[ale] Thunderbird 3

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed Dec 9 11:59:55 EST 2009


Scott Castaline wrote:
> On 12/09/2009 11:04 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Scott Castaline wrote:
>>> On 12/09/2009 10:39 AM, Robert Coggins wrote:
>>>> Anyone using Thunderbird 3 yet?  If so, how do you like it?  Any issues
>>>> with it in linux?
>>>>
>>>> I updated on my mac with no issues other than finding the latest
>>>> lightning addons.  But, my Ubuntu machine had some slight issues. Mostly
>>>> with recognizing/changing imap account configurations and
>>>> changing my gmail account to use pop instead of imap.  It was almost
>>>> like it was reading a configuration that I had several years ago.  I got
>>>> it all worked out though.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else see this or other issues?
>>>>
>>>> Robert
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>>> Been using the Beta now for a while with Fedora 11. NPF other than
>>> addons are a little slow catching up. Also the first time you use it
>>> with existing mail folders it will index them and if you have large
>>> folders it can take a while. Once indexed though, it is faster than 2.x,
>>> plus the tabbing feature is good.
>> I wonder if they've fixed the filter forwarding bug?
>>
> I'm not sure which one you're talking about, but I was having problems 
> with filters working sometime back automatically from gmail. It seemed 
> when I switched to default skin they started working. My preferred skin 
> seemed to interfere (?) but since the last update to that skin all seems 
> to be fine for now. Don't know if that answers your question.

There's a bug where if you set up a filter that forwards an email to 
another email address, regardless of how you configure thunderbird.  I 
might give 3 a spin to see if it fixes the problem.
-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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