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im going for it, lets hope its a painless upgrade
edit: yup it was
Last edited by MadduckUK; 09-12-2009 at 04:49 PM.
VodkaOriginally Posted by Ephesians
can it give delivery reports?
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Does it still use mbox, or have they *finally* bumped up to maildir?
Will never take the place of Office Outlook 2007 on my system.
http://www.rumblingedge.com is the best place for checking on the changelogs, if you were on Beta 3 then you've missed Beta 4, RC1 & RC2
I'd say they have their pros and cons. Thunderbird works much better with Gmail IMO, and it's useful being able to sync the calendar with Google Calendar without resort to third party applications if you want to access things from multiple OSes/ PCs.
That would be nice, but personally I don't care, and if you are a Linux or Unix user you don't need to either, as you don't need to store mail in Thunderbird's local folders.
Several years ago, I setup a dovecot IMAP server on my linux box which stores mail in maildir, and serves it via IMAP to any email client on any machine on my LAN. If you are running Ubutu the whole install is fairly painless.
That's true, but Thunderbird 3 makes a local cache of your IMAP mail box to speed things up, if that means it's still stored in mbox, things get horribly slow and fragile as the mail box grows. Although at least via IMAP your real mail box is safe.
i really like that when you use the word attach in an e-mail it reminds you that you need to attach something.small things eh
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How does it work better with Gmail? I use my Gmail account through Outlook 2007. It works without a problem. I don't sync with the calendar because I have no need for the Gmail online calendar.
Thunderbird is certainly set up better for using IMAP with Gmail, at least out of the box - to get acceptable performance from Outlook you have to do some fiddling with the send/receive options, so that it doesn't spend ages trying to scan and sync all your subscribed folders each time you do a send/receive. It's not rocket science, but it's not immediately obvious or intuitive either.
There's also Outlook 2007's way of "deleting" stuff from an IMAP server (strikethrough and then purge) which doesn't play nicely with Gmail's labels - you have to remember to drag items you want deleted to the Gmail "bin" folder instead of hitting the "delete" key or button, or they'll simply disappear from view while remaining in the "All Items" label/folder. In Thunderbird 3 you can set up the account to automatically "delete" to the Gmail bin, so it really will be gone for good after the normal thirty days.
None of this is really a dealbreaker in Outlook, but TB3's integration with Gmail's IMAP just makes life that little bit easier.
If you use POP3 with Gmail instead of IMAP there's little to choose between them, admittedly.
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