Email advice, Thunderbird vs Apple Mail

[tuthill]

Guys! Thanks to some posts in this thread I tried Postbox as I was also looking for an alternative to Mac OS X Mail and originally considered Thunderbird. Even though Mail worked good I was looking for a more complex alternative to handle my mails professionally. After trying Postbox for a couple days I won't be switching back to Mail. Postbox integrates flawless with my gmail account and gets my mails organized just the right way. No more different sent mail account to search when using desktop application as well as iPad. Even return receipts I can request again, one of the lacking features in Mail.
Give it a try, I'm very happy with Postbox.

I am also a paying Postbox customer but I've switched back to Mail due to Postbox sharing Thunderbird's behaviour of not always showing inline graphics inline on both received and sent email. That is a deal breaker for me and I suspect that it won't be fixed in Postbox until it is fixed in Thunderbird. I liked everything else about it with the exception of the limited support for plugins.

 

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Wondering about going back to TB because a downfall for Mail is trying to e-mail iCal entries to non-Mac users. I exported a bunch of calendar entries and had a problems getting a friend to import them into Outlook. I brought up TB2, attached them, sent the mail and they imported flawlessly. This is a biggie.

TB2 doesn't seem to import my contacts -- at least it doesn't integrate with Mac contacts.

I cannot sync Notes to my iPhone without Mail.app.

Maybe I'll look at PostOffice. Maybe I'll look at TB3. Probably I'll stick with Mail and bring up TB only when I need to send out ics appointments.

Frank

 

[Knuthf]

Slow and buggy? Are we using the same program? I've had ZERO problems with Thunderbird for Mac, and love the fact that I can share mailboxes across platforms. The plugins are fantastic. I don't use the filtering, since that's done server-side.

Having said that, I'm going to give Mail.app and Postbox a try to see what I'm missing. But I've been really happy with Thunderbird - it's a very capable, stable client with tons of options. The differences we are talking about are primarily of person preference rather than true functionality, IMHO.

The Apple "Mail" is useless for those of us that receive hundreds of emails daily, and need to sort them, organize, filter. Mail looks good, but where you have 1000 folders, and New York Times is not to go into a project directory, not be mixed with the high-priority messages from Jim in Korea, sorry fellas, TB does it in a wink.
However, TB has a problem with the Apple MBOX indexing (as does Mail) - so I may ditch even MacOS, and run only Linux. I do not have time to mark every folder that is to be included in a filter, unless you make that easier. I also need to get the search speed comparable, and finally, PGP encryption, Spamassasin - with IMAP, removal of duplicated messages and ful stationary to bother to consider Apple's Mail.

 

[ghostlyorb]

I use a couple IMAP accounts across multiple platforms. For me, I could not use the Mail application because of a couple reasons:

1) Does not support multiple identities per email account. I have several aliases I use for different mailing lists, etc, and I have to use that identity to send email to that list, or it is not allowed. Even Thunderbird is much more of a pain than 15 year old "pine" software from a UNIX shell.

2) It's much easier to move between platforms, Linux, BSD, Windows and Mac when they are all using Thunderbird, instead of Thunderbird, Kmail, Mail, etc.

3) SSL certificates. My mail servers' certificates are all signed by CAs that are not installed by default. This leads to Mail prompting me endlessly to accept the certificate. It's not really annoying, but a nuisance.

Honestly, though, I am probably more demanding on an email program than 99% of the folks that use email. The Mail application is probably good for most people that only have one account hosted by someone else, like yahoo, etc.

-jt2

I have 5 e-mail accounts within Mail. From POP to Exchange...

 

[dizzydot]

Sorry to hi-jack...

Sorry to hi-jack this thread but it seemed an appropriate place to ask this question..

I'm completely new to Macs (only got my MBP a few days ago). At present I use Thunderbird on my PC laptop and have some messages in mailboxes that I really want to keep. Is there an easy way of transferring the mail boxes (and the saved messages) from Thunderbird on my PC to mail on my MBP?

I've already set up mail on my MBP with my account details and use POP3 if this has any relevence.

If there is can someone please explain it in step-by-step dummy format for me?

Thanks in advance.

dizzy.