Mac email client?
Nov 24, 2008 | 6:55 am
#31
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I'm moving from PCs to Mac. I've been really, really happy with Firefox and Thunderbird.
Should I stick with Thunderbird? V3 will integrate with Address Book and iCal, so I hear. I'm reluctant to move to Apple Mail when I've been so happy with Thunderbird all this time. But I can also see some advantages to Apple Mail...chiefly in integration with Spotlight, iCal, Address book, etc.
Should I stick with Thunderbird? V3 will integrate with Address Book and iCal, so I hear. I'm reluctant to move to Apple Mail when I've been so happy with Thunderbird all this time. But I can also see some advantages to Apple Mail...chiefly in integration with Spotlight, iCal, Address book, etc.
Nov 24, 2008 | 7:24 am
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Thunderbird is pretty good and I don't think you'll regret sticking with it, but after switching between Thunderbird, Entourage 2008, and built-in Mail, I think it's the lesser of the three.
Mail.app's comprehensive inbox view across multiple servers, integrated Spotlight, and "mac-ness" make it my favorite. That being said, I use Entourage because I need calendar support for Exchange accounts and iCal is too clunky.
Mail.app's comprehensive inbox view across multiple servers, integrated Spotlight, and "mac-ness" make it my favorite. That being said, I use Entourage because I need calendar support for Exchange accounts and iCal is too clunky.
Nov 24, 2008 | 9:22 am
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You *CAN* access Public Folders and Calendar from this method as well under Edit Account, Advanced Settings, Public Folder Settings, Public Folder Server:
webmail.yourcompanyname.com/public
(ENSURE NO http:// is in front of this - this URL will be the same as the above one, minus the http:// (or https:// and will have a /public at the end instead of a /exchange )
webmail.yourcompanyname.com/public
(ENSURE NO http:// is in front of this - this URL will be the same as the above one, minus the http:// (or https:// and will have a /public at the end instead of a /exchange )
Nov 24, 2008 | 9:29 am
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Thunderbird is pretty good and I don't think you'll regret sticking with it, but after switching between Thunderbird, Entourage 2008, and built-in Mail, I think it's the lesser of the three.
Mail.app's comprehensive inbox view across multiple servers, integrated Spotlight, and "mac-ness" make it my favorite. That being said, I use Entourage because I need calendar support for Exchange accounts and iCal is too clunky.
Mail.app's comprehensive inbox view across multiple servers, integrated Spotlight, and "mac-ness" make it my favorite. That being said, I use Entourage because I need calendar support for Exchange accounts and iCal is too clunky.
Nov 24, 2008 | 9:39 am
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I used Eudora on the Mac for over 10 years. There are still unique features on it that I miss which no other client has. (Like option-clicking a sender within a mail list to instantly cluster all messages in the box from that sender.) Now I use webmail, or Thunderbird when I need to push old mail around with IMAP.
Nov 24, 2008 | 10:34 am
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The reason I ditched Thunderbird on the Mac was its complete inability to make any sense whatsoever of stuff pasted from another application. A simple table (like an itin) copied from Firefox becomes two pages of randomly-formatted-and-aligned garbage when pasted into Thunderbird.
Nov 24, 2008 | 1:14 pm
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Wirelessly posted (Nokia E71: Opera/9.50 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/4.2.13057/362; U; en))
Mail.app + Quicksilver = killer combination.
Originally Posted by kjsaw
Mail.app the client provided as part of OS X is very good. I miss it when I am not using a Mac.
Last edited by Robbiedeluxe; Nov 24, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Nov 27, 2008 | 9:39 pm
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I'd like to see Qualcomm sell/give the source code to Mozilla so that T-bird could incorporate some of Eudora's functionality.
The EOLing of Eudora was the final straw that pushed me over to webmail anyway.
