[CLUE-Tech] Migrating from Outlook Express to Thunderbird

[Greg Knaddison]

Any reason you are stuck on Thunderbird?  It is a nice email client in
many ways, but it has drawbacks.  How about Evolution?  I don't know
if Evolution can do what you need, but I'm guessing it can.  Maybe the
Opera O2 client is what you need, then you'd get a nice browser as
well as mail.

In case you're stuck with Windows...
http://email.about.com/od/windowsemailclients/

Greg

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:49:55 -0600, Dan Harris <dan at drivefaster.net> wrote:
> I have a client that I'm trying to convince to finally ditch OE in favor
> of T-bird.  But, I keep running into little snags that are deal breakers
> for them.
> 
> Here's the latest scenario:
> 
> This is a contracting firm and they have a nice organized hierarchy of
> dirs on a file server for each project that is shared amongst all the
> project managers.  Currently, using OE, they drag all messages related
> to that project into a file system folder.  Then, if that email needs to
> be accessed later, they can double-click the .eml file and it will open
> in OE and allow them to reply, etc.  The important part is that
> apparently the attachment to the email gets saved with the file, so long
> after they've deleted the email in OE, they can still double click the
> archive and view the attachments.
> 
> In Thunderbird, I've found two obstacles:
> 
> #1  The only way to save an email message to the file system is to click
> File/Save. They are willing to live with that.  But, once the email is
> saved the attachments don't get automatically saved with the message.
> So if you click File/Open Saved Message, there will be no attachment to
> the message.  Having to save all the attachments manually adds more
> steps to the procedure that they are not willing to tolerate.
> 
> #2 Once a file is saved to a local folder, double-clicking on the
> message will open it with OE.  I was able to go into Tools/File Options
> and change the File Type association to thunderbird.exe, thinking that
> double-clicking on the message would open it in T-bird.  But alas, it
> does not.  It does nothing when double-clicking on the .eml file.
> 
> I'm trying to slowly pry them out of MS's death grip but these
> roadblocks are frustrating.  Has anyone had success making the above work?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Dan
> 
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