook Express do. and it doesn't put the newsgroups in alphabetical order
without some cumbersome workaround.

Regards,
Dweebs
Click to expand...

For newsgroups on a server, re-ordering a text .rc file is hardly
cumbersome. And with the Folderpane extension, you can put email & news
servers in any order you like.

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On 4/11/2007 4:51 AM On a whim, Alias pounded out on the keyboard

A con of T-Bird is if you use HTML, when you reply to a message, it
changes the message of the person to whom you are replying to the same
HTML as you're using and there's no work around or fix.

Alias
Click to expand...
<snip>

Funny, I have OL users do that to my email. I've never had anyone tell
me my replies reformat their email. Maybe it's the way you configured
your HTML composing.

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A con of T-Bird is if you use HTML, when you reply to a message, it
changes the message of the person to whom you are replying to the same
HTML as you're using and there's no work around or fix.

Alias
Click to expand...

Thanks for the tip. Not a problem for me- for newsgroups,
I compose and read in plain text, only. I use Outlook for email
and also read in plain text. Outlook has a little toggle at the
top of email messages that lets you read in HTML if the email was
sent in HTML.

I'm not sure if it was the Mozilla suite or Thunderbird I used
awhile back, but if someone sent a message in HTML, and you were
reading in plain text, the message was a mess. Doesn't seem to be
that way any longer... that's great.

Thunderbird is only a 6.4MB download. Version 2.0 even checks
spelling on the fly.


-Michael[/QUOTE]

The current release checks spelling also on the fly.

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Whether you use Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Thunderbird you
could all usefully take a lesson on how to snip replies!


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Terry said:
On 4/11/2007 4:51 AM On a whim, Alias pounded out on the keyboard


<snip>

Funny, I have OL users do that to my email. I've never had anyone tell
me my replies reformat their email. Maybe it's the way you configured
your HTML composing.
Click to expand...

It doesn't happen with black HTML text. If you use blue, for example,
the message to which you are replying will all turn blue.

Alias
 
MICHAEL said:
Those two things aren't nearly as important to me
as overall performance is. Thunderbird downloads
headers amazingly fast. It doesn't take 9 hours to
mark all messages read, it's instant. It doesn't make
jumps in memory usage from 4,000K to over 100,000K.
It doesn't max out the CPU either, seemingly for no apparent
reason. If you have seen my posts and Winston's posts
in the winmail newsgroup, you'll know that for whatever reason
some of us have to actually open up Windows Calendar first
before we can get our compose/reply windows to respond quickly.
That's just ignorant. There are other aggravations.

-Michael
Click to expand...
Now be honest here ... have you ever seen a Microsoft product that works
well? Microsoft appears to be incapable of producing good software, hence
the rise of so many other third-party applications that try to fill the
gap.

Love and Kisses,
Doris
 
Alias said:
A con of T-Bird is if you use HTML, when you reply to a message, it
changes the message of the person to whom you are replying to the same
HTML as you're using and there's no work around or fix.
Click to expand...
Maybe that's because HTML in email was invented by MickeyMouse. Another of
its great ideas - not. Neither email nor newsgroup articles should ever be
posted in HTML.

Love and Kisses,
Doris
 
On 4/11/2007 8:19 AM On a whim, Gerry Cornell pounded out on the keyboard
Whether you use Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Thunderbird you
could all usefully take a lesson on how to snip replies!
Click to expand...

And that would entail leaving enough of the post you're responding to so
people know WHO you're talking to and WHAT you're talking about!

You didn't snip! You deleted everything!

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On 4/11/2007 4:51 AM On a whim, Alias pounded out on the keyboard


<snip>

Funny, I have OL users do that to my email. I've never had anyone tell
me my replies reformat their email. Maybe it's the way you configured
your HTML composing.
Click to expand...

It doesn't happen with black HTML text. If you use blue, for example,
the message to which you are replying will all turn blue.

Alias[/QUOTE]

OL does that also.

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Terry

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