Lightning is on par with Outlooks great Calendar. Calendar integration is a free add-on.You can separate your searches a lot easier so if you have a regular client where you’ve sent 300 emails back and forth over the previous 6 months it is quicker finding it in Thunderbird. The Search Function is far superior to Outlook.The program is exceptionally responsive and seems to use less system resources (perfect if you’re a cash strapped artist using an old PC or a Netbook).Thunderbird Email Review: Thunderbird’s awesome features: It’s a free program that really does everything a start-up, artist or small business might need. It’s a great product but there is another Open Source program from the Mozilla organisation called Thunderbird. There’s something that is reassuring about having access to all your emails on your personal computers without an internet connection.įor the most part if you had a PC, you ran Microsoft Office, but at around $200 Australian it isn’t cheap and really is not necessarily the ultimate email client anymore. The trouble is, Thunderbird doesn’t learn well, and the false-positives keep flooding in, as does the spam itself.While much of the world is transfixed by the Cloud, life as a desktop based email is still hugely popular with much of the community (including myself). Messages are flagged with a symbol denoting them as spam. More seriously, the junk filtering is very poor indeed. There are still no calendaring or task functions, and the contacts section is a stripped-down shell of the Outlook equivalent. Remote image blocking works well, plus there’s an improvement to message notifications, which adds sender detail and text to the preview.īut that’s where the similarity ends. Talking of which, you can save searches to a folder containing a view of the messages rather than the messages themselves. Similarly, the find-as-you-type feature from Firefox has arrived and adds the same type of instant discovery as Outlook 2007. Coupled with filtering rules that can automatically categorise email upon delivery, it brings some much-needed order to Thunderbird. Tags are coloured, and once applied to a message, it too is coloured in the mail folder for easy identification.
The new message-tagging feature replicates the categories function of Outlook, bringing the ability to flag individual messages as being work-related, personal or anything you decide to create a tag for. That’s not to say that Thunderbird hasn’t made progress in this release, though.
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