Thunderbird Vs Outlook: Fight!
Sunday, December 12th, 2004 at 4:01 amCathleen Moore, over at InfoWorld, is asking ‘Can Thunderbird ride the Firefox wave?‘, and I believe it can. She says that Firefox took off because it had Internet Explorer to fight against, and I believe Thunderbird has an even larger enemy to compete against: Outlook Express.
This email client is a nightmare for computer repair techs because of the crushing load that spam and email viruses deal. Thunderbird, with its built in spam filter, should be filtering most, if not all, this trash getting sent to users. (Of course, it only takes one virus to ruin anyone’s day.) I think it is also a plus that it can act as a RSS syndication reader.
Even if the world at large doesn’t think these are big features, people will be saying ‘Hey, this Firefox rocks, I wonder if the Mozilla project has any other cool things to downlaod and try.’ Having Firefox as it’s big sister does help a lot.
I have started using Thunderbird very recently, but have one question:
Is it possible to synchronise and backup recieved e-mail in Thunderbird? I used to use Microsoft Outlook, and only switched to Thunderbird really because of it’s association with Firefox.
I have tens of thousands of archived messages currently sat in Thunderbird, and am dreading a hard disk failure…
I imagine so, but you probably want to ask here.
Competitors are Thunderbirds and Outlook Express. Outlook has some extended features unavailables on Thunderbird, as easy PDA synchro, calendar sharing with Exchange.
By the way, Thunerbird has nice features that rocks over Outlook Express, as themes, extensions, easy multiple accounts management …