Given that Mail is so completely useless at the moment, has anyone tried Thunderbird under Mavericks?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Mail just working fine for me. What problems do you have?
I'll install Thunderbird and test it.
Hi mmollo22. I use an external monitor with my iMac - Dell U2412 connected via RGB
Mail window on Dell - Reply window appears then almost immediately disappears UNLESS
1) Full screen mode
2) Pre-existing Reply window exists and is visible
Mail window on iMac - Reply window appears on Dell regardless of pre-existing windows. Full screen mode reply
window appears on the iMac.
Others are having Gmail difficulties. I haven't tested mine thoroughly yet, but it seems unaffected, which would also be strange.
Thunderbird doesn't like Mavericks. It just get caught on a server bug error on my IMAP account. I try to open messages that worked fine in 10.8.5 and they won't open in Mavericks. Mail on the other hand opens the same messages. Sounds like Thunderbird needs some special server settings under Mavericks.
Scratch that, it just need Spotlight disabled, and uses the global search instead. I still get the occasional server error, but messages that before wouldn't load now do. It just takes patience, and playing a bit with the setting.
I've been using Thunderbird v24.0.1 all day today on Mavericks with no issues. I had no issues yesterday either. I actually chose Thunderbird when I first migrsted to MacOS because I could configure ThunderBird for MacOS and ThunderBird for Windows to both use the exact same profie, and therefore always have the current local data stores no matter which OS I was running at the time.
Well that's good to hear, I wonder if I have too many messages for Thunderbird. Who knows. I'm using IMAP, and it still occasionally gets a [SERVERBUG] issue. No idea what that is about.
If anyone has too many messages, it might be me. I have about 30 different accounts (from more than 6 different providers), and my local folders are over 19GB now. I have GMail going back to 2006, and a couple other accounts going even further back... I think I started using ThunderBird back around the v3.x days, and I just haven't bothered to change because it jsut works for me. I did have a period in there where if I let my MacOS system go to sleep, then it would take ThunderBird a couple minutes to actually close when I tried to exit, but that hasn't happened in a while either.
I upgraded to Mavericks today from Snow Leopard. So far so good.
Thunderbird Daily v27.0a1 (2013-10-22) is working fine so far. I use TB with 7 separate IMAP accounts and 2 POP accounts.
Neither Apple Mail nor Thunderbird work for me under Mavericks. Both fail to connect with the mail server.
Apple needs to fix this ASAP.
Mac Mail after mavericks brings my MBPro to a crawl. CPU utilization is typically 50% or more at times. I'm not using mail now, using web gmail, looking for alternative to Mac mail. Wondering why the reported symptoms are so varied! Watching for an OS update from Apple or a tutorial on proper setup of mavericks mail with gmail.
I installed Thunderbird under Mavericks this morning. The only problem that I face is that there's no sound when new emails arrive. Some times there is so I figured out that the sound plays if and only if a popup notification appears from the notification center. So, I concluded that this is not a sound problem but a notifications problem. Do you face the same problem with me? Any suggestions?
Thunderbird has worked fine for me EXCEPT that the mail window does not open until I click the Thunderbird icon in the dock a second time. Admittedly, I'm using a very old version (3.0.1).
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Okay . . . I just updated to version 24.1.0, and there are no problems of any kind. It kept all my old settings, changed the icons a little, works faster and adds new options, like Chat. I've been a fanatic for keeping Firefox updated and there's no excuse for my getting so behind on Thunderbird.
If you're having Tbird problems, I suggest updating to the latest version and set your preferences to automatically updating or automatically checking for updates.
Jeese - You have been trundling along on version 3.0.1 all this time? Wonder how you ever got to the update to the .0.1 from 3.0
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I use the 'Daily' version - today's being v28.0a1 (2013-11-03) and have absolutely zero issues on Mavericks with 12 extensions enabled
I agree Mail is a complete disaster since the upgrade to Mavericks. For exemple it crashed several times when click the sent button (very nice). Sometimes I could find back my mails in the drafts, some other times not... And plenty of strange behaviours, well let's call it not stable ! I cannot use this for professional purpose for sure.
I switched to Thunderbird some days ago. It took me a bit of time to get used to it and to find all the add-ons I need. But now I am very happy using Thunderbird user, it works like a charm with mavericks, I have no issues...
I, too, switch to Thunderbird in the last 24 hours and have noticed the lack of sound for incoming mail. Using Mavericks. Tried PostBox (still installed), but still not comfortable with PB after a few days of usage. (Details unrecorded . . . just noticed some idiosyncracies that make me uncomfortable.)
So far, TBird looking good, but it has taken many hours to get all my mail from gmail. o well.
Come on, Apple, we want our mail app back!
Has anyone tried Thunderbird with Mavericks?
