Originally Posted by
CaptainCrash
My main gripe with the current version of Thunderbird is that there's apparently no way of disabling the automatic account setup "feature". Sometimes it gets it right (Gmail/IMAP usually works fine), other times it's too smart for its own good, and it can be a royal PITA having to reconfigure it after the event.
Otherwise, yes, it's a nice client - the tabbed layout can be switched off if you don't like it, just select the option to open messages in a new window (as opposed to a tab), then in about:config set "mail.tabs.autoHide" to "true".
I do somehow get the impression that its future is uncertain though - development seems slow and uneventful these days, almost as if they're just going through the motions. I guess most non-corporate users will find Gmail/Hotmail etc good enough nowadays (the web interface, that is), to the point where a "traditional" email client is mostly irrelevant.