Thunderbird better than windows live mail?

kitfit1 · 7 Feb 2012 at 18:01

welshdragon said:
Cheers for that, shall take a look now. I suppose another reason to migrate off my hotmail account. I assume microsoft do this to keep you locked in?

No, no need to migrate off at all. Have a read of THIS. I've been using Thunderbird for years and have never had any problem with it downloading from Hotmail.

Vimes · 8 Feb 2012 at 08:34

Has anyone been able to easily rotate images when you are adding them to your email...? Doing that and resizing them is quite difficult.

CaptainCrash · 8 Feb 2012 at 09:29

kitfit1 said:
No, no need to migrate off at all. Have a read of THIS. I've been using Thunderbird for years and have never had any problem with it downloading from Hotmail.

That's a good catch, but only if you're happy to be stuck using POP3, which many people will find inconvenient these days.

The IzyMail service lets you use IMAP for a price, but if you're going to go down that route you might as well just forward your Hotmail to a Gmail account and effectively achieve the same thing for free.

Jakeee · 8 Feb 2012 at 11:54

welshdragon said:
Getting fed up with windows live mail. Finding it quite slow and thinking of a change. Is Thunderbird much cop? I've got outlook 2007 but not fussed on that. And I prefer a client on the pc to being completely web based. What do people think?

I use Gmail and Live Mail for home and Microsoft Outlook for work.

I find gmail best online and a minimal, clean UX, Live Mail best for basic home users and Outlook best for work/iphone intergration/customisation . . . I want to like Thunderbird because I am a big fan of Firefox but personally, I find it cluttered and a pain to set up, there are better options out there!