http://www.epiki.com/yahoo-zimbra-desktop-an-advance-alternative-for-outlook-and-thunderbird

I, like many here, use Thunderbird and am both pleased by
what I can do and annoyed by what I can’t. Duplicate emails,
spam, and (Junk) Filters provide mixed results. Of course the
spammers are working overtime to stay one step ahead of the
technology so I can’t blame thunderbird entirely.

For duplicates I use “Remove Duplicates Alternate” which
seems to have the greatest degree of customization.

For Outlook Bulk Mail – we have similar problems, I stumbled upon,
and recommend “Easy Mail Merge”. It’s not free, but, it’s an
affordable $ 40. It’s simple, user friendly, it will pull from almost any source, which takes you away from the address book limitations
of Outlook. The one thing I can think of that it doesn’t do
is tracking. But there may be other alternatives for that as well.

I haven’t found anything – yet, for bulk email from Thunderbird.

Til then, “Easy Mail Merge” might be a workable alternative.

Good luck.

Oh, and I couldn’t agree more with your point! I just hope Thunderbird continues to improve and be supported by Mozilla.

Dude. Calendar. Eff t-bird. Those guys can’t be bothered to put that in there.

Ciaran, check out http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ . Lightning is a Calendar extension for Thunderbird. So far, I’ve not had a problem with Lightning.

Plus, Thunderbird is customizable with extensions.. Thats why I switched over. I can put what I want on it. I don’t have to have most of Bill’s crew of dim-wits telling me what is in the program.. [i graduated school with some people that now work at Microsoft. so, they keep me informed what they really recommend, rather than what microsoft recommends.]

But most people need to remember that all-in-all, Thunderbird was designed as an Outlook Express replacement, not Outlook [97/XP/2003/2007], so comparisons don’t balance too well.

I work for a small non-profit, and we need to send out 800 emails about twice a month. Outlook is being unfriendly with this, so I’m wondering if TBird would be good for it?

Because of our ip, I need a way to limit to 20 per minute. Any recommendations on add-ons for this?

Sure! Sometime I love digging old stories and end up in missing the current one!

If they can make the software more attractive to corporations, I’m sure this will be one of the things they do first.

P.S. Feel free to dig up old posts!

I’m pretty satisfied with Thunderbird. But I was not able to make the switch over since the office network had only support for exchange server. Thunderbird didn’t have the capability to connect with exchange server. Just wondering if there is any 3rd party compatibility package available for Thunderbird to enable it connect to exchange server. Just curious!