Comments on: Mozilla Thunderbird sucks

By: Lynne Ox

Lynne Ox — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:43:22 +0000

Thunderbird used to be fantastic. I have the feeling it is suffering from the same malady as Gnome – sabotage by M$ plants. I really can’t think of a better reason for great products to suddenly become so crappy in the same way that M$ has always been crappy.
Evolution has become more enticing, although I don’t need all that it provides.

By: Sigmund Snøløs

Sigmund Snøløs — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:28:46 +0000

Yeah, Agreed it is bad – In the way they handle e-mail accounts. I just wanted my new one to work, and it would not sort of swtich new both pop and smtp servers, even thou I sat the new account as a standard, hoping to have all the new connections in order, but just the new smtp server would change from the old setup, So i needed to get rid of the old I thought, and deleted it in hope it would be able to use the new account entirely. – But then all the old mails got vanished as well…. surprise, I thought the mails would be intact afterwards, but noooo. And it was also freaking almost impossible to get the old stuff to work, I had to then start the automatically install, then abort it while it was working, and then change the numbers of the ports, then it would work, Not if I sat it up manually.. So troublesome to setup accounts in that e-mail client. But, it was swift and accurate to do setup the new account, It did what it was supposed to in that regard, only a bit of a nasty surprise it got to delete all of my old messages.

By: Joe Schmoe

Joe Schmoe — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:31:10 +0000

You’re absolutely right… thunderbird stinks to high heaven. But if you’re using Outlook and sending rich text emails… you are a fuckwit.

By: Al Allen

Al Allen — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:57:27 +0000

Stunned, shocked at the list of Thunderbird problems I ran into, including the program’s absolute refusal to let me conduct the simple act of changeing my email password. Complete list of negatives is too numerous to mention, but I have to admit that I set the program up on a co-worker’s computer here in this office two months ago she swears by it, claims it works perfectly and is superior to Outlook in every way. To which I shake my head and reply, “Adios, Thunderbird, it was definitelt NOT good to know you.” Vaya con dios.

By: Never Mind

Never Mind — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:15:15 +0000

Today is the day when I kick Thunderbird for good.

About two months ago, for some strange reason, the “sent” folder never displays the last couple of days’ worth of email.
(Something wrong with its infamous indexing, I am sure.)

Today, a very important email, with a work attachment (for which I had stayed up all night and well into the morning, so I could deliver it on time), never reached its destination.
I set the priority to “highest”, as I always do, and sent it on its way.

No errors, no nothing, happened to alert me to possible failure of delivery.
But a few minutes ago the people who had been expecting my email at 10 a.m. (I sent it two minutes before 10 a.m.) emailed me that they never received it.
And because I cannot acess the latest sent email, I cannot even prove that I did send it!

That’s it.
Farewell, Mozilla.

By: Mikee

Mikee — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:38:48 +0000

Lately it seems that all of Mozilla’s products work best if they’re not used at all. They make beautiful icons, and that’s about the extent of their greatness. Thunderbird sucks and so does Firefox.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:46:29 +0000

Yes, it sucks. Everything from how it shows progress to how it marks spam. I was hoping it would make all the Outlook pain go away, but no, it was worse. I just use webmail for everything now.

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.