What are the pros and cons of switching from Outlook to Thunderbird (email client)?”
Outlook 2003 – Thunderbird Smack Down Cedric Beust, April 23rd 2003 I have never been able to settle for a long time on One True Email Client. Over the years, I typically switch back and forth between whatever the free client du jour is (used to be emacs + VM, then emacs + gnus, then Mozilla mail, then Thunderbird, then…) and Microsoft’s clients (Outlook Express, a long time ago, and more recently, Outlook 98, Outlook XP and Outlook 2003). I wish I didn’t have to do that but the fact is: email is very important for me and I am very unforgiving if my email client stops delivering the goods for my daily needs. A couple of years ago, I left Outlook because its IMAP support was very poor and kept locking up the interface. I switched to Mozilla Mail and then to Thunderbird. After using Thunderbird for six months and being relatively happy with it, its little quirks eventually got to me (more on this below) and I switched back to Outlook. Well, Outlook 2003 this time. It’s been a month now
