-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 26.08.2011 08:17, schrieb Per Jessen:
George OLson wrote:
Hey to all,
I am just looking for opinions from people that have used these programs, and how you might compare them. I am using thunderbird right now, but I find it very difficult to configure the GUI fonts. At the same time, I really like the ability to keep messages from the same thread together in my inbox or other folders, and thunderbird is far superior to outlook's handling of this.
I am migrating over from MS Outlook, and would like to import all my old email, besides my calendar, tasks, and address book. I started using thunderbird only because I am moderately familiar with it.
Any advice, and info on common problems you may have encountered, would be most helpful. I use Thunderbird for private and business email. I don't recognise your issue wrt fonts - I don't think I've ever fiddled with fonts in Thunderbird. I've never used Outlook myself, but I have occasionally helped a customer migrate away. AFAIR, you're likely to only be able to import old email. Even for that, you'll need to lok for third-party utilities as the PST format, is not, to my knowledge, publicly available.
Calendar - I use Lightning, works very well for my needs.
Somebody mentioned TB crashing - well, it doesn't on my system.
me too. I love using Thunderbird, and my adventure with Evolution ends up in a comeback to Thunderbird. I like it because there so many add-ons for it and the handling is really intuitive and easy to handle. And yes, I like the filter-functions. Kontact? Well, I use it for my calendar but for e-mail... well I´m just to happy with Thunderbird and never change a running system .. ehm.. mailreader! ;-) AFAIK there isn´t any _good_ option for migration from MS Outlook on both Kontact and Evolution (correct me if I´m wrong!), and Thunderbird is the most Outlook-like e-mailreader I know (Apart from using Outlook/Windows Live Mail/Windows Mail in Wine...) So, I would suggest you to give the other mail readers a fair chance. Install them, test them, create your own opinion about it and post it here. That´s the way I would do it. And, quite frankly, it´s a good thing to do when it´s raining dogs and cats and you don´t know what to next. good luck! may the mail readers be with you! ;-) -kdl - -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOV9pkAAoJEIvl+D/SbuwJvw0H/3VSmrY4DNpF7Xbdc6NEEAGU fQzs2I5xfr0WgE4mwiuIIdWgjEYWbkary4C6U5erR/rw447JEKY+JRRrFf/X7FE9 eH/+kBtipYEW2xn3HUgWKKIa2uzMyf1vusN+OGy0SVWimQkeg+vX3PO5a9L4LAPF 0nkmtVqQoyJLs16w7TQPAMUUlJ1c/Gwkm5i4ARjC4tmpu6QPNa3wviy08aTiTpUB 2tjSyh5V00W7tXbefGw8KTftDCGrmNRvqOjeZXLzaenhPut9Kz3AwdHYJMieFmSP 854tqem7ASFzgozKDeU5ZOl7C5Tky1UKDTOM+Xm1Jn2mNh6e3diQ9SpnQolWvuI= =5Lo5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org