Overall, Thunderbird is an excellent free alternative to Microsoft Outlook. There's also no calendar but again, this can be downloaded separately in the form of " Lightening". Thunderbird still doesn't have conversation style email views like in Gmail (although an extension to do this can be downloaded separately) and there aren't many options for managing attachments and photos. On the downside, the app is lacking some finesse in certain areas.
Whats more, Mozilla has finally given Thunderbird a real OS X look and feel rather than just a clone of the Windows version as in previous releases. One of the biggest selling points of Mozilla Thunderbird is, due to the launch of Snow Leopard, that it now offers Microsoft Exchange support, meaning it will appeal to Office users who previously discounted it. Security updates are regular but small so as not to slow-down Thunderbird. The reason being is that Thunderbird is regularly updated and crafted by volunteers who's main interest is making a better product rather than profiting from an end-product. So what about security? You might think an open source mail client would inherently be less secure than a paid one but Thunderbird is surprisingly secure, with a fairly bulletproof spam filter. Archiving is also another handy feature for those that don't want to delete messages but want to clear space in their inbox.
This is a fantastic feature of Thunderbird, although does tempt you to have too many mails open at once. Tabs in general are a very big part of Thunderbird and like Firefox, you can have multiple messages open in separate tabs. Search results are displayed in a separate tab. The search tool in Thunderbird is excellent and searches happen in real time as you type. Step 2: Select any option Convert Email or Convert Contacts & Calendars. Step 1: Start the tool on any macOS above 10.8 Version.
Nowadays, this is a little outdated because many people use a separate application - or even Firefox itself - to follow RSS feeds but it may be useful if you only want to mail and follow RSS feeds at the same time when composing mails. Follow simple Apple Mail file migration steps, First Download and Install the tool to Import Apple Mail to Mozilla Thunderbird. What makes Mozilla Thunderbird slightly more unusual is the fact that it comes with an integrated RSS reader. And of course, there's a built-in spell checker to make sure that your mails are professionally crafted. To stay well organized, Mozilla Thunderbird offers filters to deliver your mail into separate folders and inboxes. You can quickly import your mail and contacts from your Outlook or Mail account and set up POP3, IMAP or SMTP accounts in a flash. Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird is painless.
It's also now much faster and more stable than before due to the Gecko 5 engine. As well, I couldn't find anywhere in the settings where I could unsubscribe/selectively avoid downloading that folder.The fact that like Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird can be beefed up with all manner of extensions makes it an extremely competitive mail client. Bulk export download - Export Thunderbird to Apple Mail 5. but even worse, somehow during this process my anti-virus caught a few virus downloads that were in attachments. Outlook, Apple Mail, and Thunderbird are email apps: programs that you install on. So I try the mail app and it did the same. IMAP only downloads a message when you click on it, and attachments. In thunderbird there was a way to uncheck the subcription to that folder but either it was a glitch or something funny would happen and I would uncheck it, then open that dialog up again and it would be checked. No matter what I do, I can't seem to stop it from downloading the entire contents of the All Mail folder. I tried IMAP on both Thunderbird and the Mail app and ran into the same problem. I have been traveling a lot and trying to start using the folders on the server rather than how I used to - which is organize them locally ( I was using Thunderbird / POP config ). I have a gmail account I have used for a while, so there are heaps of old messages in the all mail folder.