Re: Any experience using Mozilla Thunderbird for email?

[Guest guest]

I haven't used Mozilla, but I think a couple people on the list might be using it.You might also consider Google's e-mail.Especially since signing up gives you access to a whole host of other Google free features.

They seem to be the big kid on the block that will be around a while.

I was thinking of switching to G-mail, but couldn't quite figure out how to upload my old e-mails.

I believe there is a way to save old e-mails from outlook into Gmail, but I didn't have the energy to fuss with that right now.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

http://tinyurl.com/5zap48

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Web Accelerator Speed up the web Locke, MD-----Original Message-----From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of SchwartzSent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 7:56 AMTo: Subject: Any experience using Mozilla Thunderbird for email?I was introduced to this "free" option yesterday (as opposed to buying a copy of Outlook) for my new machine. I have used Outlook in the past, no problems, but am interested if anyone has tried Thunderbird, and if it offers anything more than Outlook. I am currently using the Onebox/Updox connection to receive mail from patients but feel like I would like better management of my Contacts, and also be able to synch to my Palm and my laptop Any input would be appreciated-- thanks, ------------------------------------

[Guest guest]

Having used (and still using) Thunderbird...very nice program with on

going development. Having said that, I must reiterate the previous

recommendation to use gmail. Although you could move all of your email

hosting to gmail, I simply have gmail check my other accounts for me -

everything unified.

- Jack

> I was introduced to this " free " option yesterday (as opposed to buying a

> copy of Outlook)

> for my new machine. I have used Outlook in the past, no problems, but am

> interested if

> anyone has tried Thunderbird, and if it offers anything more than Outlook. I

> am currently

> using the Onebox/Updox connection to receive mail from patients but feel

> like I would like

> better management of my Contacts, and also be able to synch to my Palm and

> my laptop

> Any input would be appreciated--

> thanks,

>

>

>

--

Jack Forbush, DO

Osteopathic Center for Family Medicine

603 Main Road North

Hampden, ME 04444

office:

fax:

www.ocfm.com

[Guest guest]

Having used (and still using) Thunderbird...very nice program with on

going development. Having said that, I must reiterate the previous

recommendation to use gmail. Although you could move all of your email

hosting to gmail, I simply have gmail check my other accounts for me -

everything unified.

- Jack

> I was introduced to this " free " option yesterday (as opposed to buying a

> copy of Outlook)

> for my new machine. I have used Outlook in the past, no problems, but am

> interested if

> anyone has tried Thunderbird, and if it offers anything more than Outlook. I

> am currently

> using the Onebox/Updox connection to receive mail from patients but feel

> like I would like

> better management of my Contacts, and also be able to synch to my Palm and

> my laptop

> Any input would be appreciated--

> thanks,

>

>

>

--

Jack Forbush, DO

Osteopathic Center for Family Medicine

603 Main Road North

Hampden, ME 04444

office:

fax:

www.ocfm.com

[Guest guest]

Thunderbird is pretty good, and my techie

husband prefers it over Outlook, but I am used to Outlook, and not interested

in changing at this point.

A. Eads, M.D.

Pinnacle Family Medicine, PLLC

phone fax

P.O.

Box 7275

Woodland

Park, CO 80863

www.PinnacleFamilyMedicine.com

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Schwartz

Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008

7:56 AM

To:

Subject:

Any experience using Mozilla Thunderbird for email?

I was introduced to this " free " option

yesterday (as opposed to buying a copy of Outlook)

for my new machine. I have used Outlook in the past, no problems, but am

interested if

anyone has tried Thunderbird, and if it offers anything more than Outlook. I am

currently

using the Onebox/Updox connection to receive mail from patients but feel like I

would like

better management of my Contacts, and also be able to synch to my Palm and my

laptop

Any input would be appreciated--

thanks,

[Guest guest]

How do you get gmail to check your other accounts. I use outlook and a locally hosted email for my primary email, a Yahoo account for " shopping related " stuff, and gmail for my listserv participation. Dividing things up like this has made it easier for me not to miss important things like emails from patients or electronic banking and billing stuff. Now I created another Yahoo account for selling stuff on Craig's List and ebay, and I would love to get gmail to check on that for me and send me a message if/when there is activity on that account. Would save me from having to log onto Yahoo all the time to check.

Annie

Having used (and still using) Thunderbird...very nice program with on

going development. Having said that, I must reiterate the previous

recommendation to use gmail. Although you could move all of your email

hosting to gmail, I simply have gmail check my other accounts for me -

everything unified.

- Jack

> I was introduced to this " free " option yesterday (as opposed to buying a

> copy of Outlook)

> for my new machine. I have used Outlook in the past, no problems, but am

> interested if

> anyone has tried Thunderbird, and if it offers anything more than Outlook. I

> am currently

> using the Onebox/Updox connection to receive mail from patients but feel

> like I would like

> better management of my Contacts, and also be able to synch to my Palm and

> my laptop

> Any input would be appreciated--

> thanks,

>

>

>

--

Jack Forbush, DO

Osteopathic Center for Family Medicine

603 Main Road North

Hampden, ME 04444

office:

fax:

www.ocfm.com

-- Annie SkaggsLexington, KY

[Guest guest]

Annie,

I didn't think that Yahoo offered a " free " POP access ability, but I

double-checked the site. In order to have POP access for your Yahoo

account, you have to upgrade to Yahoo plus. For other e-mail accounts,

such as those you receive from your ISP, you can simply add these in

your Gmail settings. I currently have, I believe, for e-mail accounts

that Gmail checks for me and simply set up a series of labels and

filters so that I would know which message came from which account and

what it's regarding. A better example would be, all mailing list e-mails

are tagged with a " mailing list " label. Labels are a bit different than

folders, which many of us have traditionally used in organizing our

e-mail, however they offer a bit more flexibility as you can assign

several labels to a single e-mail message. This is very similar, if not

identical to the " Smart mailbox " feature in Mac OS X. I had initially

thought about doing this very thing with Yahoo, however I did want to

pay for it, i.e. upgrading to the plus account.

here's a link to help you get started.

<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en & answer=21288>

- Jack

Skaggs wrote:

> How do you get gmail to check your other accounts. I use outlook and

> a locally hosted email for my primary email, a Yahoo account for

> " shopping related " stuff, and gmail for my listserv participation.

> Dividing things up like this has made it easier for me not to miss

> important things like emails from patients or electronic banking and

> billing stuff. Now I created another Yahoo account for selling stuff

> on Craig's List and ebay, and I would love to get gmail to check on

> that for me and send me a message if/when there is activity on that

> account. Would save me from having to log onto Yahoo all the time to

> check.

> Annie

>

> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Jack Forbush <web@...

> > wrote:

>

> Having used (and still using) Thunderbird...very nice program with on

> going development. Having said that, I must reiterate the previous

> recommendation to use gmail. Although you could move all of your email

> hosting to gmail, I simply have gmail check my other accounts for me -

> everything unified.

>

> - Jack

>

>

>

> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Schwartz

> <lisas@... <mailto:lisas%40frontiernet.net>> wrote:

> > I was introduced to this " free " option yesterday (as opposed to

> buying a

> > copy of Outlook)

> > for my new machine. I have used Outlook in the past, no

> problems, but am

> > interested if

> > anyone has tried Thunderbird, and if it offers anything more

> than Outlook. I

> > am currently

> > using the Onebox/Updox connection to receive mail from patients

> but feel

> > like I would like

> > better management of my Contacts, and also be able to synch to

> my Palm and

> > my laptop

> > Any input would be appreciated--

> > thanks,

> >

> >

> >

>

> --

> Jack Forbush, DO

> Osteopathic Center for Family Medicine

> 603 Main Road North

> Hampden, ME 04444

> office:

> fax:

> www.ocfm.com <http://www.ocfm.com>

>

>

>

>

> --

> Annie Skaggs

> Lexington, KY

>

--

Jack Forbush, DO

Osteopathic Center for Family Medicine

603 Main Road North

Hampden, ME 04444

office:

fax:

http://www.ocfm.com

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