macfidelity

Wer wie ich schon lange Thunderbird unter Mac OS X als Default-Mail-Client verwendet wird sich sicher gefragt haben: lebt das Projekt noch ?

Gerade im Vergleich zum großen Bruder Firefox wirkt das Projekt immer leicht Stiefmüttlicher behandelt.

Thunderbird 2 Ist-Stand:

Im Kern bin ich mit Thunderbird absolut zufrieden, da dieser zumindest inkl. dem Lightning Plugin eigentlich fast alles mit sich bringt was man sich so in einem Mail-Client wünscht.

• Verwaltung mehrere Mail-Accounts
• User-Aliase (Identitäten)
• Kalender Funktion
• Addressbuch

Was als Mac-User immer etwas sauer aufstößt ist die fehlende Kompatibilität mit dem Mac OS X Adressbuch. Ich habe diesen Aspekt wie wohl viele andere auch schon vor geraumer Zeit auf der Mailingliste angesprochen und damals wurde wohl schon daran gearbeitet, zumindest wenn man die spärlichen Tickets zu diesem Thema verfolgte.

Da mich heute ein Bekannter auf Thunderbird angesprochen hatte, war es mal an der Zeit diese Baustelle wieder aufzureißen und sich den aktuellen Ist-Stand im Bezug auf die entwicklung von Thunderbird 3 vorzunehmen.

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Found an interessting article in the dovecot wiki about using Thunderbird for debugging. The hint covers all operating systems basicly.

Quote:

Thunderbird has the ability to log its client actions based on protocol; this can be useful when you’re experiencing a problem with Dovecot and want to trap the commands that the client is sending.

We used that already at work and it was really helpful.

Links:

• Debugging using Thunderbird’s logging
• Thunderbird homepage

Maybe i am not the usual Mac-User….i guess i am really not. With my switch from 10.4 to 10.5   i tried Mail.app once again.

Impressions after some weeks:

• Strange folder visualization (contra Mail.app)
• Editing my sub-folders-structur was a mess with Mail.app (contra Mail.app)
• No real calendar solution inside the Mail-Client (contra Mail.app)

So finally back to Thunderbird as it offers:

• hundreds of plugins & extensions
• works on all platforms

with the switch from 10.4 to 10.5 i have changed my mail-client from thunderbird back to mail.app

basicly as i wasn’t 100% happy with thunderbird and on the other hand to give mail.app another chance.

Weeks later….not really happy with mail.app

Lets see what Correo brings….

Introducing Correo, a new open-source mail client for Mac OS X. Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application.

There are many planned features for the mail client, including plugin capability (to allow development of extensions such as PDA synchronization), tabbed window interface, address book support, keychain access, and various other to-be-determined features.

I am a Thunderbird user, maybe cause i am used to it from Linux (Debian) and several Microsoft Windows installations at work. Another reason “could be” that Mail.app is really not that good if you compare the features list.

At least from my point of view…anyways

I was always wondering if it would be possible to get Thunderbird working with Apples Addressbook. Basicly it is, but till now its only done by several individuals as work-around.

I have found several pages discussiong this issue:

• Vafer.org
• /dev/null

If you want to push that issue forward you should really create yourself a Bugzilla-Account here and vote for the following bug-entry

Bugzilla Entry:

Bug 203927 ï ¿ ½ Add ability to read from Mac OS X system Address Book

Would be really great to get this implementation working…so lets hope for Thunderbird 2.0 or whatever

Best regards

fidel