Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Outlook and Thunderbird Email Clients

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Outlook and Thunderbird Email Clients

I have been using Outlook by Microsoft since 1994, along with the rest of the Office Suite. I admit that I didn’t renew the package every year, but had Office 1993 and then 2003 for ages until support for them was discontinued recently. Outlook was the first of the 2003 suite to start to misbehave, so I needed to replace it.

I didn’t like the deals that were on offer, so I tried Open Office. That is a good substitute, but there is no email client, so I had to keep looking. I tried several, but eventually alighted on Thunderbird by Mozilla, although I think I heard that they will cast Thunderbird adrift soon.

It is difficult to change after twenty-years of using the same method, so it was expected that I would find the problems with Thunderbird rather than the benefits first. Having said that, the biggest drawback for me is that I have to check all thirty-one of my email accounts and empty their respective rubbish bins separately. Why can’t there be just one button to empty all the junk, dross and read items?

Anyway, you can get used to that, especially since Thunderbird handles junk email so well, although you have to deal with the junk for each account separately too. Other filters are better. You can set up filters (fot each account again, but have all the email trapped by them sent to one account.

Perhaps I haven’t found out how to use Thunderbird in the best possible way yet, but I am becoming happier with it by the day and recommend it.

I am currently testing out it with the WPS office suite, but I haven’t worked out whether that is free or just a trial, since it is free to me on my Kindle, and was offered to me on my new Asus laptop.

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Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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