Mozilla Thunderbird beta for Mac User Reviews
Spectacular
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"Replaces Mac's Boring Default Mail (Yay!)"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.5
Pros
Mozilla comes through again with Thundebird, another amazing free essential program. I was getting fed up with Mac's default mail program, boringly called Mail. To spice things up, add some ease-of-use and more functionality, I decided to try out Thunderbird, with blazing success.
With Thunderbird, I manage all my work email and personal accounts. Thunderbird's free junk mail filter is a great bonus. Security options are easy to adjust, as are setup options. And Thunderbird has the same features you'd expect from other full-featured programs like Outlook Express.
Thunderbird is easily configurable, can support many accounts, can be customized with themes and extensions, is secure and rock solid in terms of stability and reliability.
I think in the near future, with a few enhancements, I could be looking at replacing OE with Thunderbird at home. Despite heavy competition with OE, with its robust features Thunderbird is highly raveable. I recommend it, even if for nothing more than as a replacement for your default Mac Mail.
Cons
The one thing Thunderbird doesn't have--at least I've been unable to find it--is the ability to add a simple text signature to a message. It has a signature option, but how to get it to imprint a simple text signature is a mystery to me. I resorted to creating a small graphic instead.
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"Anemic usenet news reader"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.5
Pros
Free. Has spam filtering.
Cons
Worthless as a usenet newsreader since it cannot handle combining and decoding multipart messages, which is any of the multimedia posts. This has been an open issue since 11/2000. Outlook Express is better, and boy is that saying alot. I can't think of a current email program that doesn't have this capability.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60981
for bug details.
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"v1.0.7 is still better. Loosing my extensions in v1.5"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.5
Pros
Don't find any better.
Cons
As I said, loosing my extensions is a big con.
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"Rubbish"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.0.6
Pros
I cannot even download it!I keep going round in circles and get nowhere. Is this supposed to work for Mac.
I got Mozilla?
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"Another Great App by the people at Mozilla"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.0.6
Pros
This has got to be one of the best Email Programs i have seen in a l ong time. The interface is clean....its nice and smooth. Never had any trouble connecting to the Earthlink Proxy servers. Needs a Aqua theme though
Cons
Took me forever to set it up.
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"An Okay Program"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.0.6
Pros
Very nice interface and as weird as this seems the icon for the application is very nice.
Cons
Unfortunately, the responses you type show up at the bottom of the email after all the previous response on that particular thread of emails. For example, my friend didn't respond to a few of my emails because he didn't notice my responses because they were on the bottom and he thought he was just getting his emails right back at him.
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"Useless for OSX without Import from Outlook"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.0.6
Cons
There is no way to Import Addresses, Mail Boxes or Settings from Outlook Express. If you are a "Classic" user of Mac and you use OE, you know what I mean. If you want to start from scratch it's a great program.
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"very good"
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.0.6
Pros
The best mail program
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"It's a great client but missing some strange things."
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.0
Pros
Easy to use and full of features with a lot of add ons that are being written everyday. Spam stoppage is decent but some still gets through
Cons
A glaring hole in the software is that there is no ability to Auto Forward emails to another account. For instance, I have an email account for my Blackberry Phone and I want to have emails that come in from people in my address book to be sent to my phone address. Not possible and the official word is this is not a part of Thunderbird but perhaps I should write and extension for it... lol
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"Good, but lacking in innovation with uninteresting features."
Version: Mozilla Thunderbird beta 1.0
Pros
Good junk avoidance, decent layout, better than average customizability.
Cons
No reasons to switch from Mail.app. What's so different? RSS reader? That's what my browser is for. I like my mail client to get my email, filter out spam, display HTML occasionally, and look pretty. Mail.app does all that just as well or better than Thunderbird. And I can't import from Address Book or Mail, and if I could with a third party extension, so what? Nothing is new with this product, down to the junk-filtering system which mimics Apple's. A disappointment considering the superiority Firefox has over Safari. Thunderbird is ho-hum at best.
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