Thunderbird ain't perfect, either

[Charles]

 > I'm lost here. I happen to like Thunderbird's search, and I don't know
 > what X1 is.

http://www.x1.com/

Its like a google desktop search - Ive heard good things about it. 
Yahoo desktop search ( http://desktop.yahoo.com/ )  uses the X1 engine.

OT : I have a subscription to yahoo music , and i was searching for 'the 
  clash' but had typed 'teh clash' , and it came up with 0 results, i 
thought how indicative of yahoo's search :S.  I canceled the service.

OOT: I just realized thunderbird highlights misspellings as you type, 
pretty cool!

Charlie



Carlos Santander wrote:
> Walter Bright escribió:
>> So, having been hosed by O.E. at least 4 times whenever I either 
>> upgraded the OS or had to reinstall it, I decided to bite the bullet 
>> and install Thunderbird. There's good, there's bad:
>>
>> The good:
>>
>> 1) It's free.
>> 2) It's look and feel is familiar, little new to learn here.
>> 3) The message database is in plaintext. I am very uneasy having 
>> critical data to my business in a secret, undocumented format. What if 
>> those files get corrupted? What if Microsoft end-of-lifed support for 
>> it? Poof!
>> 4) Spell checker. Gotta pay extra for a 3rd party spell checker for O.E.
>> 5) Seems to get the unread message count right. O.E. always gets this 
>> wrong.
>>
>> The bad:
>>
>> 1) No way to backup/restore the data. It's about as bad as O.E. here. 
>> C'mon, Tbird developers, how hard can this be? I want a simple way to 
>> back up EVERYTHING to a CD or another drive, and then restore it.
> 
> All you have to do is backup your local profile folder.
> 
>> 2) Buggy import from O.E. messages - it sometimes inexplicably gets 
>> the dates all screwed up, resulting in messages having been received 
>> in year 2101, or year 1965.
> 
> I didn't have that problem when I left OE long ago.
> 
>> 3) Search is essentially useless, still have to use X1.
>>
> 
> :S
> I'm lost here. I happen to like Thunderbird's search, and I don't know 
> what X1 is.
> 
>> So far I've only used Tbird for an hour or so.
> 
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