Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 Weirdness on both Mac OS X and Windows Vista
Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (actually most of the 2.x releases) has been behaving very weirdly on both Mac OS X and Windows Vista boxes. The weirdness is slightly different on each system but has the common element of auto-deletion behavior. Here's what I'm seeing on two different Windows Vista PCs and two different Macs. The email servers are IMAP4 mail servers.
Vista PC 1: Does not move messages tagged by SPAM Assassin to the trash folder as defined in Thunderbird's settings.
Vista PC 2: Correctly moves messages tagged by SPAM Assassin to the trash folder but does not move messages judged as spam by Thunderbird's own junk mail algorithms.
Mac 1: Does not move messages tagged by SPAM Assassin to the trash folder.
Mac 2: Moves random (or so it seems) clean messages (i.e., not tagged by SPAM Assassin or Thunderbird's own filters) to Trash. Moreover, if I manually click and drag the message from Trash to the Inbox, the files are automatically moved back to Trash.
I haven't seen any of these behaviors when using Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 on Linux boxes.
I'm pretty close to dumping Thunderbird from all my Windows and Mac boxes and moving to something else (not sure what yet though). Might go to Outlook 2007 and Entourage 2008 if I don't see any freeware or FOSS email client that appeals to me.
Why don't you use Mail under
Why don't you use Mail under Mac OS X? Entourage is an option only if you are connected to Exchange. Otherwise even Entourage 2008 is nowhere close to a modern mail app. MS has managed to release in 2008 a product that can't handle tables in HTML and is having major issues with Unicode? If that would be around 1998, I would imagine there is an excuse for that. But not 10 years after. I still have to use Entourage because no other mail app works properly with Exchange, and I need Exchange connection in the office.