Thunderbird ain't perfect, either

[Carlos Santander]

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.


-- 
Carlos Santander Bernal