As far as I know........not really know but have been led to think..........Thunderbird is less vulnerable to spam and it seems to be true since I get very little and used to get a lot with Outlook Express. ******************************** Since 1972 * Jim Myers * Telrad Electronics * Fort Wayne Indiana * ******************************** Electric Medic wrote: > What can't Outlook do that Mozilla Thunderbird can? I use Outlook 2000 sp3. > It can search old archives, create folders, and so far the folders still > hold mail. Some folders have 15,000 emails. It can backup individual folders > or all folders to hard drive or CD. My outlook backup file is 1.3 gigs now > and still growing. Just curious how Mozilla and Netscape are better. Maybe > it's like these folks that don't like IBM's and swear by Mac's. I never used > a Mac. > > Perry Bower > Electric Medic > "It's Cheaper to Keep Her" > http://www.electricmedic.com > 3850 Washington Road Suite 4C > Martinez, Georgia 30907 > Phone: 706-8MEDIC4 (863-3424) > Phone: 706-863-3474 > Fax: 706-863-2316 > mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -----Original Message----- > From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Phil Bader > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:51 AM > To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [TechAssist] Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to back up lots of > emails off the PC?] > > > > > I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my email.It looks and feels like my old > familiar netscape 4.7. It seems better than Outlook express as for > sorting and searching high volumes of my tech emails archived in folders. > I want to be able to drag and drop (copy) the email over to some medium > off the PC like a USB hard drive, DVD,etc. Outlook Express scatters it's > data all over. The old Netscape,I could go to programs, netscape, mail, > users, folders and get the actual mail folders and slide them to a back > up medium. If I wiped the PC HDD clean all I needed do was reload > Netscape, go back to programs, mail, users,etc and reinsert all my > folders back on the HDD and it was all there as before. > I don't see an easy method here. > Any answers to this? > I am terrified I may lose this valuable info. I probably have several > gigs and more than several hundred thousand emails with a wealth of > fix-info. > Phil Bader > > > -- > > Philip Bader > Jan Phyl TV Inc. (estab. 1976) > 3420 Recker Hwy. Winter Haven, Fl. 33880 > Fax (863) 299-8821 > email: tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Appliance Repair List: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/chatjoin.htm#app > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Appliance Repair List: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/chatjoin.htm#app > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Appliance Repair List: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/chatjoin.htm#app Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/