[H-GEN] Thunderbird as a replacement for Outlook

[Anthony Irwin]

Greg Black wrote:

> Since I've never used Outlook, I'm interested to hear from
> people with relevant experience if Thunderbird is likely to make
> her happy.  If Thunderbird is lacking particular features that
> Outlook provides, I'd be interested to know what they are (in
> case they're things that she doesn't use).
> 

Hi,

Thunderbird is a pretty good gui email client and also does usenet 
newsgroups. It has threaded email support which is good for mailing 
lists and usenet groups.

You can turn on some basic junk mail filtering that is supposed to 
learn what spam is when you mark things as junk and you can have 
varying levels of success with it.

You have message filters so can move messages into different folders 
or do other actions with them as well. You can also have customized 
filters that will let you filter on anything in the message source so 
you have more flexibility then other gui message filters that I have seen.

It has pretty much everything email related but if you want extras 
like a calendar then it isn't in there. Although mozilla also have a 
calendar project but I have never tried their calendar program.

Kind Regards,
Anthony Irwin