[MACEP] Thunderbird

[Jamie McParland]

I have been setting people up to use tbird with our Novell system. As you
may or may not know the GroupWise client for OSX is HORRABLE!

I just set up tbird as a basic imap client and have it query our e-directory
server for auto fill addresses.

Great client. I'm really impressed.

Jamie McParland
Newberg Public Schools.


> From: Mark Petersen <map at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A discussion list for educators interested in integrating
> technology into teaching." <macep at macep.net>
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:13:45 -0800
> To: Metro Area Computer-Educator Professionals <macep at macep.net>
> Subject: [MACEP] Thunderbird
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Mozilla has released Thunderbird, an e-mail client with versions that
> run on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/
> 
> It would appear that the web site senses what type of computer you're
> browsing from and serves up the correct version for you.
> 
> It's a very clean interface with several choices of how the window will
> divided up between a list of incoming messages, text included in
> individual messages and mailboxes.  It provides a "wizard" for setting
> up originally and will ask if you want "it" to import address
> information from your "old" e-mail program.
> 
> Mildly irritating is the fact that one has to make settings in two
> different places - Preferences (in the Thunderbird menu) and in Account
> Settings (in the Tools menu.)  As I can figure it, the Preferences are
> for what happens on the screen in your machine and the Account Settings
> are what happens in the relationship between the machine and the
> server.  Why not have that all accessible in one place?  Grrr...
> Anyway, I was able to set it up so that e-mail messages were not
> stripped off the server so those messages could be managed by my
> regular e-mail client for the time being.
> 
> Otherwise, it worked well and was very easy to understand.
> 
> I experimented with having T-bird import my addresses from Eudora.  It
> picked up the groups that I had along with the included addresses, but
> the individual addresses were missed.  The work-around that I might try
> for that would be to go into Eudora and take all my individual
> addresses and make them into one very large group.  Then the import
> engine will probably get them all.  I didn't see how the importer would
> get the e-mail addresses from Mac's Mail program.  That will take
> further study.  Mail on the Mac works so well with the separate Address
> Book, that it's hard for me to see a reason to switch over to T-bird.
> 
> Well, it's time for lunch.  Bon appetite!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> "The road to a friend's house is never long."
> -Danish proverb
> 
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