The present T-Bird Calendar is just not “cut out for it”, right now. I will take a look at T-Bird it again when the new integrated Calendar for T-Bird, “Lightning”, is released mid-2005 per developers. I liked the fact that T-Bird allows “follow-up”, customization, where Outlook only provides colored flags. I do miss the ability in T-Bird to color and name emails that I need to follow-up on. The spell check via WORD in Outlook is much more reliable and I agree that the “e-mail reminder option” is great in Outlook. pst folder, unlike T-Birds notes extension, who’s data needs to be “back-up” separately (I have lost notes). Outlook’s note feature is also good since the notes data file is included in the Outlook. The integrated Calendar in Outlook is great. I like many feature in T-Bird and prefer to use the “underdog”, but Outlook 2003 has features that I really need. I too have tried T-Bird and I have gone back to Outlook 2003. They’d probably make more money if they sold it for a reasonable price, because casual “pirates” might not make unauthorized copies nearly as much. It’s darn good software, and the industry standard and all that, but it’s really hard to choke on the price tag with OpenOffice available. Now I have to manually put a reminder into CalendarScope and paste the body of the email into it…a minor pain.īut, in spite of my frustrations with ThunderBird, I just can’t justify MS charging what they charge for Office. Like you, I also *loved* the old “flag for followup” in Outlook as well. I understand the Mozilla team is going to add Calendaring at some point. CalendarScope / ThunderBird don’t integrate. You are right that the lack of integration stinks, tho. A friend of mine abandoned Thunderbird because of the poor Spam filtering alone.įor Calendaring, I use CalendarScope, a really nice little proggie that is almost identical to the Outlook calendar. I really wish they’d tweak it at Mozilla. I had much more luck with an old version of SpamBayes back when I was using an old version of Outlook than the latest and greatest TB. Takes it way too long to train for my taste and still lets the more slippery SPAM get through. It works OK but not nearly as well as something like a SpamBayes plugin for Outlook. My biggest minus for Thunderbird is actually one of your plusses….the spam filter. I’ll be keeping Thunderbird for the time being (my main complaint with Office anything is that it’s just too darned expensive). Good comparison all-around, agree with all of the points except one.