Thunderbird: A Post-Mortem

Well, my dalliance with Thunderbird lasted a total of about 36 hours… In that time it bit the dust 5-6 times… I suspect it might have something to do with the 500 folders in my “Saved” folder, but who knows… I guess I could try Apple Mail but I don’t know if I feel like bothering with it…

4 thoughts on “Thunderbird: A Post-Mortem

  1. This was on MacOSX? Just curious. Thunderbird still has its warts, but it has been my primary Windoze client for a while.

    The main thing I’ve seen with it is it getting confused and not deleting emails (a restart fixes things), which only happens once every couple weeks.

    The other quibble I have is it doing stupid things with addresses. Once the LDAP server gets involved, it does stupid things. I sent email to the wrong person once because I changed what my address book/LDAP server came up with and Thunderbird decided I *meant* the next address returned by LDAP. This one happens semi-often if I don’t just pick one of the fill-in options.

    Once I found the quickfile extension, I stopped missing pine. I never got into mutt, it’s UI bugged me greatly…

    1. I’ve had tons of crashes on both OSX and XP…

      I always hated pine, and only started using it in the first place because of some limitation in elm that I can no longer remember… As far as mutt’s UI goes, I don’t really see how it functionally differs from pine…

      1. Most of it is it being different.

        However, it pissed me off to no end that the same keys kept meaning different things at different times. I know you can re-map keys, but it didn’t seem that going to all the effort to duplicate the same functionality was worth it. It just felt like I was using a bunch of little programs with different interfaces pretending to be one program.

        I still think about trying it out again from time to time, mainly when I see people talk about the neat hacks they can do with it.

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