Comments on: Hands On Review of Thunderbird 3

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:19:00 +0000

I wouldn’t, if you can download version 3.0.3 its very stable, most add-ons even old ones seem to entwine smoothly. Wait for the bugs after this version to smooth out. Been with Thunderbird for 2 years years now and its bliss compared to the bloated OL.

By: Johnny Canuck

Johnny Canuck — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:56:00 +0000

I’ve been using TB since version 1. It works absolutely fine with our IMAP-based Exchange servers, and POP3 (which is what I use exclusively). I receive/handle 100-150 emails a day, from 7 different accounts, and TB3 handles them all perfectly. Never had a single crash. Ever. And, unlike Outlook, TB3 doesn’t store everything in a proprietary format that forces you to use Outlook to look at old messages. If I can’t open up an old archive of email with nothing more elegant than an ASCII editor, I don’t want it.

And as for webmail? Please. I use Gmail only to collect the mail, which I then download right into TB3. I have far more control in handling the mail in TB3 than I do in GMail (or any other webmail client I’ve ever tried).

So, big thumbs up from me for TB3 (and previous incarnations).

By: Nigel D

Nigel D — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:28:00 +0000

I was a total convert from Outlook to TB2 (and Outlook is a hard act to follow). But since I upgraded to 3.1.4, I’ve had more problems that I want from an e-mail client. It hangs for 30 seconds at a time and my RSS feeds… well, they just don’t work.

My e-mail AND RSS feeds are critical to my work… I’ve searched for answers but can’t find any… Wondering if it’s time to look for something else, or go back to Outlook.

By: Falan

Falan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:09:46 +0000

Thunderbird 3.0.4, Lightning 1.0b1 with View->Display Attachments Inline checked
I have a meeting invitation from Outlook but there is no option to accept it.
I've read about the "Display Attachments Inline" bug, so I've set that.
I've also read that you are supposed to enable Javascript to get this to work, but TB3 doesn't support Javascript in email attachments.
So what is the solution to integrating Outlook invitations?
For me this was the primary motivation for installing Thunderbird. Without this feature will have to consider TB2 or Evolution.
Please advise.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:19:29 +0000

I also use Tbird 3 every day and am very happy with it. I can see how others may not like it though. I added an email account and suddenly all the emails in my existing account were gone. Emails from my old computer, imported in, and for the last 6 months of use.

If you ever figure out how to re-create these emails (I think they're still there somewhere), I'll be a more complete convert.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:43:47 +0000

Thanks for your “positive” cents. It is definitely useful and helpful for others.

By: Anders Vinther

Anders Vinther — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:36:49 +0000

I use Thunderbird every day in combination with Gmail, and I am very happy with it.

I much prefer Thunderbird over any of the other email clients, but of course such a choice is for a large part down to personal preference. One big difference between Thunderbird and the rest of the pack is that T-Bird works better with multiple email addresses than the other clients...

Just thought I'd add my two positive cents :-)

By: Anders Vinther

Anders Vinther — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:36:49 +0000

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:03:46 +0000

Personally, I have used it and I find it quite useful for my day to day email management, but I am surprise at the number of comments about their dissatisfaction with TB3. I guess the Mozilla team really need to do something about it to savage the situation. Let hope it will get better in the next release.

By: Shubhrakant

Shubhrakant — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:25:42 +0000

I have been a great fan of TB. But TB has fallen with release of TB3. TB3 is one of the worst softwares I have seen because it crashes almost at 70-80% of installations, in our organisation. It may due to an add-on but can't TB3 have a safety feature whereby TB3 remains unaffected but the add-on becomes dysfunctional till restart/re-launch.

By: guest 409

guest 409 — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:57:15 +0000

T-bird 3 is terrible, all of the menus (eg. spam, delete, etc) leave little space for the message.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:06:02 +0000

I have had this problem too. I use popfile to classify my emails into folders other than the inbox. Thunderbird 3 shows the message both in the inbox and the folder I relocated it to. Other than shutting it down, reindexing the inbox is all I've found to fix the problem. This did not happen in TB2. That and some of the other index problems have forced me to go back to TB 2 company wide.

By: todd

todd — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:13:02 +0000

This version of TBird SUX… it has a run-away index tool which has reindexed my freaking mail about 30 times. This tool is SHIT – flaming merde…

sorry its coming off my machine as soon as I get home and can loose the machine for 20 hours. What a freaklin piece of SHIT…

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:12:24 +0000

Thanks for pointing it out.

By: Anders Vinther

Anders Vinther — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:41:38 +0000

You might want to highlight that a side effect of using the PPA method is that your Firefox will also be updated to the daily build version and renamed to Namoroka.

By: Steve Gates

Steve Gates — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:34:47 +0000

Hello,
You may have already figured this out by now. If not, you can change this under Tools, account settings, server settings. Look for Server Name towards the top and put in the correct POP and port (995)

By: AndersVinther

AndersVinther — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:34:58 +0000

Apart from the non-existing Linux installation instructions this is a breeze to setup…

By: jack

jack — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:06:17 +0000

Cancel my last post
I have been to one of the Thunderbird sites and it seems tha a number of people are having problems with TB3, some are reverting to TB2, and one suggests that TB3 should be labeled as :Beta”

By: jack

jack — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:06:00 +0000

By: jack

jack — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:11:38 +0000

I have thunderbird 2 set up and working. The wizard made it easy.Is there any way of either updating to 3 , or installing, without using the “3 line” program that you show in your blog?
Thanks