Hey, thanks for the fix I've been struggling for ages with that one - using it now.
I noticed that Thunderbird 3 has just been released, so I downloaded it to have a look if that bug has been fixed and it appears it has.
I installed the binary by unpacking it in my home directory rather than trying to find any debs and replace my working T2 setup. I'm glad I did because I don't think I'm going to use T3 - didn't really like it.
Nice fancy account wizard. All I needed to do was to type in my gmail address and password and it did everything for me. I didn't even need to tell it that it was a gmail account - single dialogue box, two entries: username & password. That part was good. The part I didn't like was that it configured my account for IMAP access rather than for POP3 and there was no way to change it. Perhaps if I disabled IMAP in my gmail settings and tried again maybe, but I didn't get that far. It uses a local cache for the IMAP so I assume that it can be used offline when away from an internet connection. When connected it's constantly synchronising back and forth so that any changes in T3 are near instantly reflected in gmail and vice versa. With IMAP all your mail remains in gmail and T3, with POP3 all gmail mail is deleted once downloaded to Thunderbird.
I use my laptop 99% of the time, and 50% of that is spent working away from home and using a mobile broadband dongle. At times I do access gmail from the web interface and personal preference is to see it empty, not full of hundreds of emails from the various mailing lists I subscribe to! So I think I'll stick with POP3, T2 (plus the mailing list fix!) and my nice arrangement of folders and mail filters!
As a question, if I decided I wanted to start using T3 with IMAP would it be possible to import all my old, already downloaded POP3 emails from T2 into it? I doubt it.
Martin
Anthony Anson wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
Anthony Anson noted:
Thunderbird wanted to reply straight to you and not the list - have any of my other replies to list gone back to author, anybody?
Must watch this, and adjust something if so.
Mozilla Thunderbird has a known bug: it doesn't support email lists! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29041
Nine years on and still no fix in sight, but there is an extension at http://www.juergen-ernst.de/addons/replytolist.html which might fix it for you.
Hope that helps,
Thanks. Before I try to improve Thunderguts, I'm going to have look at K-Mail, which was recommended by the support bod at my ISP.
I like the look at it, and the Eee *SEEMS* to have elements of it in the filesystem, but as yet I've not worked-out how to conjure it all.