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who prefers 'mail' to 'thunderbird'?
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I find thunderbird doesn't work correctly with my IMAP accounts compared to Mail which works flawlessly. (eg deleting messages gives errors) Plus I like the mail interface better 
Yes -- in mail: file-import mailboxes -- check Thunderbird, etc.
I know people who've done this with Entourage without any major problems, but in any case, if there's a problem with the import, they'd still be there in Thunderbird. Then, you'd need to add your accounts to mail.
at MR. most people will prefer any apple products over 3rd party apps. you should just try for yourself.
I know I prefer the Apple products unless I have a compelling reason not to
Mail does all I need, so I have never really looked at an alternative
Woof, Woof - Dawg
cleven, I'd still like to know what you use. I use Thunderbird, but I never used mail enough to even get used to it. When I first started using mail, I had trouble embedding pics in messages, it seemed I had to take pics from iPhoto only which frustrated me and I gave up.
Mail.app's import doesn't work reliably with Thunderbird mail (at least it didn't in Tiger).
Use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to transfer Thunderbird mail to Mail. After the transfer you'll have to reindex your mailboxes. Or you could use IMAP.
I don't think I've ever had problems with pics and mail
What exactly was the issue?
Woof, Woof - Dawg
well, at least my post didn't show preference
!Im using thunderbird, mail.app has trouble retrieving my IMAP mails. There are other things I like about TB, such as easy color labeling of each message as I see fit, better display of simple math equations. I use 3 different OSes, Thunderbird gives me more familiar environment.
There are subjective reasons as well. Such as Open Source. etc
PS. I really hope TB3 will ship with tabbed UI, apparently it is still not working correctly at this stage.
I was trying to drag images from my desktop to a template. It's been awhile since I did it. I honestly am not sure if the problem was me or mail!I don't think I've ever had problems with pics and mail
What exactly was the issue?
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Mail.app totally wouldn't cope with my university e-mail IMAP account (deciding, for some reason, to also display my home directory and the files within as unremovable directories. Never could figure out why.) but Thunderbird worked just fine.
Thunderbird it is for me.
Unfortunately, I could never figure out how to get Thunderbird to work with Address Book instead of using its own.
Thunderbird it is for me.
Unfortunately, I could never figure out how to get Thunderbird to work with Address Book instead of using its own.
I use Mail, mainly because it's there, built-in already and good enough for my usage. I didn't really see anything in thunderbird or other mail programs that seemed like a 'must have' feature for me.
Of course, those fugly buttons in Mail still annoy me, but they can be dealt with
Of course, those fugly buttons in Mail still annoy me, but they can be dealt with
before I switched to mac several years ago, I was always a big Thunderbird fan. I still used Thunderbird on themac for a very long time. I originally tried mail.app, but it didn't seem to want to import mail from the one POP account I had (the rest were IMAP and worked great). Finally I tried it again right after I upgraded to Leopard on the day of release and it has been great. Much more responsive than Thunderbird ever was, and I like the Mac feel it has. I've never had any issues using it, and whenever an IMAP server is down, it has an icon to inform me, instead of me wondering what's wrong. If Thunderbird had been as quick as Mail, I would have probably stuck with it, but I really do like Mail a lot now.
Mail neither remembers nor forgets passwords. They are stored on your user keychain. When Mail unexpectedly asks for a mail account password it's just about always because of a problem with the connection or the IMAP/POP mail host.
I'm not a heavy emailer so I don't see any need migrating from Mail. I've used Outlook and Outlook Express in the past but Outlook was way too big for my needs and Express wouldn't send messages sometimes, send/recieve did nothing, I had to restart the app.
Mail (so far) has been problem free for me.
Mail (so far) has been problem free for me.
Thanks for that. I realised that the password is stored in Keychain , I was just trying to keep the post short..