11/7/2004

Mozilla

Filed under: — Dave @ 3:41 pm

I’ve been using Eudora for PC email for the last five or six years. It’s pretty full-featured and does most of what I want to do, and getting a free license from the day job doesn’t hurt either. But it’s got an annoying habit of choking on email every so often and basically scrambling an entire mailbox in the process–I can “rebuild the table of contents”, whatever that means, and get to my mail in that folder after doing that, but I have to do that each time I want to get to anything in there. With a 25,000 message Inbox, the rebuild takes a while, and this has become a significant source of irritation for me.

After being bitten by this problem for the third time in about a year, I decided to change mail clients. I’m never going to use Outlook Express and Virus Propogator while Microsoft does such a poor job of shielding users from viruses and garbage, so that was out. The only other major option I could think of was Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client, so I decided to give that a try.

So far I’ve been very happy with it. It does most of what I used Eudora for, and throws in a lot of additional functionality besides. Upon installation Thunderbird was able to import all of my email from Eudora (even the corrupted mailboxes), and now I’ve got it all available to me. The client supports multiple accounts, has plenty of filtering options, and even tries to detect spam. Best of all, of course, it’s open-source and free.

I’m now using Mozilla products for browsing and for email, and if you’d have told me around the time of Netscape 4.x that I’d be doing that in November 2004, I’d have had a good laugh at you.

1 Comment »

  1. And of course right after this was posted Firefox 1.0 was released, so that’s another product you might be interested in.

    Comment by Dave — 11/10/2004 @ 7:38 pm

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