Thunderbird

[Dave T.]

With the choices of vista mail and live mail, has anyone used Thunderbird
and happy with it

Been using TB for news and mail for several years. Love it. My only
complaint is it seems to have a slow upload speed for sent mail with
attachments. I think it may be my ISP as much as anything.

Tried WM, and then WLM. I sure hope they did something with that. It was
a total disaster when I tried it about 6 months ago.

 

[Guest]

It's still kinda disaster.

Been using TB for news and mail for several years. Love it. My only
complaint is it seems to have a slow upload speed for sent mail with
attachments. I think it may be my ISP as much as anything.

Tried WM, and then WLM. I sure hope they did something with that. It was
a total disaster when I tried it about 6 months ago.

 

[Bert Kinney]

I started using TB as newsgroup reader shortly after Vista was released, and
Outlook 2007 for mail.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[vernon]

With the choices of vista mail and live mail, has anyone used Thunderbird
and happy with it

Are there "gotchas" in transferring e-mails and addresses to Thunderbird
from Vista mail?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Are there "gotchas" in transferring e-mails and addresses to Thunderbird
from Vista mail?

I think so. The last time I tried Thunderbird (about three months ago), it
failed to import any of my WM or WLM accounts, emails, or contacts.

 

[f/fgeorge]

Are there "gotchas" in transferring e-mails and addresses to Thunderbird
from Vista mail?

Groups don't transfer either.

 

[Charlie42]

Are there "gotchas" in transferring e-mails and addresses to Thunderbird
from Vista mail?

Generally, it's better to direct questions about third party software to the
third party's support site:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/

But to answer your question: A Thunderbird Import/Export Tool add-on has
been released, that should help you to migrate from Windows Mail. I'm not
sure if it works with Windows Live Mail, but if it doesn't, you can copy
e-mails from the WLM to the WM mail folder
(%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders), and then
run the add-on.

Charlie42

 

[Agiyo]

With the choices of vista mail and live mail, has anyone used Thunderbird
and happy with it

I've been using Thunderbird email for the last year or so, and have just
gone to Windows Mail. This is the first time in many years that I have gone
back to any Microsoft product, but I find T-Bird to be more awkward to use
than Win Mail.

If I had to name one irritation in T-Bird, it is the annoying pop-up that
informs me "one or more recipients of this email are listed as not being able
to receive html etc.," though the email I am replying to came in html. I
have not been able to find how to turn that off, and life is too short to
waste on foibles of eccentric software. (Says the Photoshop CS2 struggler)