thunderbird, hands down
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thunderbird, hands down Wednesday October 13
one of the things i need to pay attention to, particularly as i get older, is my stubborn nature. it keeps me doing things, for no good reason, other than it being the way i have always done them.
for example, for years i insisted that everything, ever, would be in lowercase. while that's mostly true, for many e-mails now, i realize that conformity is not necessarily required, but definitely a small price to pay in return for having your comments respected.
also, as some sort of weird collection fetish, i used to put all of my mp3s in the same directory. and i wouldn't sort. refused to. i ended up with over 3,000 songs in one directory on the old blackbox, and the net effect was that the directory took about 4 seconds to load. that's what directory trees are for. it took the corruption and subsequent massive data loss of that drive for me to finally change my ways.
luckily, i'm making strides. i've long thought that eudora was an inferior mail client. it certainly used to be superior, particularly to webmail, but it has absolutely no support for multinational character sets. for any japanese e-mail i received -- of which there are three or four commonly used character sets -- i had to copy the gibberish on my screen to a text file, save it, and view it with a web browser.
since firefox won me over so easily in the browser war, i figured that i might as well try its partner in crime, thunderbird. it is everything i wanted out of eudora, and nothing else. pure perfection.
