Thunderbird vs Outlook 2007

What email client do you all use?

I am thinking of switching to Outlook from thunderbird because of lack of functionality, any suggestions?

(edited - because people think that because software is free, you cannot criticise it)

Edited by Pipexer (Thu 09-Apr-09 01:03:03)

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Considering my hosting won't allow .eml attachments this is a pretty big stumbling block so I think its time to switch back to outlook.

It is about time they paid more attention to thunderbird if they want more people to take it up.

Is there anything I might miss about going from thunderbird to outlook?

So you are blaming a freebie piece of software rather than a hosting service you are probably paying for.

In reply to a post by Winston_Smith:

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Considering my hosting won't allow .eml attachments this is a pretty big stumbling block so I think its time to switch back to outlook.

It is about time they paid more attention to thunderbird if they want more people to take it up.

Is there anything I might miss about going from thunderbird to outlook?

So you are blaming a freebie piece of software rather than a hosting service you are probably paying for.

You damn right I am - it has been a known thunderbird bug for 9 years now, and a fairly important one i'd say - do you really expect me to take the "oh because its free I cannot complain" attitude??

That's what I said. Wasn't it ?

But are you complaing in the right place? Feedback on the Mozilla forums may be more productive.

In reply to a post by gomezz:

But are you complaing in the right place? Feedback on the Mozilla forums may be more productive.

That was the afterthought I had. You beat me to it.

I was actually asking, as I wrote in the first line, what everyone used here so I could get a measure of the general concenus, and also in the last line, are there any features I might miss if I switch to outlook. I was not complaining as such - I was giving my reason for asking the question.

Bugs like that are not acceptable in my opinion.

So gomezz and Winston - do you both use thunderbird?

Yes I do. Yes I would find that an annoying thing to happen but I never use that forward in filter feature. Haven't used Outlook for email since I left my last job five years ago so it is hard to say what I would miss if I switched. Still use Outlook for calendar and address book functionality mainly because it syncs easily with my mobile and PDA.

I use both Outlook 2007 and Thunderbird.

Thunderbird is a great basic email client, but Outlook does beat it hands down for functionality. Never had a problem with either, although Outlook can be a little slow to start and search sometimes, but that's probably more network congestion than the actual program as it's connected to a domain.

You know you can get lightning for thunderbird don't you? It's kind of bloated though.

OT; Thunderbird is rapidly falling behind in terms of features atm. There don't seem to be very many updates for it, unlike with FF.

I use Outlook 2007. Pretty good - did use TBd, but got Outlook with Office Pro 2007 and TBH it is better than Outlook 2003 I use at work . The only downside is the datafile bug.

I use Pegasus for everyday work.
I would quite likely be using Thunderbird now, but for all the old emails and addresses I have - cannot readily export/import these- and almost certainly I would have been using it if it had been around when I started with Pegasus.

I really don't see that you can complain about non-support of a future which seems to be pure Msoft, and they disable by default anyway - especially as there are other ways of getting the info across.

In reply to a post by 12eason:

You know you can get lightning for thunderbird don't you?

Yes but I am a bit leery of change for change sake from something which works perfectly well for me especially as the latest Nokia PC sync software has improved out of all recognition from the flaky [censored] it was before.

In reply to a post by dandnsmith:

I really don't see that you can complain about non-support of a future which seems to be pure Msoft, and they disable by default anyway - especially as there are other ways of getting the info across.

It's not lack of a feature, its a bug.

Edited by Pipexer (Fri 10-Apr-09 11:57:43)

I use Outlook 2007 on all the laptops and desktops in the house as I have Office 2007 on all of them.

Thunderbird is good, but it just lacks he functionality of Outlook in my opinion. If Thunderbird were to have the same functionality as Outlook then I would use Thunderbird for the most part.

Thanks for the info everyone, I think it's best for me to try outlook now and see what happens

I suspected most here would use outlook, but just wanted to confirm!

I use Thunderbird with the Lightning plugin which gives me virtually all the Outlook functionality. It can exchange appointments with Outlook and I use Thunderbird's portable edition with Sunbird to give me all that on my U3 memory stick.

Cheers

Arathorn