Thunderbird

[JoeA]

And it came to pass that Andrew C. Cooper wrote:

I've never used Outlook or Outlook Express. Went straight from
Netscape4.78 to Thunderbyrd. If I make a spelling error, uh,
so what.

 

[Russ]

I've never used Outlook or Outlook Express. Went straight from
Netscape4.78 to Thunderbyrd. If I make a spelling error, uh,
so what.

Heh...

Spelchucker
Aye halve a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plainly Marx four my revue
miss steaks eye Cannes knot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no.
Its letter perfect in it's whey:
my checker tolled me sew!
-- David Fetter

There are good free and free-standing speelchucklers which will work
with your clipboard and whatever Windows application you want them
to deal with. I haven't needed a free-standing one in years, but I
see they're out there and many come with good recommendations.
Pricelessware recommends All-Purpose Spell Checker (APSC)
<http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/PL2003BUSINESS.htm#SpellChecker>.
No need to do without unless you're just not particularly interested
to begin with.

I have used Outlook Express. Two different versions. With all due
respect to its fan base, I have to agree with P.J. Connolly who
noted that "discussing solutions in the context of Microsoft's
inherently insecure email software is like deciding what kind of
paint you're going to put on the barn once the fire's out."

 

[Christopher Jahn]

I've never used Outlook or Outlook Express. Went straight
from Netscape4.78 to Thunderbyrd. If I make a spelling
error, uh, so what.

I never use a spell checker, so I had not realized until just
now that there isn't one for Tbird. There is one for Mozilla,
and I had assumed that it had been tweaked for Tbird.

--
Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/xjahn/Main.html

How many times do I have to tell you that drilling holes in
your
head will not relieve stress?

 

[Christopher Jahn]

That's all fine to just say, but there are very simple ways
to prevent viruses with a few changes in the options,
regular Windows Updates, and some common sense.

Weekly updates to Outlook, weekly updates to your virus
checker, and hope you don't miss an update to either one.

Or, just use any other client out of the box.


--
Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/xjahn/Main.html

Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

 

[Christopher Jahn]

OE isn't the only problem. MyDoom proved that.


Did that study also remove the massively braindead users
from the equation?

Braindead users tend to use Outlook Express. Remove it, and
it won't matter nearly so much if the user is braindead or
not.

--
Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/xjahn/Main.html

Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

 

[Rhexis]

Braindead users tend to use Outlook Express.

You can't blame OE for social engineering. Blame it for being
generally shitty and non-RFC compliant instead.

Remove it, and
it won't matter nearly so much if the user is braindead or not.

Yeah, idiots without access to email would be a step forward...

 

[Bob Dole]

. . . and some common sense.

This is exactly the thing that most people who get viruses don't have.

 

[REM]

"Rhexis" <[email protected]> wrote:

It's actually not /that/ hard not to open britney.nude.jpg.exe.vbs.pif
or other such unwanted mail.

In Thunderbird? I think that you have to save the nude surprise and
run it.

Where ya been Rhexis?

 

[REM]

I never use a spell checker, so I had not realized until just
now that there isn't one for Tbird. There is one for Mozilla,
and I had assumed that it had been tweaked for Tbird.

http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.5

2.5 Does Thunderbird come with a spell checker?
Yes!

It's a pretty nice one too!

 

[Jari Lehtonen]

2.5 Does Thunderbird come with a spell checker?
Yes!

It's a pretty nice one too!

I can confirm that

Finnish spellchecker is broken though .-(
Jari

 

[Rhexis]

In Thunderbird? I think that you have to save the nude surprise and
run it.

That's somewhat of a hurdle, I'll give you that. A zipped MyDoom
is just as dangerous in the hands of a dumb TB-user as a dumb
OE-user though.

Where ya been Rhexis?

I've been to Southern California for about 8 years.

(Actually I just grew tired of the trolling and unsubcribed for a while.)

 

[Martyn]

Is this a joke?
Your messages on the thread shows you already "are" using Mozilla !.

Hi Andrew!

Andrew C. Cooper <[email protected]> [Mi, 04 Feb 2004 um 20:12 GMT]:

Anyone use Thunderbird Email on a day to day basis? can it replace
Outlook? (not that piece of junk outlook express).

I'm not sure if Thunderbird is a groupware client (as Outlook is). AFAIK
it is only an emailer (as Outlook Express).
If you really need groupware functionality, your stuck to Lotus (which
has the worst user interface ever!) and Outlook. I once had a freeware
version of Lotus, you don't want to try that.

I have so many problems with Outlook Express that our ministry is
looking for a good solid Email client with spell scheck. Could
Thunderbird do that?

Probably. But why not use Mozilla and Mozilla Mail?

Greetings,

Joachim

I will try Mozilla and Mozilla mail. Thanks for the input.

--
Andrew C. Cooper
www.wordforlife.com/cmhm
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Going To Church Doesn't
Make You A Christian
Any More Than Going To
Mc Donald's Makes You
A Hamburger-- Keith Green
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[bambam]

Is this a joke?
Your messages on the thread shows you already "are" using Mozilla !.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b)
Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4

User-Agent: = Thunderbird 0.4

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