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Baz · Mar 19, 2008, 17:32:51

does anyone use thunderbird as their email prog.

pros and cons......

Rik · Mar 19, 2008, 17:34:39

I tried it, Baz, but I found it didn't work too well with digitally signed mail.

Simon · Mar 19, 2008, 17:37:17

I use it, and have no problems. What do you want to know, Baz?

Baz · Mar 19, 2008, 17:39:08

do you use digitally signed stuff a lot Rik.

I ask about Thunderbird as, once again, its one of those progs that I tried before but couldnt get used to it, maybe I just didnt give it long enough. The prob I had was one of having different identities in Thunderbird. where we were used to easily switching from one user to another with Outlook Express, it wasnt so straight forward in TB, having to get add ons and using passwords a few times etc. maybe its different now, thats why I was thinking of trying again, also getting loads of spam recently in OE.....

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Rik · Mar 19, 2008, 17:41:09

Quote from: Baz on Mar 19, 2008, 17:39:08
do you use digitally signed stuff a lot Rik.

I used to, Baz, as some of the work I did really needed verification. I still do if I need to email a bank or solicitor, say.

Baz · Mar 19, 2008, 17:42:19

I still have TB on my system, Version 2.0.0.12. is that the latest

ignore this

just checked and it says there is an update available but says its the version I have

Rik · Mar 19, 2008, 17:46:30

Who said that?

scook94 · Mar 19, 2008, 17:47:36

I use TB all the time, have never had any issues with it (apart from when I used to flirt with trunk builds). I use Enigmail plug-in combined with GnuPG for encryption and digital signing, again, no issues...

Simon · Mar 19, 2008, 17:52:05

You can now have a global Inbox, Baz, if you don't want everything going to separate accounts. As for spam, it won't stop it, but you may find it manages it better, once you've got it trained a bit.

Den · Mar 19, 2008, 19:32:27

I find that Outlook 2007 sorts spam realy well and is fuss free.

Rik · Mar 19, 2008, 19:33:43

I don't get any spam. I really appreciate all these people wanting to help me out in such personal areas.

Lance · Mar 19, 2008, 19:42:27

A massive vote for Outlook from me as the best client (2007 is my fav, but both XP and 2003 are good too!).

Simon · Mar 19, 2008, 21:38:15

I have no problem with Outlook, but while using Firefox, Thunderbird seems the logical choice.

Rik · Mar 20, 2008, 09:23:27

Not to me, it doesn't.

Simon · Mar 20, 2008, 10:01:07

Well, you have to be different!

Rik · Mar 20, 2008, 10:01:43

Naturally.

Malc · Mar 20, 2008, 10:09:57

Naturally different, as in two heads amd six legs?

Rik · Mar 20, 2008, 10:10:50

No AMD here, Malc, I'm all Intel.

Malc · Mar 20, 2008, 10:12:00

But how many processers?

Rik · Mar 20, 2008, 10:12:40

Six.

Malc · Mar 20, 2008, 10:14:32

Thought you'd have the most.

Rik · Mar 20, 2008, 10:15:39

One for every limb...

plugwash · Mar 21, 2008, 00:45:47

Quote from: Lance on Mar 19, 2008, 19:42:27
A massive vote for Outlook from me as the best client (2007 is my fav, but both XP and 2003 are good too!).

2000 at least had a habbit of corrupting PST files a lot and while there was a repair tool the repaired files were never quite right afterwards (a bit issue I ran into was emails that could be viewed fine but could not be copied into a new clean PST file). I don't know if this has improved in later versions. The fact I had some hard drive related issues probablly didn't help.

I preffer apps that store my important data in an open format that if worst comes to worst I can write my own parser for.