[ale] Thunderbird 3

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 14:02:39 EST 2009


On 12/09/2009 11:59 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I don't use that, so I don't know if it's fixed or not.


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