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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Hey Tanner,
Can you search Thunderbird emails from spotlight?

I'm on Entourage but I'm not too happy with it.  I was thinking of switching
to Thunderbird.


On 5/31/06 3:42 PM, "Tanner Lovelace" <clubjuggler AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/31/06, Michael Tucker <michaeltucker AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> Which is the best email/address/calendaring combination to use on the Mac?
>> The default Mail and Address, iCal apps? Thunderbird? Any advice?  FYI- I
>> currently use outlook, and its email, address book, and calendaring
>> features. I was just going to switch everything over to the Mac's default
>> apps, but thought maybe you guys had other ideas/options that you might
>> recommend.
> 
> The default Address and iCal apps are definitely the way to go.  iSync works
> with them and will let you sync all your data to whatever other things you
> have (I currently sync to my Palm, iPod, and RAZR).  I wish it would also
> sync to Google calendar, but I'm sure someone will come up with that sooner
> or later.
> 
> As far as Mail is concerned, lots of people use Mail.app.  It works well, 
> from
> what I hear, and integrates with the built in address book.  I
> personally, however,
> use Thunderbird because I can't stand Mail.app's lack of good keyboard
> shortcuts.
> Thunderbird doesn't yet, however, integrate with the built in address book.
> There's a patch going around that will let Thunderbird read from it, but 
> IMHO
> it's just a halfway measure and T-Bird really needs full address book
> integration.
> 
> I also hear Mail.app also has presence notification (i.e. if a contact
> is online in
> iChat, you can see that in Mail.app when you're reading/composing a message
> from/to them).  Don't know if that's important to you or not, but just 
> thought
> I'd throw it out there.  Doesn't work with Adium in any case, afaik.  
> (Which,
> btw, is an EXCELLENT multi-protocol IM client and you really should consider
> it over iChat.)
> 
> Anyway, please post your experiences with the MacBook in a few weeks.
> I'd love to hear them as I hope to get one myself soon.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>