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Old 10-29-2009
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Re: For those buying laptops

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Originally Posted by iamwhatiseem View Post
Thunderbird is great...I really hated to see the IT guys in the sister group (My company uses IT guys and shares server resources with 4 other companies) choose outlook via an exchange server. It S U C K S.
Slow, painfully slow searching for mail (my box will contain 4-5000 emails on average as I get 60 - 70 legitimate emails a day) it freezes with no apparent reason sometimes. We had thunderbird before (my choice) liked it a lot. Only trouble with it was you better backup your mail box db's when updating.
Can Thunderbird link up with the exchange server? I've never been sufficiently annoyed by outlook at my office to try it. I use Thunderbird for tasks related to school (managing email and newsgroup subscriptions).

By the way, if you don't mind me asking, why is your IT consulting agency letting their other customers dictate your email arrangement? If I were in your shoes, I'd say it's time for a new IT consulting outfit (unless I'm misunderstanding the arrangement).
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