Thunderbird ain't perfect, either

[Tom]

Thunderbird is very nice, I use it but I have to admit it lacks a bunch 
of features. Search is horrific as well as filter definitions (you can't 
get "(filtercondition1 && filtercondition2) || filtercondition3", 
instead you choose between && or || for every conditions). I've used 
another mail client that has plenty more features and works well (I 
don't like it as it doesn't improve a bit even though its version number 
increased in a +1 basis over the last five years: that would be Qualcomm 
Eudora. It worth the try but after a long time using it I've chosen 
Thunderbird anyway.

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Tom;

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.
> 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.
> 3) Search is essentially useless, still have to use X1.
> 
> So far I've only used Tbird for an hour or so.