The irony of this is not lost on me, as I introduced a large number of my friends and colleagues to the Joy of using Firefox (then Firebird).
In the many comments that were in the Spam Thread were suggestions that I use SpamBayes with Outlook and/or Thunderbird.
(It's worth noting that that original screenshot was on my little TabletPC, and that I DO in fact run Outlook 2003 in my real life.)
However, as IT Manager for my Family, I have to maintain the boxes of various cousins, great-uncles, wife, brother, etc. So, God help me, they've been running Outlook Express.
Why is the Fam so behind? Well, I can't give them all my MSDN Office Licenses, that wouldn't be "Right." But, largely I have been moving them to free software so I can sleep at night (and they can eat ;) ). Dad and Mom run http://www.OpenOffice.org and FireFox today.
I've been avoiding Thunderbird just because I'm REALLY not a fan of the whole "Mozilla" Suite. Mind you, it's the SUITE, not the Apps. But back in the day I tried the Mozilla Mail, and it just smacked too much of Netscape early on and I guess I got turned off.
But, I installed Thunderbird and I feel so strongly about it that I must reuse a metaphor - forgive me.
Comparing Thunderbird to Outlook Express is the difference between shooting a bullet...and throwing one.
I'm VERY impressed. As I looked around for features within the menus, I found everything I was looking for. Here's what I was most impressed with:
I suggest that if you have any relatives running Outlook Express, that you move them to Thunderbird tomorrow. Thanks Readers, for forcing me to take a second look at this piece of software!
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