Comments on: Gmail + Thunderbird + Addons

By: deuts

deuts — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:38:15 +0000

Well, this article is actually the best I can come up with. :D You should also promote Thunderbird in your blog, so your friends will know. :D

By: CypherHackz

CypherHackz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:45:56 +0000

I have about 20000 emails in my Gmail inbox. And yes, I was just installed Thunderbird to test its performance and such. So far I am satisfied with its performance just it takes time to fecth emails from Gmail.

Btw maybe you can write an article about why people should use/read Gmail in Thunderbird. :)

By: deuts

deuts — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:46:18 +0000

Well, if it’s the first time you set up Thunderbird, it surely will take time to download your gmail messages, especially if you already more than a gig of messages plus attachments. But you can set up Thunderbird to download all your messages including attachments (not just the headers), after which opening messages especially attachments will be faster.

If you wish, you can download your messages to your local machine, but that’s entirely another story. :D

By: CypherHackz

CypherHackz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:48:20 +0000

What I mean is in term of retrieving the emails in the inbox. If in Thunderbird, we need to wait for it to finish download all the headers of new emails in our Gmail inbox (using IMAP feature) and then if we want to read the new email, again, we need for Thunderbird to finish download the new email and open it.

But if we already in the Gmail, we only click on the subject and the email will be opened immediatly.

By: deuts

deuts — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:29:39 +0000

Hi CypherHackz, thanks for visiting my site. First of all, I’m not sure what you mean that Gmail is faster than Thunderbird. I mean, in what sense? For one, you can set up Thunderbird to download messages from Gmail so you can go back to them even though you are offline. Gmail is already great, adding an email desktop client is more awesome.

Add to that you can extend Thunderbird even better. There a lot of addons, just like I mentioned above, that will increase your efficiency in your daily workflow.

When you open Gmail, you are prompted with ads at the right hand corner of the screen. But in Thunderbird, those ads are stripped so that you’ll only see the message itself.

By: CypherHackz

CypherHackz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:50:08 +0000

I would like to hear opinion from you. Why do you choose Thunderbird even though you can also read your emails from Gmail website? If you see, Gmail is faster than Thunderbird.