Why is Thunderbird 'uncool'??

[andrew.46]

Hi,

I have been trying a few Usenet readers with varying success and eventually tried Thunderbird. I was a little amazed that it seems a very tidy and modern news reader as well as a decent mail client.

Yet Thunderbird-bashing seems a normal linux sport. Can I ask why there seems to be a prejudice against Thunderbird, why it is officially 'uncool'?

I ask this question partly in genuine interest and partly to stir things up a little

Andrew

[DigitalDuality]

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[andrew.46]

Hi,

I guess to expand on my initial point a little:

I suspect that Thunderbird is actually a great product but is substantially neglected because it carries with it the perceived taint of Windows as well as the label of a noob-email client.

In any survey of 'what mail / news client do you use' there seems to rapidly develop a competition to discuss the most obscure / difficult to use client rather than a discussion of robust and effective software. This competition serves to enhance the 'coolness' of the participants rather than to actually discuss mail / news clients.

Again I am stirring a little but with some genuine issues at heart

Andrew

[Mateo]

i haven't used it in a long time, but when I did I thought its rss reader was horrible. that's all I remember, really.

[billdotson]

I like it. I have a plugin that puts it down in the system tray when I minimize.

That plugin = awesome

[Nikron]

Sylpheed Claws > *

I don't like thunderbird because it loads rather slowly on my computer. Claws loads pretty much instantly.

[karellen]

who says it's uncool? I simply use evolution because it has more features that I need, but thunderbird is fine too for mails

[picpak]

Originally Posted by Nikron Sylpheed Claws > * I don't like thunderbird because it loads rather slowly on my computer. Claws loads pretty much instantly.

Sylpheed has pretty poor HTML mail support. Thunderbird has it by default, and you can enable it in Opera with the click of a button.

For newsgroups, I use Pan beta. It works great.

[FuturePilot]

I've never heard anyone bash Thunderbird. I use it all the time. It's better than Evolution. Evolution seems to be the one everyone bashes. I like Thunderbird.

[DarkDancer]

I use Thunderbird. I tried out Evolution and didn't like it, I can't remember why, somthing about the way it handled addressing e-mails I think....