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Mass Migration/Bughunt For Thunderbird Tuesday

Posted by timothy on from the good-seats-are-still-available dept.

maggeth writes "mozillaZine is spreading the word of a plan to have a mass migration of users from other email clients on this coming Tuesday in order to find any remaining bugs in the migration process. 'Bring your Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook Express, and Communicator e-mail clients with you and join us on IRC for a day of testing the Thunderbird migration features. The goal is to get as many testing migrations performed on as many clients and as many operating systems as possible and to discuss and record all the problems in Bugzilla.' Read the full article for more details and for the IRC location."

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  1. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been hunting for a win32 email client that doesn't suck a bag of cocks. Anyone got any suggestions? I'd appreciate it a lot.

    There you go.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. Re:Great! by gnu-generation-one · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For anyone seriously needing to migrate from a webmail provider, there are various Perl tools such as yahoo mail downloader.

    If your favourite web-based data source doesn't already have a tool to access it using Perl, there are also web-scraper modules (and LWP) which make it easy to build your own. Remember to put it on CPAN if you create something new.

  3. Re:It'll fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Can someone tell me why this 3 year old bug will STILL keep anyone from migrating from Eudora???

    As in, all HTML email is broken on the import, just because some jackass(es) think this "isn't their problem." If it's not Thunderbirds' problem, whose problem is it? You expect a normal user to download a PHP or Perl script to fix the broken import process? Yeah, right. People with this attitude (it's not that rare) in open source projects should be told thanks for their contributions, but your efforts are no longer needed, and shown the door.

  4. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well if you already have Office 2k3 then Outlook is the best win32 client. None of the old virus problems, adequate spam-filtering, nice new design, and zero learning for most people since it is what most of us use at work.

    Ok - now all the anti-Microsoft people who have never used Outlook 2k3 can bash me.

  5. What's the fallacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In both situations, people are getting end-users to do the testing for them. Only it's not very likely for you to die a fiery death if Thunderbird crashes...unless it's a Ford Thunderbird :)

  6. Necessity by Cokelee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In order for Thunderbird to be something it is going to have to do something very well that no other mail client does.

    I suggest full, complete, and amazing integration with GPG/PGP. In such a way that *every* user can make use of it. I'm talking "as a part of the intro wizard"-easy.

  7. Missing feature: who did I reply to and when? by SilentTristero · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't migrate my users from Outlook to Tbird because (among other things) Outlook can tell you who you replied or forwarded the email to and when; Tbird/IMAP can only say "replied". Duh yeah, good audit trail.

    Not quite ready for prime time business use yet.

    And of course you import the mail and leave behind the calendar (linked to the mail), the notes (linked to the mail), the diary (linked to the mail)... hmm, I don't think they'll go for it.

    I use it myself & love it, don't get me wrong. But for business use, it's not quite there yet.

    -- ST