| Thunderbird -- not enterprise-worthy ... yet |
Jan. 11, 2005
 In an op-ed column at eWEEK, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols suggests that the Mozilla email client has all of the stuff an experienced user needs and is more secure than Outlook, but it doesn't have the right stuff for most enterprises. Actually, Vaughan-Nichols loves Thunderbird . . .
I love Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundation's standalone email client.
I mean I really, really like it a lot. I use it on my Windows XP machines; I use it on my Linux systems. I put it on my daughter's Mac, and I've replaced my wife's copy of Outlook Express on her Windows 2000 box.
They love it. I love it. But the love is not unconditional.
While I think Thunderbird is a great replacement for Outlook Express, Eudora or my own personal favorite for many years, Pegasus Mail, it just isn't quite ready for corporate, prime-time email.
For starters, it still has some bugs in it.
Take, for example, the error message, "This folder is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages." Sometimes, this is a trivial error message, other times you'll need to kill Thunderbird because that email program is never coming back to life. |
Read the complete column at eWEEK.com:
Thunderbird: Not Quite Ready for Business
Be sure to also read PC Magazine's review of Thunderbird 1.0, here.
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