laura_seabrook | Tired of Thunderbird (Reply)

I swapped over to Thunderbird a while ago, from The Bat. There are times when I wish I hadn't. Despite numerous requests from myself and others. Thunderbird still does not have (even as an add-on) outgoing filters (that is, you can set up where to send copies of your outgoing mail instead of just SENT), nor tags for contacts (that is, you can have an on spec list of contacts based on one or more tags in their record) which The Bat (and Outlook) had for a long long time. And this has mattered to me, but I just ignored the fact that nobody could be bothered to work on either in Thunderbird.

My original reason for swapping to Thunderbird was I wanted to have an email client that worked both in Windows and Linux, because I intended to have dual boot systems. That didn't effectively happen until the end of last year, and now all the PCs I have are dual boot. There's a new version of Thunderbird out (v10) and I dutifully installed it on the Studio PC, and lo and behold a major issue - can't actually see the message pane any more when I scroll through messages, and when I open it in in a new pane the header and message appear at the bottom of the tab with a huge open space above! No doubt there's a fix, but every time I've installed updates to Thunderbird I've had similar issues and problems, and the wankers who design it don't include updates for the features I want.

Nothing wrong with Firefox (though I have had similar ussues with its updates as well) and because it's one of two (the other being Explorer) browsers supported at the uni I shall probably continue to use it at home - but I don't see any reason why I should stick with Thunderbird when it continues not to meet my needs. So, as of now, I'm in the the market for a new cross-platform email client. It should have: