Several weeks ago I decided to upgrade my mail client to Thunderbird because I assumed it would have more features and be an all round improvement on a very old version of Outlook Express. I was wrong.
You can create filters but quite frequently mail will sneak through even though it clearly matches a filter and is caught when you manually run a filter. The filters don’t have enough options either; if you want to delete a message before it’s downloaded, you have to set the mail account to “download headers only” which usually results in a load of blank messages that should have been deleted appearing in your inbox and stops new mail notifications appearing.
The order filters execute in is stupid too; instead of a sensible “stop executing more filters” option, all filters are run until a message is moved to a different folder!
Another irritating bug is when a message arrives but doesn’t appear in the list of messages. You know it’s there because the unread count next to the folder name is showing. To get it to show you have to either select “View: Unread” or search for it and doesn’t become visible in “View: All” even once it’s read or after the mail client is restarted!
Today Thunderbird crashed and when I opened it again and the inbox was rebuilt it showed thousands of spam messages from days ago that should have been completely deleted by my filters.
I am looking to switch to a new client.
Sometimes it even fails to collect an email! For instance, my Mac OS X Mail.app (another open-source email client) would show an email that i received, but Thunderbird would have failed to collect it, thus, not showing it anywhere. Talk about unreliability!
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