I finally got fed up with Thunderbird. The way it displays quoted text drives me batshit crazy. Since I’ve got Office 2007 installed on Cracktop, and since I have to use Outlook for work, I figured I may as well use it at home. As much as it hurts to say it, it’s a huge improvement over Thunderbird. For one thing, you can control how incoming messages are displayed, even to the extent that it’ll strip out HTML. This is good.
Plus, the integrated calendar is helpful. And the good lord knows, after spending three hours in a ridiculous workshop learning the dark secrets of the Outlook calendar, I should probably put that evil knowledge to use.
[Addendum: I found a utility to convert Thunderbird mailboxes to Outlook-readable files. It involved converting, then dumping into Outlook Express, then importing into Outlook, but it worked flawlessly. The whole process took about 15 minutes, and that includes searching for the converter, downloading and installing it, and time spent hunting around on my hard drive for the stupid TB files.]
red paper boat 