Migrating from TheBat! to Mozilla Thunderbird
TheBat! from RitLabs used to be the best email client for individuals and small business since ‘97 and until last year. There was simply no better solution that would be as compelling in price and features. We too have purchased the licenses and used these over some time. But as the time goes on new alternatives are being developed and made available to public for free. Moreover TheBat versions we used are no longer meeting our feature requirements. In order to get these new features and bug fixes, we would need to purchase an upgrade.
Thunderbird, as we discovered was flexible and feature-rich enough to meet all our requirements. So why pay for an upgrade if we can get a nice equivalent for free?
As an overall, I do not see a big business potential in shareware e-mail clients. The future looks towards web-based email for personal communication, Thunderbird as the most frequently used client in small business and MS Outlook as the main communication/collaboration tool for medium business and enterprise.
Nice Thunderbird tip: Always view messages in threaded view
Step by step: TheBat to Thunderbird mail conversion
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June 25th, 2008 at 03:46 pm
Have you tried the latest TheBat version? Do you think thunderbird is still the best email?
June 25th, 2008 at 04:29 pm
The latest version of TheBat definitely has more features and is much more powerful. But at the moment I don’t need more power than Thunderbird offers now. We get more than 30 support requests a day. Providing this support is comfortable enough using Thunderbird.
If the volume of support requests rises dramatically we will migrate the support line to one of the web-based ticket systems (e.g. TroubleTicket).