[pmmail-list] thunderbird?

[David M. Nelson]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:30:41 -0400, Mike Kilroy wrote:

>Anyone had experience switching to thunderbird and want to share?

I still use PMMail for personal mail and Thunderbird for business.
(HTML e-mail to my personal addresses gets deleted unread.) Thunderbird
at least allows me to filter HTML to various levels, and I *always*
leave it set to *not* download remote images. Even better, Thunderbird
knows how to /emphasize/ traditional *plain* text formatting.

Unfortunately, it still lacks (or I can't find) the following useful
features compared to PMMail:

  * Remote control for POP3. Sometimes you just need to deal with
annoying large messages on the server and not locally.

  * Reply/Forward with selected text only.

  * An equivalent to PMMail's "Bounce" feature.

  * Attachment indicators for e-mails don't show up until you read the
message. (It makes the indicator kind of pointless, doesn't it?)

  * The Bayesian spam filtering is nice, but still isn't quite as
effective as my custom ICSL filters for PMMail. (This is probably just
a learning-curve thing--I've been tweaking PMMail for over ten(?) years
now.)

  * The arrow indicators in PMMail are better at indicating e-mail in a
parent, child, or both directories when collapsed. Thunderbird just
shows bold text to indicate that there is e-mail *somewhere* in the
tree.

Considering that Thunderbird is still only a preview release, this is
not bad at all. I just have to unlearn many years of PMMail keyboard
shortcuts.

--
David M. Nelson
<solomani@earthlink.net>


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