Mozilla Thunderbird? Anybody know anything?

[Bonhomme Richard]

Thinking about upgrading Mozilla to firefox and I wondered if anyone was familiar with the Thuderbird Mail program. Good, bad, whatever.

[mr_hat]

1. It's great! I scraped the MS sh!t right off my shoes

and never looked back.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. I've never had a good experience with Thunderbird.

Then again, I usually just drink it.

[havocmom]

3. my hubby uses it. He doesn't use the bells and whistles but I do

It is great.

[kick-ass-bob]

4. I use it constantly here at _ork.

Very clean and customizable.

[quisp]

5. had some trouble with v0.9 and

multiple accounts.

It was fixed in v1.0 and I love it!

[orthogonal]

6. Thuderbird Mail program

Good, I use it, had to switch after MS Outlook couldn't handle more than 6 or so accounts at once (Outlook kept dropping password of one or another).

Thunderbird is good but a bit wonky: pay attention to server setup, make sure you set it to auto-download message body, otherwise you'll be confused as hell when it informs you of new messages but none appear in inbox. Similarly, setting up passwords is arcane; you have to wait for first attempt to connect to server, and are then prompted for password, pain in the ass.

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Does it transfer all the settings. I have multiple accounts and

I really don't want to lose anything or worse, have to call my son to come over and fix it.

I use mozilla now and not outlook.

[Maestro]

8. It transfers address books

but I believe you have to set up the POP3 and SMTP settings of your ISP servers once again. I've used it now for almost a year without any problems.