[ale] Thunderbird 3

[Geoffrey]

On 12/09/2009 02:02 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> 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.

I'm using 3 now, so I'll post what I find out.

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