Why do people love Thunderbird?

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daz said:
Thunderbird is a terrible piece of software.
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What don't you like about it?

I use Outlook 2003 at work and Thunderbird at home, both do exactly what I need... send/receive email. :)

Performance wise, it loads instantly for me, has never crashed, easy to use and navigate. I managed to setup 3 email accounts quite easily with automated rules and even link it into Hotmail. Just opened up Thunderbird now, not doing anything in it, and it's using 24Mb of RAM. Don't know what the Outlook equivalent is, anyone help out? :) Also I can minimise it to the tray on the right-hand side thanks to a cool little mod.

Hardly rubbish.
 
Thunderbird user here...been using it for several years. It does exactly what it says on the tin, is stable and secure. Can't ask for more than that from an email client.

I think Daz, you may need to actually present a constructive argument instead of starting a pointless thread like this one!
 
Used to use it, then it started becoming slow and problematic (lost my entire mail store twice) and no matter what it's junk mail filters just seemed to get worse and worse. Now using Live mail which is far better.
 
Not sure anyone really 'loves' Thunderbird, but version 3 is shaping up to be a pretty decent client. It's been better than all the alternatives for yonks anyway, Outlook included.
 
I like TB3 (it's certainly faster by a long way and less "bloated" than Outlook for my needs, but I'm hardly a typical mail user).

I'm more interested in what's coming next - the focus for TB3 seems to have become getting a final release out ASAP at the expense of some of the interesting features (like the massively rejigged search and minimised message header panel thing). That said, TB2 was released in April 2007 and boy does it show.
 
I use it on my Linux laptop and has been fine for me. I feel some of the options are in odd places occasionally but apart from that it's quite easy to use.

And yes it would be nice to know why the OP dislikes it.
 
afraser2k said:
Works fine for my needs, POP for Virgin Media, IMAP for Work and Google Mail.

I'm currently using Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 3.
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How are you finding TB3? I've been reluctant to try the beta if only because I run an eBay business and the last thing I need is a bug that could wipe out loads of emails!

Looking forward to the full release though.
 
I started using it because of the old 2GB PST problem in Outlook (and because Outlook bogged down to almost unusable levels). Took me a good while to get my email in properly (the default import back then was awful as it converted everything to text) but once there it's been fantastic. I currently have 10490 emails in my main IMAP inbox, another 4000 or so in IMAP subfolders plus around 6-7000 in a pop account and the thing is very snappy indeed.

Don't use the junk mail filters as our server is very good at catching spam, my only current annoyance is with Nod32's integration as it makes emails disappear for a few seconds whilst scanning which delays opening them.
 
I like Thunderbird. I used Outlook for a bit, but went back to TB because Outlook seemed much slower and more bloated. (Outlook also has loads more features, but most of them aren't going to be used outside of an office environment.)

Thunderbird is small, easy to use, and I don't think it's ever crashed. What's to dislike?

I get the feeling it doesn't receive much love within Mozilla, though. It must be a much less complex undertaking than Firefox, and yet we haven't seen a new version in over two years?
 
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Simple, WebMail add-on. Though to be honest been using Thunderbird for years now & not tried/used any of the others
 
I use Outlook at work and used to use Thunderbird at home. Did find it quite slow, but that was mainly due to having it's mail store on quite a slow network drive, but generally it was a pretty reasonable mail client. Before that I used Pegasus Mail which was ok to.

Now I tend to get GMail to pick up mail from various accounts as it's easier and accessible and searchable from anywhere. Mail is saved locally just using the Apple Mail application.
 
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