Comments on: Mozilla Thunderbird sucks

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:09:37 +0000

I managed to get it to import my mail from outlook but it corrupted EVERY attachment. Now I have lost those. It is worthless.

By: i/o

i/o — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:48:32 +0000

Try to switch servers with imap. you give your account a new server address, connect and – boom! all your emails are gone, gone gone. there is no proper way to transfer your locally stored imap emails to the new server. yes, without a warning, you lose everything.
The whole messy system of profile folder deep in the guts of the system, and local folders and blablabla is such an utter nonsensical botheration. You can import Mail from Outlook, Eudora… but can you import mails from Thunderbird? No!
Why not, gdamnit, at install time, ask the user where to store the emails and profiles nad all, just in one nicely trackable folder of your choice? Then you would know: I make a backup of this folder and everything is safe.
I want to be able to export and import entire accounts, incl, setting and mails and all. That’s clear and safe.
Thunderbird is NOT a safe email client. Too much risk of losing everything. I have used it for many years, so I know what I am saying. Developers don’t get this. My patience is at an end. – I am with you, guys: Thunderbird sucks – time, nerve and emails.

By: Nell

Nell — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:26:32 +0000

Yes Tbirs is sucks. It ate some of my emails. It puts sent mail sometimes in sent and other times bugs me ‘could not put in sent’ and then (sometimes only) it is put in sent ANYWAYS. The folders with the many options (I like it – BUT) they are rather confusing! I never know where is what. And I keep finding emails I have double-deleted weeks ago! I am sorry to say that I may have to switch back to Outlook Express.

By: Nell

Nell — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:04:42 +0000

Tbird sorry to say is not to manage (so far). It eats the emails up sometimes and asks when sending – constantly if it is ok that it could not be put in sent folder. Later I sometimes see it has put it there anyways. Sometimes not.

Yes sucks.

By: JoeJoe

JoeJoe — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:10:21 +0000

I agree it sucks! I haven’t been able to get it working properly for months and the reason for that is how illogical it is. Some programmers like to imprint their ego on their work and you will especially notice this if you try to change ANYTHING in Thunderbird. Repeat after me, programmer:
“Simplicity is grace! Intuitive is good!”

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:37:15 +0000

It sucks, get the Bat and rediscover email again!

By: d4non

d4non — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:37 +0000

I don’t really like Outlook, but it is thousand times better than shitty Thunderbird. Mozilla is shit, and firefox is worthless compared to Opera as well. Opera and Evolution (Linux) are both much better mail clients.
My father has thunderbird and is fed up with bullshit unviewable attachments which can’t be send foward separately unitl saving all of them on hdd. FUCK THUNDERBIRD!

By: Brian from Purposive

Brian from Purposive — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:20:52 +0000

I’ve been using Thunderbird, MS Outlook, and several other mail systems concurrently (for different reasons) for years. The bottom line is that Outlook has by far outperformed the others. Thunderbird doesn’t even send replies to a large number of emails. It just gives you an error message which is very frustrating.

By: Melisa

Melisa — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:36:02 +0000

I used thunderbird for a week and changed back to outlook express today because I have received my e-mails with delays. Sometimes I have seen a 2-day old e-mail appearing on my mail box. Now I wonder if I lost any e-mails from my clients or friends.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:09:10 +0000

Agreed, agreed. I had heard TBird was the best thing ever, but it lost a LOT of my mail due to corrupted files. I can’t believe I’m doing this, but it looks like I’m going to enter the Belly of the Beast and start using MS Outlook.

Oh — and another complaint: Thunderbird won’t export mail to Outlook, or pretty much anything else. Luckily, good people have built workarounds (and you DON’T need to pay for them, like some other options require):

http://blog.nektra.com/main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-folders-from-thunderbird-to-outlook-outlook-express/