Originally Posted by
slawecki
in my continuing fiascos with mozilla, they sent a download upgrade for both thunderbird and firefox at the same time. they got seriously crossthreaded. thunderbird was so screwed up it demanded i have a POP service. i do not. it did a lot of other things that made mail service unworkable.
what is a replacement mail service, for MS and now for mozilla?
firefox also got screwed up in this latest DL mess. if i test the dl speed in iexplore, it is twice that of firefox. firefox is bogged down at least 10 fold. behaves like a phone connection, instead of cable. ie runs at normal speed.
i guess i will try chrome, but need an email package to go with it.
I'd not give up on thunderbird just because of this, and I also don't have POP connections but it works properly. Did it just give an error about a DLL unable to overwrite? I've had that happen once with POP and once with IMAP dlls, and that is actually a windows bug.
I haven't found anything on windows nearly as capable of handling large amount of email as tbird. Outlook is out of the question for me as I have over 500k email stored, and I can search them all in a matter of seconds on tbird.
on linux Evolution is an outlook like app and really nice. It is on version 3.x there is a windows version 2.28 from 2009 or early 2010 here:
http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/
I don't think it is missing anything to much, if you wanted to give it a try....but no promises on windows
