Comments on: Goodbye Thunderbird, Hello GMail

By: RohitK

RohitK — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:16:33 +0000

In my point of view thunder bird is better than outlook but Gmail is the best in online. I am giving some extra features of Gmail Gmail has extra feautres like offline chat and mobile applications,rply by chat etc.So it is the best.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:45:53 +0000

I have tried Thunderbird as well. I just never liked it, but I prefer desktop clients. I found that KMail inside of Kontact works wonderfully for me. You should give that a try sometime too.

By: Guy Rosen

Guy Rosen — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:42:11 +0000

Good luck and welcome to the club I went full circle with Outlook and Thunderbird and came all the way back to Gmail when GAFYD came along. With the add-ons I’m using and system I’ve gotten into I just can’t imagine living without it.

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:32:35 +0000

JonJon,

Let’s just say I have a love-hate relationship with Google.

The “problem” with Google is their services are so good, which is a good and bad thing if you’re looking for a diversity of suppliers. Google sets a high benchmark, which can only be a good thing if you want to break into the market. The tough part is overcoming that benchmark.

By: JonJon

JonJon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:58:51 +0000

Funny you say how you are a big fan of Google since over the last year you have been asking if such and such a program is the next “Google Slayer” several times. You appeared to be very anti-google at one point and seemed to be turning away from them.

By: Jason Detchevery

Jason Detchevery — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:31:51 +0000

I’ve also been relying only on Gmail to handle my other accounts for about 2 years now (my school email, and my gmail itself). Only snag I ran into is that if I email someone else at my school’s domain it often ends up in their spam quarantine because a lot of people are using Gmail accounts for spamming so the filter either blocks all incoming Gmails, or blocks ones where the return address is a school-domain address (which I often use) since it can look like a spoof.

By: JK

JK — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:22:55 +0000

This is JK, founder of Xoopit. Thanks for the shoutout! Always feel free to hit us up with suggestions and feature requests.

By: Kevin S. Brady

Kevin S. Brady — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:30:56 +0000

I have had good results so far with forwarding several email accounts into Gmail. However, I was hesitant to do the same with my “real” email account, and use Thunderbird for that. (I can’t port my Hotmail account into Gmail even if I wanted to, but that’s a different story.)

But I’m inspired now and might have to make Gmail my one-stop shop for email.

By: Rutger Blom

Rutger Blom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:18:11 +0000

Wise decision. I stopped using Thunderbird for about a year ago and started using Gmail instead and I don’t regret this so far. My ultimate goal is to exchange all of my local applications for web applications.