Comments on: Using Thunderbird as an Outlook Replacement

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Wed, 18 May 2011 14:08:17 +0000

[...] client and moved to using Gmail directly in the browser. It was a long time coming. Thunderbird served us well for years, long before we were on Google Apps, but the time had finally come to ditch it and move to the [...]

By: Using the Open Source Alternatives at Adam McFarland

Using the Open Source Alternatives at Adam McFarland — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:17:33 +0000

[...] little over a month ago I posted about using Mozilla Thunderbird as an Outlook replacement, and how our company is planning on transitioning in to using more open source software. As I [...]

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:21:12 +0000

Thanks for commenting Peter. The great thing about Thunderbird is the active development community (much like Firefox) that builds all sorts of extensions that pick up where the app leaves off. Hopefully you’ll be able to find everything you need.

Good luck!

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:50:35 +0000

I’m looking for open source software, including an Outlook replacement, mainly to avoid having to purchase lots of licenses for a non-profit I’m working with. They have many donated computers with different software versions and usually no licenses because the original owners have lost them. I think Thunderbird with the right plugins will work for them.

It would be good to see plugins like those available for Outlook also available for Thunderbird from social networks such as LinkedIn, Xing etc.

Outlook 2003 does have the ability to create HTML signatures. They tend to mess up if they have graphics included and someone replies to your message using plain text