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  • From: Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Mac software recommendations?
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:14:45 -0400

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
>






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