Comments on: 5 Extensions to Make Thunderbird Gmail-Friendly

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:01:15 +0000

@Anders

No, I hadn’t. And now I have. Pretty impressive – this might actually be enough to switch me back to a mail client.

cheers!

Richard

By: Anders Vinther

Anders Vinther — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:17:42 +0000

Richard,

Have you tried the new search in TB3?

I am like you: I archive my email in event order in my inbox – or in other words I don’t label of organize my emails.

Until recently I have only been using Gmail, but now I am using Thunderbird on my own computers and Gmail when I am away….

And I am quite happy with the new Search in TB3.

I like the easy attachment handling and the fact that on my netbook I can read and respond to my emails offline, and then send them when I get a connection…

Anyways, just my two cents…

Anders

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:05:45 +0000

TBird lacks the ONE most important thing about GMail for me … good search. I am not an organised and consistent enough person to use folders and labels effectively, so the ability to search through all of my email effortlessly is essential. Also, I don’t want to store gigabytes of email locally in TBird.

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By: AndersVinther

AndersVinther — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:51:24 +0000

Hi Mark,

We have just released a step by step guide for how to set up Thunderbird and Gmail to work seamlessly together. You can get a free copy at www.Easy-Email.net.

It tells you everything you’d want to know about this stuff…

Cheers,

Anders

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:28:08 +0000

I have in my gmail a second email added, which is my standard email address instead of ….@gmail.com I have my own mail address info@mark.nl. I know want to use thunderbird to send and receive with gmail imap, but with this second added email address?
Does anybody have any suggestions?

By: Dima

Dima — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:51:55 +0000

Thanks for the overview from someone just starting with Thunderbiurd! Saved me few hours of research!

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By: trflick

trflick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:29:10 +0000

6 person business on Outlook 2003 too heavy slow and time to move. HEAVY users of folders that are making pst’s huge. Only POP3 no Exchange. Do use iPhone and Blackberry for remote making web based less important. TBird or Gmail?

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By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:34:44 +0000

@SteveA,

Does the conversation style you suggest show the emails you wrote in that conversation as well?
I hope this style doesn’t collect mails by same subject line, like I have 100 emails with Hi There as a subject line written to or recd from different people over the period of time, does it take all those emails together (as Outlook 2007 does)

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By: SteveA

SteveA — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:32:37 +0000

Thunderbird does support viewing by conversation:
View -> Sort by -> Threaded | Unthreaded

Just like Gmail only easier to read.

By: yogi

yogi — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:43:42 +0000

David – I’ve only been using it a week and the main use is as a local backup for gmail.
So for me gmail is still the main interface and will be forever as far as I’m concerned.

That said, in this short time I’ve been impressed by how quick the application is and also by the tabs that allow easy access to attachments.

But I still haven’t found a way to display or print all my contacts which is weird.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:06:40 +0000

Hi,
very nice article, may I can advice some other plugins. First one is ContactSidebar, that showes your adressbook in your sidebar. Another is Quickfolders. I have written an articel over that plugin. Here it is: http://opencom.redio.de/programmvorstellung/quickfolders-addon-fur-thunderbird.html but I’m sorry, it is written in german not in english

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:10:19 +0000

I second Yogi. I don’t care about other features but all I want is Gmail like sorting. None of the email clients do it so far. Even I am using Postbox but still Postbox shows Gmail like view only when you open that email and click on ‘Show All’ button. Its still not a replica of Gmail, definitely better than what Thunderbird can offer.
Only complaint with postbox is, the user guide is not extensive but taking into account, its in beta, its acceptable.

By: David Pierce

David Pierce — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:55:37 +0000

@Yogi – What’s your impression of Postbox so far? I used it some, loved how good it was at searching, but never really got excited about anything else. What do you think?

By: yogi

yogi — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:51:02 +0000

I’ve always found thunderbird to be very slow, and I can’t stand not being able to sort emails by conversation’ like in gmail.

I use gmail with a new desktop app I’ve just heard about: postbox. It’s like gmail but on the desktop.

By: robin

robin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:45:12 +0000

def use thunderbird every day. just old school and prefer the client-side approach to email. like you it all comes through gmail.

keeping an eye on this new product:

http://www.postbox-inc.com/

have to see how it matures, see if they have a linux version, get a gauge on their staying power. tb is under active development by mozilla, but this looks nice. hope they have the $$$ to keep at it.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:51:45 +0000

David nice article. I personally use basic Thunderbird with just a few add-ons installed but nothing that adds anything that Gmail offers but Thunderbird does not. Until now I have not missed a thing.