Comments on: Exit Outlook 2007, Enter Thunderbird 2 http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:53:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rahul http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2185 Rahul Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:24:23 +0000 http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/#comment-2185 Bipin, i.) I've never been an IMAP fan for precisely that - performance and drag. ii.) Should prob. have updated this post. Lost all my data when my hard disk crashed a few weeks ago. Have moved almost to an almost exclusively online lifestyle, and I daresay it's working well. Details on how I migrated my life online here: http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/04/14/moving-to-an-online-life/ Bipin,

i.) I’ve never been an IMAP fan for precisely that – performance and drag.

ii.) Should prob. have updated this post. Lost all my data when my hard disk crashed a few weeks ago. Have moved almost to an almost exclusively online lifestyle, and I daresay it’s working well.

Details on how I migrated my life online here: http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/04/14/moving-to-an-online-life/

]]> By: Bipin http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2184 Bipin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:03:35 +0000 http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/#comment-2184 hmmm..reading your post i was quite impressed and wanted to ask you directly as to what protocol you were using for mail downloading. I am more than positive that your experience using thunderbird would be really great from all perspective except...the mail downloading part. If you were to use pop3 there isn't much of a problem cause you don't need a server copy...but IMAP would be a drag and not something I prefer running on my office laptop. BTW it works well on my desktop where I constantly poll my mail server and also ensure that I download the mail for off-line use.I've used multiple other mail clients and with all I have the same problem. IMAP as a protocol was not built for speed. Infact with Evolution I tried OWA (Outlook Web Access), where it polls the exchange server through web. This was also a drag. Unfortunately exchange needs Outlook....after all that is how they keep people like me from moving to linux. hmmm..reading your post i was quite impressed and wanted to ask you directly as to what protocol you were using for mail downloading. I am more than positive that your experience using thunderbird would be really great from all perspective except…the mail downloading part. If you were to use pop3 there isn’t much of a problem cause you don’t need a server copy…but IMAP would be a drag and not something I prefer running on my office laptop. BTW it works well on my desktop where I constantly poll my mail server and also ensure that I download the mail for off-line use.I’ve used multiple other mail clients and with all I have the same problem. IMAP as a protocol was not built for speed. Infact with Evolution I tried OWA (Outlook Web Access), where it polls the exchange server through web. This was also a drag. Unfortunately exchange needs Outlook….after all that is how they keep people like me from moving to linux.

]]> By: Rahul http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1138 Rahul Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:23:38 +0000 http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/#comment-1138 I'm not sure how long I'll stick to Thunderbird, Venky. I'm not enjoying the experience too much. More on that in an update to this post. I’m not sure how long I’ll stick to Thunderbird, Venky. I’m not enjoying the experience too much.

More on that in an update to this post.

]]> By: Venkat http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1125 Venkat Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:27:46 +0000 http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/03/02/exit-outlook-2007-enter-thunderbird-2/#comment-1125 I am glad that you ditched Outlook for Thunderbird. I have using Thunderbird since God knows when. It is fast, easy to you and best part fully customizable. Ever since I started using it I have had 100s of computer crashes, resulting in 100s of OS re-install and changes. Never have I had any problems getting my mail,contacts and appointments back to the way they were before and all this was so easy. Only thing I am waiting for, is a mobile device with Thunderbird in it. I do not know of any. If you have any suggestions. Please feel to email me. I am glad that you ditched Outlook for Thunderbird. I have using Thunderbird since God knows when. It is fast, easy to you and best part fully customizable. Ever since I started using it I have had 100s of computer crashes, resulting in 100s of OS re-install and changes. Never have I had any problems getting my mail,contacts and appointments back to the way they were before and all this was so easy. Only thing I am waiting for, is a mobile device with Thunderbird in it. I do not know of any. If you have any suggestions. Please feel to email me.

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