Comments on: Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client – Reviewed http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/ Technology News, Reviews & How-To Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ron Schenone http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61029 Ron Schenone Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:50:16 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61029 Hello Don, Thanks for sharing your upgrade experience with us. I believe upgrading to W7 is a no brainer. Look over at The Oracle [aka Marc] and try the start menu program he found. It returns the start menu to the old way and you see everything. Love it! Have a great weekend. Hello Don,
Thanks for sharing your upgrade experience with us. I believe upgrading to W7 is a no brainer.

Look over at The Oracle [aka Marc] and try the start menu program he found. It returns the start menu to the old way and you see everything. Love it!

Have a great weekend.

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The only bummer this morning was seeing Philly lost to the dreaded Yankees!

]]> By: Buffet http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61027 Buffet Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:01:41 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61027 Thank you sir! Thank you sir!

]]> By: Ron Schenone http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61026 Ron Schenone Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:20:16 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61026 Sorry Buffet, Here it is. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_accounts_in_Thunderbird_for_popular_email_providers I found this. It is the instructions to setup Thunderbird, though the directions are for Outlook. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/930008 Sorry Buffet,
Here it is.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_accounts_in_Thunderbird_for_popular_email_providers

I found this. It is the instructions to setup Thunderbird, though the directions are for Outlook.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/930008

]]> By: Buffet http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61025 Buffet Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:53:00 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61025 I have MSN Premium, which costs me about 80.00 a year. I'm not seing the link? I have MSN Premium, which costs me about 80.00 a year. I’m not seing the link?

]]> By: Dustin Sabecky http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61024 Dustin Sabecky Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:35:28 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61024 I much prefer Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird. It looks much cleaner, and has an overall more comfortable feel. Just my opinion, thunderbird is far too rough edged and needs to come out with their new version that they've been 'working' on for 2 years now. I much prefer Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird. It looks much cleaner, and has an overall more comfortable feel. Just my opinion, thunderbird is far too rough edged and needs to come out with their new version that they’ve been ‘working’ on for 2 years now.

]]> By: Ron Schenone http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61023 Ron Schenone Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:14:24 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61023 Hi Buffet, There is a possibility that your MSN account may not work with TB. Below is a link on how to configure various accounts from different vendors, including MSN Premium accounts. However, if your account is one of the old MSN freebies [this is what I have as well], it won't work. :-( Like I stated in the review, I used a gmail account and the parameters were all setup for me. This made my job easy. Suggestion - get a free gmail mail account and give TB a try. The free gmail accounts are great to use for junk mail and helps to keep your personal email clean. Just a thought. Hope this helps. Ron Hi Buffet,
There is a possibility that your MSN account may not work with TB. Below is a link on how to configure various accounts from different vendors, including MSN Premium accounts. However, if your account is one of the old MSN freebies [this is what I have as well], it won’t work. :-(

Like I stated in the review, I used a gmail account and the parameters were all setup for me. This made my job easy.

Suggestion – get a free gmail mail account and give TB a try. The free gmail accounts are great to use for junk mail and helps to keep your personal email clean. Just a thought.

Hope this helps. Ron

]]> By: Ron Schenone http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61022 Ron Schenone Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:55:46 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61022 Hello virtualpilot45, If you go into Tools - Account Settings - Server Settings you can untick the box and 'leave the messages on the server'. Most email mail programs work about the same. You just have to know where to look. Hello virtualpilot45,
If you go into Tools – Account Settings – Server Settings you can untick the box and ‘leave the messages on the server’. Most email mail programs work about the same. You just have to know where to look.

]]> By: Buffet http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61021 Buffet Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:23:17 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61021 Ron, thanks very much for a wonderful in-depth review. Glad to hear your installation was so successful. Coincidentally, < 48 hours ago, I downloaded, and excitedly ATTEMPTED to install Thunderbird. Let's just say I didn't fare so well. Bear in mind that most lay folk, while not as neanderthalish as myself, are still light years from being as computer savvy as you Windows wunderkinds over at the Nexus. We occasionally might reach an impasse that you would not. Such is my (hopefully not unique) story. During the installation, it prompts you to assign an e-mail address. Can this be the same as the one I currently use, only with a different suffix, whatever that's supposed to be? Then, the next page asks for my incoming server and my outgoing server? WTF? That's as far as I got. I may be dumb, but at least I admit it. I have absolutely no bloody idea what these are! After careful deliberation, I bagged it and tagged it. I'd still like to attempt the install again one day, with the help of someone who can decipher thier insideous interrogitives. If that's not enough of a hint - HELP!!! So you know, the only e-mail I've ever used is the original MSN mail that came with MSN (not hotmail). I've used it since 2003. My broadband connection is through Insight cable. If you could ever see your way clear to showing a step by step, frame by frame, how-to installation for Thunderbird, I'm sure there's at least one or two other people out there in my situation (failed install) who'd be most grateful. Thanks for your time, and keep up the good work. Ron, thanks very much for a wonderful in-depth review. Glad to hear your installation was so successful. Coincidentally, < 48 hours ago, I downloaded, and excitedly ATTEMPTED to install Thunderbird. Let’s just say I didn’t fare so well. Bear in mind that most lay folk, while not as neanderthalish as myself, are still light years from being as computer savvy as you Windows wunderkinds over at the Nexus. We occasionally might reach an impasse that you would not. Such is my (hopefully not unique) story. During the installation, it prompts you to assign an e-mail address. Can this be the same as the one I currently use, only with a different suffix, whatever that’s supposed to be? Then, the next page asks for my incoming server and my outgoing server? WTF? That’s as far as I got. I may be dumb, but at least I admit it. I have absolutely no bloody idea what these are! After careful deliberation, I bagged it and tagged it. I’d still like to attempt the install again one day, with the help of someone who can decipher thier insideous interrogitives. If that’s not enough of a hint – HELP!!! So you know, the only e-mail I’ve ever used is the original MSN mail that came with MSN (not hotmail). I’ve used it since 2003. My broadband connection is through Insight cable. If you could ever see your way clear to showing a step by step, frame by frame, how-to installation for Thunderbird, I’m sure there’s at least one or two other people out there in my situation (failed install) who’d be most grateful. Thanks for your time, and keep up the good work.

]]> By: virtualpilot45 http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/10/30/mozilla-thunderbird-email-client-reviewed/#comment-61020 virtualpilot45 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:16:41 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=9858#comment-61020 I installed Thunderbird for somebody after trying WLM and Thunderbird 'stole' the mail off the server - so they couldn't access the mail from the internet on another computer! Much prefer WLM. I installed Thunderbird for somebody after trying WLM and Thunderbird ‘stole’ the mail off the server – so they couldn’t access the mail from the internet on another computer! Much prefer WLM.

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