Thunderbird vs. OE

[Warhammer]

Which is better? Has anyone made the change? Does T-bird save disk space over OE?

[gstelmack]

Anything is better than OE, IMNSHO. Never could figure out its interface, and at one company I worked for I lost my entire address book when they tried to set up a network share with a company-wide address book. I hate Outlook with a passion.

It's still a tossup with me as to whether Thunderbird or Eudora are better. Thunderbird is being updated more regularly and has a decent SPAM filter, but seems to perform worse than Eudora did. If I ALT-TAB from a compile over to Thunderbird, it seems to take a bit to appear, where Eudora would just pop up.

[Emiliano]

Anything is better than OE, IMNSHO.

I agree 100%. I use Thunderbird regularly, never had any sort of problem. I think the anti-spam filter is great. It "learns" which e-mails are trash and which not.
I'd suggest try to install Thunderbird, you'll notice the difference. And if you don't want to try Thunderbird, anything is better than Outlook...

[Mustang]

I'm not a big wine or malt liquor fan but, if I absolutely had to pick one.. I guess I'd go with Olde English over Thunderbird...

[Karim]

I've been using Thunderbird for a while now instead of Outlook. In fact, I'd go back to IE before Outlook. FireFox still has trouble with some pages whereas Thunderbird has been integrated seamlessly into XP.

[judicial clerk]

I completely thought this was about drinking thunderbird or Old English 800 malt liquor. Then I though Gstelmack's post was a joke. Now i don't know what to think.

[Daimyo]

I like Outlook 2003 okay (Not Outlook Express... totally different products... couldn't imagine using OE). I switched to Thunderbird because Outlook 2003 was choking on the volume of email I had at the time. I'd reccomend average users to stick with Outlook, but if you're a power user or willing to spend a bit of extra time for the payoff Thunderbird is really, really nice. I didn't know anyone used Eudora anymore... that was my first email client and I used that up until maybe 4 years ago, but Outlook XP passed it by and Outlook 2003 kills it IMO.

[jbmagic]

Thunderbird is very good.

Thunderbird and Firefox browser a great combo to have