On 05/10/16 21:24, Jack Waters wrote:
I use AOO and Office 2007. I use office word very little, just for certain
things like address labels, and Outlook. Can anyone tell me anything about
Thunderbird, or give me info on a Thunderbird list? I want to see if I can
set up my groups and all of my addresses in Thunderbird and stop using
Outlook.
C. J. [Jack] Waters
Police Sergeant, Retired
Forensic Unit Manager, Retired
Tampa Police Department
Insight: "The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they
can bribe the people with their own money." -Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859)
Jack,
I've used Thunderbird since, well, I don't remember it's been so long.
I hated
Outbreak when it came out, and the support I have to provide(I'm the de
facto IT head here),
to keep thatmiserable pile of crap running makes me grind my teeth.
Thunderbird does everything a mail/organizer is supposed todo. I have
35 different
email accounts set-up on it, to deal with our various domains, and
probably over 1000 mail
filters to direct mail to the appropriate folders.
IMAP is the way to go as it syncs my mail across my various computers,
tablets, and phone.
Things to do when you install TBird.
1) Install Lightning (calendar extension)
2) Provider for Google Calendar, (allows sync with google calendars). If
you're an Android
phone user, it will allow you to sync calendars across all devices with
your gmail login.
3) INSTALL "DISABLE DRAG N DROP". This little gem is awesome. I can't
tell you how many
times I accidentally dragged a folder into another one and didn't know I
did it. Then, could
not find the folder. This prevents that and it's great.
4) Install "Folder Pane View Switcher". Great extension for switching
folder views.
5) Install "ThunderKeep". Again, if Android, this puts Google Keep in a
tab in TBirdand allows
syncing across all devices.
there are other great extension you can add to extend the functionality
of TBird,and that's the
difference with open source software. Stuff from SoftSquishy (Micro$oft)
is designed to make
the shareholders rich. Software from Open Source is designed to solve
problems, accomplish
tasks, and work for the user.
I have tomaintain Outbreak for the people here, but I don't have to use
it. Exercising my right
of freedom of choice, I choose to use a functional piece of software
instead of blindly following
the SoftSquishy lemmings over the cliff.
don morse
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