I'm wondering how current you plan to keep the Thunderbird code base, or even which version of Thunderbird you have used. For example, the redirect plug-in I use in Thunderbird doesn't work with Spicebird. That is an enormously useful feature I use on a fairly regular basis.

Anyway, I'll either ask for that feature to be added to Spicebird or if you can tell me what version of Thunderbird is being used here, maybe I can find a version of the plug-in that will work.

-Sean

SpiceBird looks very good indeed. Unlike other apps it feels very light and looks already quite stable and complete to me.
I love the fact that you are planning for exchange support in SpyceBird. Currently there is no decent (freeware/opensource) email client that is able to interface with ms exchange, except for evolution for windows, but that project looks more dead then alive i'm afraid.

If you are going to support the Google Calendar in SpiceBird, could you make is so that the Google Calendar will be available offline also?
You can then also use the calendar on the road, which is currently not possible with the "Provider for Google Calendar" thunderbird extension.

Congratulations on building what seems to a promising competitor (?) for Microsoft Outlook. While technical bug lists are of course a priority, I would like to remind you to make Spicebird also visually appealing. I see from the beta that steps have been taken already in this direction.

In particular, I noticed that Microsoft Outlook (though bloated) presents an extremely professional email display pane, that makes emails look like more professional and appear somewhat like paper (in contrast to the blank white area displayed by Thunderbird and currently Spicebird). Further since the trend of computers is towards "widescreen" monitors, perhaps some attention should be paid to optimizing the interface to be useful in Widescreen. A simple example is the email list - in Thunderbird, the Sender and Subject appear in different columns, making them hard to read in the Vertical Layout View. Microsoft has apparently thought of this as Outlook displays the Sender and Subject one below the other in such a view. This extends to the kinds of Fonts used etc.

To some extent , browsers, PIMs and such are a group of software that depend on direct visual cues to the user (unlike a disk fragmenters for example). It is very important, imho, that they present an optimized interface. I am not sure what is the correct forum for this, since these are not technically bugs so please excuse me if this is misplaced.

Regards and best of luck, Nash

I am interested to offer a german language file for spicebird. If you provide me with the english language file, I would translate it.

Regards,
Tom

First of all thank you for the hard work in this program. I am not a programmer but I can imagine the long hours involved in this project. After running the beta for a week I am very happy with Spicebird. I can see this becomming a good Outlook replacement. The contact side of the program could use additional function and options. For example the ability to change the font size in list view would be great. Also the ability to custimize the card view,( font size and content) Also the search feature in contacts should allow for searching other fields such as city & company name. Thank you again and keep up the good work.

Running Spicebird on Fedora 8 Linux, Gnome & Windows Vista, the only time the program hangs is when changing from list view to card view in contacts.

Regards,

Rob Collins
www.techlifetalk.com

Do one have to port a Thunderbird/Firefox plugin to Spicebird? God! that will be a huge setback for Spicebird. Can't you make the Thunderbird extensions work out of the box in Spicebird ?
If I am an extension writer I wouldn't bother to port that plugin to N number of thunderbird forks. Nor can u ppl port all the extensions and manage them.

Do we really need to port? :(

Another one. No talk about two way synchronization with Google Calendar?

Anoop Engineer
http://www.dailygyan.com

ps: Yet another one. Why isn't there a Post comment button here. There is just a Preview Comment button. There is a Post comment button only in the preview screen.