Much to the joy of many here, I'm sure, I've successfully switched over to Mozilla email and web clients. So far I am enjoying them, and I like the general feel of the programs. Firefox also seems faster at some things than IE (except for loading, but only by a little).

Thunderbird is a little behind in being an MS replacement, though. I have small annoyances with it, but they're pretty numerous.

The first one I don't expect to be able to do anything about, but I simply don't like being forced into having a seperate, complete set of folders for each email account. It might be nice as an option, but it takes up a lot of space in the folder view, especially when I have around 20 folders in my main account already. Anyway, I'm getting used to it, but I hope I don't have to add too many more accounts.

The main thing that's bugging me at the moment is the built in spam filter. The Spambayes plugin for Outlook was just a small project written by someone outside the Spambayes project, and it worked much better. I'm not talking about its effectiveness, but how usable it was.

For instance, I don't see any way to really train the spam filter other than over time. I imported over 2000 spam messages from outlook, and I think the process of marking them all junk at once may have trained it, but I have no idea.

Another thing I like about Spambayes was the simple operation. There were two buttons, depending on the folder you were in, and you had plenty of options on how they were used. In Thunderbird, there's an option that should mimic the "Delete as spam" button, but it simply doesn't work. Plus, there definitely seems to be a bug in the options window:



Why would the option under "Move them to my "Junk" folder" be greyed out? I have a junk folder, and the parent checkbox is checked, and I see no connection to the previous option. So, is this a bug? It gets un-greyed when the previous option is checked, but then it still doesn't do anything when I mark something as junk.

Any ideas?

Overall I'm very happy with it, and I enjoy figuring out these new programs. They still have quirks that I need to work out, but I enjoy solving them.