JOJOMAN Few things worth mentioning about this software: 1. This is a very nice email client, featrue is very complete. Interface (even though it is not coca), workes very well for me. 2. Extension system worked out quite well, I've installed half a dozen extension already, and features such as auto image zoom, header display hotkey, Maximize message pane, remove duplicate worked out very nicely. 3. Editor for writting email is quite good, table, outline numbering etc works well. 5. I have roughly 1.2GB of mails in total, 1500+ messages and the speed is adequate, faster then Apple Mail. 6. Search within pre-defined is very, very fast. 1. I can create email template, but cannot effectively use it with reply, forward, redirect functions. In TB, you cannot specify which template to use for certain action, so I don't use template at all. Default template is what I have to live with now. And it cannot be edited from the TB software directly. 2. Address Book is the worst I've seen, feature wise is actually very complete, but TB address book is totally isolated from the rest of the Mac world. ldif file for transfer is not effective with Chinese characters. Previous post spoke enough about this shortcomings. 3. Message filter cannot use script 4. Help is offered thru web, forum etc. But the forum is so tangle up with all the other Mozilla projects, very difficult to navigate inside to find what you need. 5. Search within message body is very slow, I cannot compare with Mail but both are slow. Try to search using pre-defined fields such as TO, FROM, etc. whenever possible. 6. There isn't a proper vcalender support, Mail does this nicely and I can get the vcalender file created on Outlook PC direcly into ical. TB shows the file in plain text, I need to copy it to another word processor, save it as UTF-8 plain text, under the file extension .ics then double click it to get it into iCal. (typing the schedule directly in iCal is faster) 7. Calender extension in TB is not updated so I cannot use it with TB 1.5rc2. Mozilla SunBird doesn't has the same problem as iCal, so no help there. 8. iCal schedule cannot be sent directly using TB, as matter of fact, iCal can only send using Apple Mail. Not the problem of TB but this shoudl be the problem of Apple iCal. The default mail program is simply ignored by iCal. Having said all that, I've switched from Mail to TB week ago. The reason is that I got the disappearing message problem back (yes, it happened before) and I am starting to get duplicates messages. This time, I cannot fix the problem with Mail using the old method and I don't want to spend my time again to find out how to solve this. If you are looking for Apple Mail alternative, give this a try, address book is a big killer here but fortunately, TB remembers the address you type, do an initial import of your current address book, and after a week of using it, I can live with it. (Version 1.5rc2) |