Thunderbird not cutting it though Firefox is great! Email client recommendation?

[fitwell]

I'm curious: could you name some features that are currently missing
from ThunderBird?

Off the top of my head (since I left TB only for my ISP mail now so
hardly use it), the rules wizards are nowhere near as comprehensive.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I couldn't see anywhere how to deal with
exceptions. i.e., you set one rule up but there was no way to tell TB
to do this to these messages _UNLESS_ this or these conditiosn applied
.....

i.e., I often forward email from a yahoo group to an internet friend.
The subject line contains the name of the yahoo group. When she
returns an answer, her mail gets treated like the rest of the mail
from that group and the rules for mail coming from here would get
ignored in TB! Not so in Outlook 2000. I just modified the rules for
that particular group to say "move the messages with _this_ in the
subject line into this folder _unless_ sent from this person". Then
the rules for her mail get obeyed regardless of what is in the subject
line. (Also, no simple COPY command that I could see in the rules
wizard. Have to build up each rule from scratch!)

Another one, can't colour code messages by sender. When you deal in
5-10 megs of mail a day (because of the attachments) and the number of
mail messages themselves runs into the hundreds, nice to colour code a
handful from certain important senders to me a certain colour. This
one I also asked about in a mozilla ng. NO CAN DO in TB!

The calendar is lightweight, too. Doesn't have the features that O2K
has. Just from the top of my head, functionality-speaking, no
comparions. But something simple like with some recurring
appointments I have in O2K (which I use as repeating reminders, not
appointments), I couldn't paste a screenshot with info into the
calendar entry. Big, big drawback.

And a whole host of other things. I could write a list of items that
would be very long once I got started. And there are so few
extensions for TB yet to fix any of these.

Is TB good? Yes. For the average person, it's more than enough to
handle regular mail requirements. But if you have more robust needs,
then, no. It doesn't do the job.

It did do one very important thing, though. The 3 or 4 limitations
that O2K has? No longer as much of a hassle. I was reminded through
this TB exercise on how much O2K actually _does_ do for me and does it
exceptionally well!

Cheers.