Mac Mail vs. Thunderbird

drumpat01

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Jul 12, 2006

• #1

Ok i loooked around and although there have been many threads on email clients I'm a numbers kind of guy so I thought I'd make a poll for it. Feel free to leave comments 🙂

 

digger1914

macrumors newbie

• Jul 12, 2006

• #2

I used Thunderbird on my PC, but since I moved to the world of Mac I find Mail does all i want in a mail app.

 

BiikeMike

macrumors 65816

• Jul 12, 2006

• #3

digger1914 said:

I used Thunderbird on my PC, but since I moved to the world of Mac I find Mail does all i want in a mail app.

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Bingo!

Thunderbird FAR excells Outlook/Outlook Express in the PeeCee world, but once I switched to mail, I haven't even tried Thunderbird.

 

bigandy

macrumors G3

• Jul 12, 2006

• #4

i used to find thunderbird really useful, with this little doodad:

http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/

it makes thunderbird crossplatform from the plugging in of your usb stick and carries all your mail with it.

of course, now i have a dedicated server, with IMAP, and there's no need, because it's constantly synced with my mac on Mail.app, Tunderbird at work, and my Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA phone.

😀

 

BiikeMike

macrumors 65816

• Jul 12, 2006

• #5

bigandy said:

of course, now i have a dedicated server, with IMAP, and there's no need, because it's constantly synced with my mac on Mail.app, Tunderbird at work, and my Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA phone.

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Nerd! 😉

 

balamw

Moderator emeritus

• Jul 12, 2006

• #6

I find myself using webmail (gmail) more often than not these days...

I like Mail.app, but it doesn't handle occasional IMAP syncs with my work mailbox very well, TBird does that better...

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Mitthrawnuruodo

Moderator emeritus

• Jul 12, 2006

• #7

What is .Mail?

I use Mail.app. Haven't yet found a reason to try anything else since I migrated from Eudora once Mail got rid of most of the bug. Some time during 10.2, I think it was...

On PCs there really isn't any competition for Thunderbird, the way I see it, but since I'm on my MacBook 99% of the time I rarely get to use it... 😉

 

dpaanlka

macrumors 601

• Jul 12, 2006

• #8

Mail is simple and elegant. I love it.

 

OnceUGoMac

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 12, 2006

• #9

Another vote for Mail.

 

mduser63

macrumors 68040

• Jul 12, 2006

• #10

I've seen the occasional complaint about Mail, but I love it. It handles my 8 main email accounts (mix of POP3 and IMAP) flawlessly, and doesn't slow down with the thousands of messages that I have.

I haven't used a PC as my main machine since before Thunderbird came out, so I can't say I have a really strong opinion either way on it. I set my mom up with it on her PC and she has no complaints, but then again she's not exactly a demanding user.