Mozilla Mail != Thunderbird

Mozilla Mail != Thunderbird

It's unclear if you actually reviewed Mozilla Mail 1.6 or Thunderbird, but based on the entries on the table, you may have just done Thunderbird, as a number of the features you list as missing/limited are incorrect for Mozilla Mail 1.6 (on Windows in my case, but I'm pretty sure this all applied to the Linux and other versions as well):

• I can have any sound I want associated with new mail notifications. The default is NOT just a beep, but a nice series of tones.
• It's unclear what you meant by Follow-Up's but Mozilla has Reply-To and it properly handles message ID's and thread IDs so things get threaded properly.
• I don't know precisely what you mean by "full index search", or "Search Folders", but Mozilla 1.6 Mail can do two different kinds of searches:
  • a quick search that allows you to just search the subject and other header fields in the currently displayed folder (View->Show/Hide->Search Bar)
  • an extensive search dialog that lets you do full searches over a wide range of fields, folders, sub-folders and so on (Tools->Search Messages)
• It's unclear what you mean by "Handle mailing list" - do you mean that it can receive a digest and then split out the individual messages? If you mean something other than that, it's unclear. AFAIK, Mozilla Mail can't do this, but there may be a plug-in that does.
If it's the case that you actually reviewed Thunderbird instead of Mozilla, you might want to make that clear and possibly do a review of the current Mozilla Mail 1.6. Thunderbird is a completely different thing than the current Mozilla Mail, and while Thunderbird may eventually become the default Mail application in the Mozilla suite, it's not there yet (at least last time I tested it it wasn't).

As a final note: the next generation "feature" you mention, virtual folders, is something that the Emacs/XEmacs VM mail reader has been doing for at least 8-10 years now. The whole thing is based on the concept of virtual folders. For people who live in Emacs, it's a really good way to do mail.

Pete

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Mozilla Mail != Thunderbird

Posted Feb 27, 2004 12:11 UTC (Fri) by mtk (subscriber, #804) [Link]

in fact, when used with an IMAP server that supports
body searches, the mozilla email client can even
recursively search the bodies of all messages in
your "folder" tree. on a lightly loaded dual xeon
box with 2G of RAM, you can learn the true meaning
of email bliss :-).