Thunderbird ain't perfect, either

[Walter Bright]

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.