Thunderbird
Julian pointed out that my copy of Mozilla Thunderbird was out of date so I quickly upgraded it from version 1.06 to 1.5. I can now install and run the powerful extension that minimises Thunderbird, NVU and Firefox to my system tray to free up my task bar.
I had a good chat to Julian about the reasons why we decided to switch from Outlook to Thunderbird. I am quite happy with the interface, junk e-mail filters and extensions. It seems as if he is having some problems with the extension that reports crashes and faults to Mozilla but this was easy to shutdown. I was puzzled by the junk e-mail filter rules at first until I worked out that I had to work the training both ways, to identify junk e-mail and non-junk e-mail.
The idea of adding in bits of software called extensions to increase the functionality or themes is a sound policy. Whilst an upgrade might temporarily shut-down some of these until they are tested, preserving the stability of the core program first should be the primary consideration. Of course, the features of a popular extension can always be later considered for the core program.
In all, a good move!
I had a good chat to Julian about the reasons why we decided to switch from Outlook to Thunderbird. I am quite happy with the interface, junk e-mail filters and extensions. It seems as if he is having some problems with the extension that reports crashes and faults to Mozilla but this was easy to shutdown. I was puzzled by the junk e-mail filter rules at first until I worked out that I had to work the training both ways, to identify junk e-mail and non-junk e-mail.
The idea of adding in bits of software called extensions to increase the functionality or themes is a sound policy. Whilst an upgrade might temporarily shut-down some of these until they are tested, preserving the stability of the core program first should be the primary consideration. Of course, the features of a popular extension can always be later considered for the core program.
In all, a good move!