I’ve swapped Thunderbird… for Outlook
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It broke my heart, but today after many years of loyal service, I had to retire Mozilla Thunderbird. I have, after many weeks of painstaking deliberation decided that my email accounts had just out grown the little bird and I had no alternative but to migrate back to Outlook.
Now, I am a big fan of open source and not all that keen on Microsoft. I am a devout Firefox user and can would be totally lost without it. The problem with Thunderbird is the fact that it thinks small and can’t handle large amounts of data. I have a dozen email accounts that are checked as soon as the program opens, including a couple of webmail accounts.
Being constantly asked for my account passwords was something that I could live with although I didn’t understand why the bird just did not remember them. Getting ‘Negative Vibes‘ error messages was annoying, but forgivable. Server timeouts were common, but I could handle it. However, the ‘Folder is being processed‘ webmail error was just the final nail in the blue budgies coffin. My PC would just dive into a packet switching, data exchange frenzy that would only stop when the TBird was closed. I thought for a long time ‘with then next update of the webmail extension, this will be fixed…’. But alas, after many updates, it never happened.
So I have bitten the bullet. I spent the whole of yesterday moving all of my accounts back to Outlook, via Outlook Express of course, using a program called Imap Size, which can convert your email files into palatable formats. The thing is, despite its detractors and lack of extensibility, Outlook can handle anything you throw at it. It is a Beast of an app, and easily processes off my paltry handful of accounts without complaint
Thundy, I am sorry. One day, when you grow up, maybe we can work together again. Until then.
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