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Mass Migration/Bughunt For Thunderbird Tuesday

maggeth writes "mozillaZine is spreading the word of a plan to have a mass migration of users from other email clients on this coming Tuesday in order to find any remaining bugs in the migration process. 'Bring your Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook Express, and Communicator e-mail clients with you and join us on IRC for a day of testing the Thunderbird migration features. The goal is to get as many testing migrations performed on as many clients and as many operating systems as possible and to discuss and record all the problems in Bugzilla.' Read the full article for more details and for the IRC location."

208 comments

  1. Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by NoMercy · · Score: 0

    It was probably a old version of mozilla but I lost every single email and the addressbook, should still be there and the person involved is more of a write it down on a bit of paper than use the PC's addressbook feature anyway :)

    1. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      How about Thunderbird Windows to Thunderbird Linux?

      Why is there not a way to import Thunderbird mailboxes? You can try moving the profile by hand, and in doing so get a completely unusable email client.

      I would like to "Export to archive", and giving the options for archive email folders [option to skip junk], address book, pop/smtp settings, Signatures, all to a *single* .tgz. Leave out the "profile bits" like theme.

      This file should be importanble cross platofrm by all Thunderbird clients.

      All it would take would be a single xml file to "describe" the contents of the tar file, where you have most [cross platform bits] of your profile directory.

    2. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Good idea, but I'd like to take it a step further and make a "Browse to Profile" button so when I have a dual boot machine I can mount the Windows partition and use the same profile for both installs.

      --
      "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
    3. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would like to emphasize that now is a GREAT time to migrate to Microsoft Outlook! People complain about Microsoft products being perpetually in a state of Beta testing, yet they go out and support events such as this. Fantastic! You all suck. Microsoft software has never been responsible for a single freakin' bit of lost data in decades of total computing effort I've put my own systems through. Not one bit. Try that with OSS written by some thirteen year old whose source code no one will bother to read before compiling.

      You guys are all fucking dipshits. All of you.

    4. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by sglane81 · · Score: 1

      Thunderbird stores messages / folders in mbox format which is used by a bunch of other clients. Instead of moving the mail directory multiple times, move it to a place where all the mail clients you use can read/write to. I have mail clients set up on multiple machines which use the same mail directory on a remotely share/export/partition (external USB drive in my case).

      In thunderbird, Tools > Account Settings > Server Settings (for each account) > Local Settings

      Change that value to the share/export/partition and your mail goes with you everywhere you go.

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    5. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by Directrix1 · · Score: 1

      I'll second that! That is one feature that is sorely needed. Ditto for the browser. Fortunately, I set up an IMAP server down at work so at least the messages are the same between the two boots. But I still have to replicate the Filter Rules between both Thunderbirds. Very annoying.

      --
      Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
    6. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by jaavaaguru · · Score: 1

      While we're at it, Firefox could do with that option too. Burried deep within the settings dialog would be fine, since most people won't need to use it.

      That would be ideal for me too, since I mainly use Firefox on Solaris at work, and sometimes on a Windows box where I can mount my Solaris home dir via Samba.

    7. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by Beale · · Score: 1
      Microsoft software has never been responsible for a single freakin' bit of lost data in decades of total computing effort I've put my own systems through.
      I've lost plenty of data to Microsoft software, mostly via the stereotypical crash when you're not done doing whatever it is you're doing.
      That aside, Outlook has itself responsible for a vast number of virus epidemics, due to its low default security settings which Home User #53452 has insufficient knowledge to change.
  2. It'll fail by dtfinch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    to import folders with a '/' in the name.

    To lazy to jump through the hoops of bugzilla.

    1. Re:It'll fail by BrookHarty · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I'm using thunderbird on gentoo sparc linux with my exchange server via IMAP. Works great, not 1 single problem.

      Of course, I like the look of Evolution better, shiny buttons..

      On windows, been using thunderbird since it came out. (Netscape->Mozilla->Thunderbird) Been pretty easy, except that one time I told thunderbird to delete that profile I wasnt using. DOH!

    2. Re:It'll fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Can someone tell me why this 3 year old bug will STILL keep anyone from migrating from Eudora???

      As in, all HTML email is broken on the import, just because some jackass(es) think this "isn't their problem." If it's not Thunderbirds' problem, whose problem is it? You expect a normal user to download a PHP or Perl script to fix the broken import process? Yeah, right. People with this attitude (it's not that rare) in open source projects should be told thanks for their contributions, but your efforts are no longer needed, and shown the door.

    3. Re:It'll fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Yeah, right. People with this attitude (it's not that rare) in open source projects should be told thanks for their contributions, but your efforts are no longer needed, and shown the door."

      I don't detect any attitude in your response at all. None. Nada. Nil. Nothing. Good thing you don't have an attitude. That makes you perfect for telling those open source contributors who give freely of their time and talents about their attitude problems.

      P.S. I don't have an attitude either.

    4. Re:It'll fail by Myen · · Score: 4, Informative

      Please see bug 3157 on bugzilla.m.o

      Fix was chcked in near 2004-07-16 - any nightly / milestone after that should work (excluding the security updates; that's from different code)

    5. Re:It'll fail by Phroggy · · Score: 1

      People with this attitude (it's not that rare) in open source projects should be told thanks for their contributions, but your efforts are no longer needed, and shown the door.

      That's a pretty stupid idea. Do you know anything about how (and why) open source development works? People code because they like it. If somebody doesn't feel like coding something, you're suggesting that the Mozilla project should make them unwelcome, and not accept the code they DO feel like writing?

      If you want something done, that nobody wants to do, you have to either do it yourself, or PAY somebody to do it for you. If you want that bug fixed, and can't fix it yourself, consider donating to the Mozilla Foundation, so they can afford to pay people to fix bugs nobody wants to fix.

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      $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
    6. Re:It'll fail by arete · · Score: 1

      _Possibly_ if someone sent you an obnoxious email, that person shouldn't be doing user-relation management; that is, maybe they shouldn't be answering whatever public address you asked on.

      That's kindof unrelated to accepting or not accepting their code.

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    7. Re:It'll fail by Doctor+O · · Score: 1

      Too bad that 1.7.1 was released before that, which only leaves beta stuff with working Eudora import. Anyway, bug 3157 contains some perl script (replace.pl) which for me resolved the issue. Check it out if you want to use a non-beta version of Moz and still get your Eudora E-Mail over.

      http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3157
      (Clicking the link won't work from /. - copy to location bar!)

      --
      Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
  3. Hmm... by JoeLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sort of like Bug-Stock. A day-long festival of software, testing, and resolution.

    Sort of like Woodstock, except without all the kick-ass music, sex, drugs and alcohol. Hmm...never mind.

    Continual thought process in Doom3: "Where is the bad-guy going to pop up next? bullets be damned, I'm running out of clean shorts!"

    1. Re:Hmm... by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

      And remember, don't use the brown theme. It's bad shit, man.

      KFG

    2. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Continual thought process in Doom3: "Where is the bad-guy going to pop up next? bullets be damned, I'm running out of clean shorts!"

      Grab a laptop and play from the porcelain throne.

    3. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean in Doom 3, or the fugly IT section colours here on Slashdot?

    4. Re:Hmm... by kfg · · Score: 1

      Whoa! You mean they have it too? Far fuckin' out man. The fact that I have to deal with this while watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is just too much.

      I need more adrinachrome.

      KFG

    5. Re:Hmm... by Beale · · Score: 1

      It burns! (Also, my laptop is quite hot.)

  4. Back up your messages! by Jtf · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you plan to participate in this. Please remember to back up your email in case something goes wrong.

    1. Re:Back up your messages! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Captain Obvious called, he wants his post back...

    2. Re:Back up your messages! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Captain Obvious called, he wants his post back...

      YOU FAIL IT!!!!!

      It's supposed to be, "Thank you, Captain Obvious". I mean, duh.

    3. Re:Back up your messages! by LupusUF · · Score: 5, Informative

      "If you plan to participate in this. Please remember to back up your email in case something goes wrong."

      Wow, that is a great way to get a +3 informative.

      Let me try:

      Before you try to check for new messages, make sure that you are connected to the internet.

    4. Re:Back up your messages! by tehcyder · · Score: 1
      Hey, this is easy.

      Let's see.

      Before moderating ensure that you brain is in gear.

      --
      To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
    5. Re:Back up your messages! by flonker · · Score: 1

      You've obviously never done a stint in tech support.

      wanders off muttering about stupid users

  5. Pine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I use PINE now with folders in IMAP in local. Any suggestions on migration from the UNIX MBOX format?

    1. Re:Pine? by AnonymousCowheart · · Score: 2, Informative

      put your mbox file into /var/mail/USERNAME then set mozilla up to fetch from localhost

    2. Re:Pine? by gwhynott · · Score: 1

      If it is an IMAP server, you shouldn't have to do anything. point the new mail client to the server, your folders will all be there.

    3. Re:Pine? by value_added · · Score: 1

      "Will I be able to automatically migrate from my old copy of Pine?"

      I had already finished a relatively brainless and trouble-free "migration" from Outlook to Thunderbird, and because Thunderbird stores mail using standard mbox format, I had little trouble moving from Thunderbird to mutt. If you're using Pine, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to alternate between Pine and Thunderbird as you see fit.

      Personally, I don't see what the fuss is about, but if this helps the folks at Thunderbird work out little bugs, great. On the other hand, it's a fair comment that even a nifty GUI client like Thunderbird by design will lack features found in infinitely configurable console programs like pine or mutt. I doubt that's an issue for the average joe, but subscribe to a few high-volume mailing lists (or any advertising-laden mailing list like those found in Yahoo groups), you might find yourself increasingly frustrated using Thunderbird.

  6. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been hunting for a win32 email client that doesn't suck a bag of cocks. Anyone got any suggestions? I'd appreciate it a lot.

    There you go.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  7. Great! by gmuslera · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now i could be able to migrate from my webmail client Firefox to Thunderbird!

    1. Re:Great! by gnu-generation-one · · Score: 3, Insightful

      For anyone seriously needing to migrate from a webmail provider, there are various Perl tools such as yahoo mail downloader.

      If your favourite web-based data source doesn't already have a tool to access it using Perl, there are also web-scraper modules (and LWP) which make it easy to build your own. Remember to put it on CPAN if you create something new.

  8. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by Gunark · · Score: 1

    Thunderbird 0.7

    It runs on win32 and doesn't suck a bag of cocks.

  9. Re:Huh? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I should switch from a fully functional, secure, fast, and stable email client (Outlook) to some pile of shit just because you are having a special day for it?

    While we test our pile of shit, could you please ask the maker of your fully functional secure fast and stable email client to disable the feature that sends me spam each time some script kiddy mails you an .exe attachment? Thank you.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  10. great idea by rnd() · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is truly a great idea, and a great way to get people involved.

    If I hadn't switched to gmail I'd plan on participating.

    --

    Amazing magic tricks

    1. Re:great idea by op51n · · Score: 1

      This is fantastic. God I love Mozilla!

      I might do the migration on the work machine from Eudora to Thunderbird.
      I migrated from Eudora to Moz, to TBird, and it took some work back when I did it. But to bug test like this and try and get more people using TBird, is a great idea for sure.

    2. Re:great idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "If I hadn't switched to gmail I'd plan on participating."

      Mail::Webmail::Gmail

  11. Too slow and no YEnc! by applef00 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tried Thunderbird, but as a newsreader it sucked. Didn't handle multipart messages very well at all and had no support for YEncode (I don't care that it's not an official standard--it's a defacto standard which is extremely widely used and that's what counts). Without YEnc support, it's basically useless to me as a newsreader. It was also just too damned slow.

    I love Firefox, though! Great browser. Small, fast, etc., etc. Thunderbird just needs some more work before it's really there, IMO.

    1. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by dr_labrat · · Score: 1

      Google for yproxy (brawny lads)

      Its a windows (so might not work for you) yenc proxy. Works like a charm for me and its free!!

      --
      The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
    2. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by Magila · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I don't think thunderbird was ever meant to be a alt.binaries.* downloader, there's plently of other readers made specificaly for downloading warez from usenet.

    3. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's only a pedantic point, but Thunderbird does actually support YEnc. However, as you say, it doesn't work with multiparts (including messages in YEnc multipart format with only 1 part), so the support isn't much use...

    4. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Uhhhh yeaaaahhh....warez, that's the ticket. That's what I need yenc for, warez! I certainly wouldn't need it for porn, since I can always just have sex with my beautiful wife, Morgan Fairchild.

      - Tommy Flanagan

    5. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't think thunderbird was ever meant to be a alt.binaries.* downloader

      So what's the point of having a newsreader then? :-]

    6. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by bogie · · Score: 1

      Sorry but Yenc is a standard feature that pretty much every newsreader has these days. Pan, Xnews, Dialog, Agent all have yenc, why doesn't Thunderbird. Oh right...warez...*cough*....yea great reason.

      Anyway the parent is right. Thunderbird makes a lousy newsreader and its filtering capabilities downright stink. I know they are currently targeting the home user who does nothing but send and receive email but it really needs to offer more if its ever going to become popular among business users and especially technical users. Its just lacking way to many features. There are no better browser products then Firefox and Mozilla but Thunderbird comes in way behind Evolution on Linux and Outlook on Windows. Maybe its just destined to be a secure alternative for OE users to migrate to, and in that respect it suceeds. But this isn't 1998 and many want more from a Email/News client.

      --
      If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
    7. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someone on Slashdot, always trying to justify why the "alternative" doesn't and shouldn't support something. Yet everyone and their mother should be switching over to it because its better!

    8. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someone on Slashdot, always trying to justify why the "alternative" doesn't and shouldn't support something. Yet everyone and their mother should be switching over to it because its better!

      Thunderbird is primarily an EMAIL client, not a newsreader. It has basic newsreader functionality built-in. It should really be compared to other email clients with basic newsreader functionality built-in. Not to specialized newsreaders designed to download warez, stolen music and porn. (Since that's all YEnc is really used for... just admit it).

    9. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by applef00 · · Score: 1

      Fair enough; YEnc is used primarily for illicit activities. But as to comparing it to other e-mail clients with basic usenet functionality, even Outlook Express handles multipart messages correctly. It doesn't support YEnc either, though. Which is why I switched over to Xnews.

      For the record, there are other things that people take pictures of than naked girls and boys, or naked girls and boys. Or naked girls and girls, or naked boys and boys. You get the idea.

      The long and short of it is that YEnc is the defacto binary message format on Usenet. If you want to make a Usenet client, it needs to support YEnc. Otherwise, just make it a mail client and I'll use a sepereate newsreader.

    10. Re:Too slow and no YEnc! by Basje · · Score: 1

      Or use relay-yEnc (http://ziberex.dk/ENG-yEnc.htmI). It's a news proxy that does yenc encoding on the fly. It's also great to use in an organisation, where it will give you a single point to allow news data to/from. You can firewall the rest.

      --
      the pun is mightier than the sword
  12. Importing by Robowally · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, I have certainly had problems with the import facility in both Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird. I put up with the problems because I love the applications but at times they are a nuisance.

    Importing csv or tab delimited files always seems very confusing compared to trying it in Outlook Express - I had to use OE recently as an intermediate step between getting email addresses from OS X to Thunderbird. (Importing directly from OS X would be really useful too.)

    As an aside, if dragging and dropping addresses from addr. book onto Thunderbird's Send-To section, it works great except that dropping addresses onto a BCC field subsequently changes the 'next entry' field back to "To:" which is a nuisance.

    Also, the scroll wheel seems to corrupt a long list of addresses entered in the 'Send-To' section.

    I hope this is of some use to a developer somewhere!

    Thanks.

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    Karma? Sorry, i don't believe in superstition. http://talk.thinkingmatters.org.nz
  13. Thunderbird on TheOpenCD by HenrikOxUK · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Rumor is that Thunderbird and Firefox are hidden away somewhere on the soon to be released version of TheOpenCD. This special edition (1.4.1) will be handed out to an unsuspecting public at 17 different locations around the world (and counting) on Software Freedom Day, August 28th along with a custom version of Knoppix. About 10.000 copies are being produced. The new edition might even be out by Tuesday ...

  14. oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  15. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I've been hunting for a win32 email client that doesn't suck a bag of cocks."

    Whoah.. I didn't know Outlook could fit an entire bag of chickens in its mouth. How do I demo this?

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  16. Thunderbird Rules! by KB1GHC · · Score: 0



    First of all, if you haven't switched to Thunderbird yet, you are missing out!

    I've never had a problem with Thunderbird!

    Thunderbird saved me from having to change my email address, i was getting rediculous amounts of spam, but then i switched to thunderbird, and in less than a month i went from more than 125 spams a day to Zero.

    Thanks Mozilla!

    Thanks!

    Thunderbird is the BEST there is!

    I wrote an article about controlling spam using thunderbird on my website

    http://kb1ghc.home.comcast.net/spam.htm

    I recommend it to EVERYONE!

    1. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by Xner · · Score: 1

      I checked the link, but I couldn't find an article anywhere. I'm hoping for your sake you do not mean the three lines of text between the screen-shots.

      --
      Pathman, Free (as in GPL) 3D Pac Man
    2. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by sinner0423 · · Score: 1

      I'm not one to nitpick, but perhaps the reason you've been bombarded with spam is the fact that you freely post your email address without any sort of protection.

      For example.. lets say my address is monkey@asdfgbe.com. A bot would be able to pick this up in a heartbeat, (they use google, as well as search various news sites such as slashdot) and add me to a spam list. Now, had I chose monkey@@@asdfgbe.c o m, a spam script would have a problem parsing that as a real address, and it would be rejected. Do you get what I'm saying?

      I also notice that your page has a direct link to another email address, you may want to append the same junk characters to that, to circumvent the junk email. You should check in the slashdot options under the comment section, and select "show your email address with random SPAM-armoring applied (this changes weekly)".

      Mod me OT if you wish, I'm trying to help this guy understand the fundamentals of how some spam actually works.

      Oh, and yes, thunderbird is the greatest. :)

    3. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Technically, thunderbird didn't stop the spam, I mean, you're still getting it, you're just using the built in features. Anyway, there are MANY spam filters out there before thunderbird.

    4. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
      For example.. lets say my address is monkey@asdfgbe.com. A bot would be able to pick this up in a heartbeat, (they use google, as well as search various news sites such as slashdot) and add me to a spam list.

      Thanks, asshat. Try "example.com" next time. That's what it's for.

      - Monkey
      AsdFgBe, Inc.

    5. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by KB1GHC · · Score: 1



      i understand how spam works!!!!

      but thunderbird works so well, i don't really need to apply spam armoring, i don't even apply spam armoring to slashdot.

      spam armoring is more trouble than it's worth, now how the hell am i supposed to figureout your email address if it's "digtemail@@@email...com" WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? is it digtemail@email.com ?

      and i don't want to use javascripts because way to many people use web mail, and the mailto: will just open a mail client they don't use.

      besides that, i have fun with the "opt-out" sites, i wrote a script that generates random email addresses.

      and Thunderbird really does STOP spam, not just filter it, if you read my article on my website, showed how to change the options of the preview plane, i bearly get any spam at all, thanks to thundebird, and the very little spam i do get, thunderbird usually filters.

    6. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      OK, I'm sorry, but you're an idiot.

      spam armoring is more trouble than it's worth, now how the hell am i supposed to figureout your email address if it's "digtemail@@@email...com" WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? is it digtemail@email.com ?
      Uh, yeah. Believe it or not, every single email address on the planet has the same general syntax, and anyone with working cognative ability would figure out that since all addresses have only one at symbol, the above would probably also only have one dot. You answered your own question, anyway, by CORRECTLY DECODING THE ADDRESS. Way to make an argument, smart guy.

      and Thunderbird really does STOP spam, not just filter it, if you read my article on my website, showed how to change the options of the preview plane, i bearly get any spam at all, thanks to thundebird, and the very little spam i do get, thunderbird usually filters.
      The mail is still being delivered to your mailserver and into your inbox. It is not 'stopped'. Retard. It's a fucking client. It does not run on your server rejecting connections. Learn the difference between a CLIENT-SIDE APPLICATION and a SERVER-SIDE DAEMON before you start typing. Also, while you're figuring that out, please learn to spell. I can "bearly" understand you.

      Finally, thanks for being a piece of shit and helping to clog the fucking internet even more with spam by allowing harvesters to get your address.

      Posted AC because I know some moderator with some sympathy for the dumbass will mod me down.

    7. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by Whyrph · · Score: 2, Funny

      "spam armoring is more trouble than it's worth, now how the hell am i supposed to figureout your email address if it's "digtemail@@@email...com" WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? is it digtemail@email.com ?"


      Um, yes. It's digtemail@email.com. Is that THAT hard to figure out? I mean, really. How much effort does it take? It's not like you're ever gonna get it wrong.

    8. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by Com2Kid · · Score: 1
      • Um, yes. It's digtemail@email.com. Is that THAT hard to figure out? I mean, really. How much effort does it take? It's not like you're ever gonna get it wrong.


      Yah yah that one is simple, but some people like to put up crap like

      "Take the third sentence from the second paragraph of the GettysBurg Address, ROT14 the first half, and ROT12 the second half, then subtract out every second "A", clip off what should "obviously" not be there, and email!"

      Damn I hate people who do that.
    9. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by dolphinling · · Score: 1

      Okay, after deleting the As I get

      Ks vojs qcas hc rsrwqohs o dcfhwcb ct wh og o twboz dsghwbs bxmoq rd ftaes it pwqp tqdq ftmf ftq zmfuaz yustf xuhq.

      Frankly, I'm stumped. Wanna give a hint about the "obvious" part?

      --
      There are 11 types of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.
    10. Re:Thunderbird Rules! by sglane81 · · Score: 1

      After reading your article, you missed one major thing. Even if you have it set up for "don't load remote images" and "no Javascript", you will still get spam. When spammers send spam, they do actually check for bounces. If it bounces, they usually take you off the list. If the spam doesn't bounce, they know you're account is a good one and will keep you on the list even if they have no other feedback that you actually opened the email.

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      This is the Internet. You can say "fuck" here. - AC
  17. What if.. by Selfbain · · Score: 1

    ..we held a bug finding party and no one found any. Should you be upset or not?

    --
    Well, it has never been successfully tested.
    1. Re:What if.. by krumms · · Score: 1

      *scowls* Timmy, you're not trying to debug "Hello, World!" again, are you!??

  18. For those in the know -- Thunderbolt Thursday! by ZeekWatson · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt Thursday! Yeah!

    It happens every Thursday in the summer.

    Yup. Good times!

  19. Re:Huh? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Informative

    "While we test our pile of shit, could you please ask the maker of your fully functional secure fast and stable email client to disable the feature that sends me spam each time some script kiddy mails you an .exe attachment? Thank you."

    Sorry to suck the fun out of your witty comment here, but please don't confuse Outlook for Outlook Express. OL still has the occasional exploit, but it is nowhere near as bad as OLE. In all seriousness, with OLXP (released in 02 I think) you have to hack the registry to even get it to download an .EXE.

    (For the record, I did have a chuckle at this comment. ;))

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  20. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All recent versions of Outlook Express 6 and Outlook 2000 (with SR1), Outlook XP, and Outlook 2003 do not allow exe/scr/com/url/lnk etc extension attachments to be viewed.

    Only very old versions (like Outlook Express 5.5 or Outlook 98 or Outlook 2000 without SR1) still allow people to access executable attachments.

  21. Oh man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a bug hunt man, a bug hunt!

  22. Recently switched to Thunderbird by boggartlaura · · Score: 1

    And while I'm happy with it, the migration was impossible. Folders got corrupted and accounts got erased. Eventually, I just downloaded Eudora, imprted all my accounts and mail there, and then sent them to Thunderbird.

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    1. Re:Recently switched to Thunderbird by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 1

      Which mail client were you using before?

      FWIW, I imported all my folders from Outlook 2002 into Thunderbird 0.7.1 pretty effortlessly at work. I can't comment on the address books, filtering rules and so on, because part of the reason for moving was that Outlook is just plain screwed up in the number of bugs it has in these two areas, so I deliberately started from scratch in TBird.

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  23. Communicator 4.04 or TinyApps.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    I've always liked Netscape Communicator 4.04 for mail. I have never had a problem with it. The UI is simple, yet effective. No ads load (unlike 4.7x, though it's easy to remove in the prefs.js).

    If you prefer something ultra-light, there are some good ones at TinyApps.org too.

  24. Netscape? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It just blew my mind that Thunderbird has no option for importing a Netscape 4.x address book. WTF? I had to download Netscape 7 to convert the addressbook to LDIF and then import it into Thunderbird. Now that's just not right.

  25. Japanese font auto-detect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That still sucks big fat RMS balls.

    Selecting auto-select leads it to display the full headers and all text displays as garbage.

  26. Haphazard? by Kenshin · · Score: 1
    mozillaZine is spreading the word of a plan to have a mass migration of users from other email clients on this coming Tuesday in order to find any remaining bugs in the migration process.

    Somewhere at a car company...

    Engineer 1 - "Hey, our new car may burst into flames if people try to drive it."

    Engineer 2 - "I know... let's get as many people to drive it as possible so we can see what the problem is!"

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    1. Re:Haphazard? by ocelotbob · · Score: 1

      Bad analogy. People migrating with such tools know that there is a chance for failure, and if they have more than a couple brain cells floating around, will back up their email beforehand. Additionally, most likely, the big problems will be it not importing all the messages and settings, not total data loss.

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    2. Re:Haphazard? by Osty · · Score: 1

      Somewhere at a car company...

      Engineer 1 - "Hey, our new car may burst into flames if people try to drive it."

      Engineer 2 - "I know... let's get as many people to drive it as possible so we can see what the problem is!"

      That's actually not a terrible idea, given proper precautions. Equip the drivers with proper safety equipment (nomex suits, gloves, shoes, fire retardent underwear, helmet, etc), put them on a controlled test track with fire and medical personnel on-site, put measuring equipment in the stable of cars so you can record information that will help you later determine the cause, and let the drivers have at it. Granted, it would work better with a few properly qualified test drivers, but so long as all of the safety concerns are covered it could be a fun experience for "average" drivers. I'd sign up!

  27. that's a bad idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    IRC? ... Why don't they just communicate the testing results through email instead.

    1. Re:that's a bad idea by AnonymousCowheart · · Score: 1

      Because most ppl people that would participate in this HAVE an irc client, if not, it's included in Mozilla anyway.

  28. cross platform offline e-mailing by ongeboren · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm actually interested in reading the same e-mails on my dual-boot machine (windows + linux). It's very time consuming to have to switch to linux to find some important e-mail, because you have it in your linux e-mail client.

    As mozilla is a cross platform application, it should be able to work with the same offline e-mails.. lets say stored in a fat32 partition, so we could write to it from linux as from windows.

    Any suggestions how to do this?

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    1. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by Homology · · Score: 1
      I'm actually interested in reading the same e-mails on my dual-boot machine (windows + linux). It's very time consuming to have to switch to linux to find some important e-mail, because you have it in your linux e-mail client.

      If you ISP's mailserver offer IMAP, then you can access the e-mail from both linux/windows since the e-mail is stored on the server. You might run out of space on the server if you get many e-mails and don't delete so often. Several e-mail clients can be configured to download the entire message, in case the mailserver is not accessible.

    2. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You didn't get the original post. It goes about *OFFLINE* e-mails, not online. Everybody knows about IMAP and how to use it. Obviously you need an offline solution, when your mailbox gets several GBs big.

    3. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by gnu-generation-one · · Score: 1

      "As mozilla is a cross platform application, it should be able to work with the same offline e-mails.. lets say stored in a fat32 partition, so we could write to it from linux as from windows."

      In MozillaMail, you could do this by setting the mail folder to:
      "/mnt/win_c/documents\ and\ settings/username/.mozilla/default/something.slt/ Mail/mail"

      Windows can't read linux partitions (and most people wouldn't trust it with write-access to their linux data anyway), so it's not so easy the other way around.

      The general solution would be to put your mail on a USB key if its small enough, or your ipod if it's not, and mount that from either OS.

    4. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by Dreadlord · · Score: 3, Informative

      Quite easy to do, I used to do so when I had a Windows parition, run Thunderbird with the profile manager:

      Start > Run: thunderbird -ProfileManager (under Windows)
      $ thunderbird -ProfileManager (under Linux)

      Create a new profile, select a directory for the profile on a FAT partition, then create email accounts, and import email (if any).

      Now on the other OS, run Thunderbird with the profile manager again, create a new profile, select the same directory, you are set.

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    5. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by r.jimenezz · · Score: 3, Informative
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    6. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by Osty · · Score: 4, Informative

      If you ISP's mailserver offer IMAP, then you can access the e-mail from both linux/windows since the e-mail is stored on the server. You might run out of space on the server if you get many e-mails and don't delete so often. Several e-mail clients can be configured to download the entire message, in case the mailserver is not accessible.

      Better yet, get yourself a cheap old computer, set it up with linux, a good MTA (exim, postfix, qmail), an imap server, and fetchmail. Use that machine to fetch all of your mail from your ISP, in which case it won't matter if the ISP uses POP3 or IMAP. Then set up your mail clients on your dual-boot box to point to your local mail cache instead of your ISP. You can even setup the mail clients to use the local server to send mail, if you like. There'll be a small delay in receiving mail this way, though you can setup fetchmail to poll more often if you like, but I've never found that to be a problem. Finally, you can also setup a good spam solution like SpamAssassin and solve your spam problems in a single place rather than relying on the varying spam features of your different email clients (assuming they even have spam features, unlike a lot of console-based clients like pine or mutt).


      There are more benefits for running your own server like this, too. It doesn't have to function solely as a mail machine. You could install Squid and an ad-killing plugin like AdZapper, and use the box as a web proxy. You could setup NAT and a DHCP server and have yourself an internal network that will support N clients, all with ineternet access, without having to buy a pre-packaged router (and you can do this with a single dialup connection, if you can't get broadband -- I don't know of any consumer routers you can buy that will dial on demand for you). You can firewall your entire internal network from a single point. You could add a wireless access point for cheaper than it would cost to buy a wireless router, plug it into a port on your switch, and have an instant wireless network. Setup samba and have an internal file share network. The sky (and hardware you have available) is the limit!

    7. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can also set up SquirrelMail if you go to the trouble of setting up an IMAP server like Dovecot (which ain't that hard), and have access to your email from any Web browser-equipped computer you'd like (hint: make sure you enable SSL for Apache first)

    8. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 1

      I'd mod you guys informative if I weren't posting; I've been looking for a good way to do this for ages. (In fact, a separate FAT32 partition for data exists on my hard drive precisely so when I finally install a serious version of Linux, I can do this sort of thing.)

      Unfortunately, AFAICS, the approach on texturizer.net still leaves you with two separate copies of prefs.js, which aren't in sync. Your mail folders might be in the same place, which is certainly a good start, but I suspect some (but not all) of the other preferences should also be shared; I can't imagine wanting anything other than the UI-related stuff to be different on the two platforms. That's obviously going to be more work for the development guys, so I can understand why it hasn't happened, but hopefully at some point the number of us dual-booting will be significant enough to justify a more complete solution to this problem.

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    9. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by bhtooefr · · Score: 1

      Not to kill your point, but Actiontec has a 2-user 56K modem that swaps the WAN port for a 56K modem.

    10. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by ticktockticktock · · Score: 3, Informative

      Texturizer's FAQ is outdated since Thunderbird 0.7 when it comes to the need to hand modify the paths in prefs.js. Thunderbird 0.7 and newer support relative profile directories so you no longer have to hand-modify the prefs.js with new paths everytime you move the profile around, which also means you can load a windows-generated profile directly in the linux version of Thunderbird without making a single hand-modification to prefs.js. All you have to do is start thunderbird with the "-P" option and point it to the path where your profile is in windows. Once done, any changes to anything (new/deleted mailboxes, account settings, and other preferences) in the linux version will be visible in the windows version.

    11. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by MntlChaos · · Score: 1

      Either go into Accounts and edit the folder where mail is stored to point to the same folder, or use a symlink to have the "Mail" subdirectory in your profile point to the same place.

    12. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by Sentry21 · · Score: 1

      I use IMAP for all my mail needs - I know, it's a perfect solution to a problem you didn't ask about, but it's still an option. I found I was moving from one computer to another, logging on from websites, various webmail clients, and so on. Eventually, I gave up on moving my e-mail from one computer to another and back, and set up an IMAP server. The reason this works, of course, is that I have a server I can run it on that isn't affected by my constant moving.

      Perhaps if you have a friend with a stable server somewhere, you could have it fetch copies of your e-mail every 5 minutes but leave them on the server (maybe for two or three weeks, then deleting them). That way, you could keep your current e-mail, have IMAP access to your mail, and still have redundancy in case his machine blows up.

      This does require your local client to keep full copies of the e-mail cached locally, which some can do and some won't. If they do, you will get an error message when you first open your client, then you can browse at will, read e-mails, write replies, and so on. The only thing you can't do is move messages around, delete them, and so on, until you get access to the IMAP server again.

      Just a thought. Probably too much work for what you want to do, but I'm in a tech-head mood tonight.

      --Dan

    13. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by afd8856 · · Score: 1

      I might sugest getmail instead of fetchmail... you wouldn't want to use anything by Eric, right? :)

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    14. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by DataCannibal · · Score: 1

      For fucks sake! He may be an arsehole but he doesn't bomb children or torture little furry creatures and fetchmail works, so I use it.

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    15. Re:cross platform offline e-mailing by afd8856 · · Score: 1

      No, it's just that fetchmail is written in C and has a history of security holes, while getmail is written in Python and those immune at least to buffer overflows.

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  29. Don't forget to install enigmail too! by Nelson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get it here and PGP/GPG all your messages, at the very least start signing them.

  30. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  31. How about from Thunderbird on another HD? by sahonen · · Score: 3, Informative

    I recently upgraded my computer from 98 to 2000 on another hard drive. Took me forever to figure out how to get my old email into Thunderbird on the new hard drive. Shouldn't this be just slightly easier?

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    1. Re:How about from Thunderbird on another HD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I recently upgraded my computer from 98 to 2000 on another hard drive. Took me forever to figure out how to get my old email into Thunderbird on the new hard drive. Shouldn't this be just slightly easier?

      NO!

      Thunderbird users are supposed to know how to do this kind of thing on their own. And if they can't figure it out, RTFM!!

    2. Re:How about from Thunderbird on another HD? by CJSpil · · Score: 1

      Your comment highlights exactly what is wrong with the open source community in general, where your "You suck, RTFM" attitute seems remarkably common.

      The parent got it dead right, if Thunderbird want to gain mass acceptance and be used by everyones granny everywhere, then this is the kind of issue that needs to be addressed!

      Telling most peoples granny that to get their email back, they need to copy the weirdly named profile directory to c:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Mozilla and then edit prefs.js is probably going to earn you a blank stare!

      Don't get me wrong, I love Thunderbird but it still needs a fair bit of work. (Using mozilla again now though as I got bored with having Tbird and Firefox seperate, not to mention the fact that most of the useful features in mozilla seem to have been removed in firefox)

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    3. Re:How about from Thunderbird on another HD? by sahonen · · Score: 1

      98 as in... Windows 98. My computer was originally built in 96 and has since been upgraded one component at a time when I had the money. The last upgrade was the hard drive (250 GB, yay!) and operating system (Windows 2000, 'cause XP sucks).

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  32. Palm Sync by cloudscout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If only it could sync with Palm and/or PocketPC. I could get a lot more people to switch to it.

    1. Re:Palm Sync by MrWizzle · · Score: 1

      Bingo. Thanks to my shiny new PDA, I have to move back from Thunderbird to Outlook. Teh suck. (BTW - migration from Outlook to Thunderbird was a piece of cake. Going back... not nearly as fun.)

    2. Re:Palm Sync by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 1

      Meh. The hassles of using ActiveStync and Outlook weren't worth it, so I just don't put e-mail on my PocketPC. Actually I mostly use it as an MP3 player. Winampaq supports OGG, hooray.

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  33. Robbing Peter to pay Paul by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 1

    When you migrate Mozilla Mail users to Thunderbird.

  34. os x address book by Maznafein · · Score: 1

    When the hell will thunder bird actually start using this? That's my only problem with it. The only time I use it is when i'm on my power book. I use pine elsewhere.

    -maz

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  35. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by smacktits · · Score: 1

    Thanks for all the suggestions, I'm looking through those sites now.

    I wonder why my original post was modded flamebait; it was a genuine problem/question.

  36. Gone and done it. by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 1
    We've gone and slashdotted mozilla. You think they'd have this figured out by now...

    While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?
    The following error was encountered:
    * Connection Failed
    The system returned:
    (110) Connection timed out
    The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
    Your cache administrator is webmaster.
    Generated Sat, 07 Aug 2004 23:31:30 GMT by kitkat.mozillazine.org (squid/2.5.STABLE4)
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    1. Re:Gone and done it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thats mozillaZINE. Mozilla is working just fine!

  37. MODERATORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How the hell is this "Offtopic"?

    It's as on-topic as it gets. It may be redundant, even overrated, but not off-topic.

    1. Re:MODERATORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Didn't you know? Anyone who mentions that their system runs Gentoo is automatically modded down for being insufferably smug. It's somewhere in the FAQ, I forget where.

    2. Re:MODERATORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      How the hell is this "Offtopic"?

      Don't worry, we'll fix it in M2. It totally sucks that some cockbiting fucktards don't bother to even read the post before they moderate.

  38. Is Thunderbird slow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I use Thunderbird .7 and it's really slow and uses like 120mb of RAM. I figured it's just because I have 10,000 emails in one folder, but I like being able to search everything in the same folder. Is there a better way?

    I posted the question in the forums but no one has answered it

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=6604 49#660449/

  39. Remember by GarfBond · · Score: 1

    Mozilla and Thunderbird, and Netscape Communicator before that, all use the mbox mail format. What this means is that importing mail stored as mbox should be decently easy on all three of those. You might have to do some steps manually, but it'll work.

    However, I'm pretty sure they're wanting to test out the automated importers, which is all a consumer wants to use anyway :)

    As always, remember to backup your emails before beta testing like this.

  40. Obligatory Aliens quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Is this going to be a stand up fight or a bughunt?"

  41. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 2, Informative

    why do you think it takes so long to load?

  42. It's time to play... by Flower · · Score: 4, Funny
    FIND! THE! FALLACY!!!!!

    Today's example comes from /. regular Kenshin with the mighty, mighty low ID of 43036! Here he tries to compare a volunteer software bug hunt with yet another deeply flawed automotive analogy. So let's get started and bring in some contestants from our studio audience to play....

    FIND! THE! FALLACY!!!! <cue to commercial>

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    1. Re:It's time to play... by Quattro+Vezina · · Score: 1

      Ah, what the hell, I'll play...

      People don't die if their mail client is buggy.

      FALLACY! FOUND!!!!! <applause>

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    2. Re:It's time to play... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oooh, I found one, too! There is no reason why potentially flawed products have to be tested by Engineers!

  43. "mass migration of users " and "join us on IRC" by cliveholloway · · Score: 2, Funny

    Talk about preaching to the converted! And how is this going to work???

    Geek - "Get rid of crappy Outlook. Come join us in a mass migration to Thunderbird!"

    Marketing Droid - "Err, OK, what do I do?"

    Geek - "Just join us on IRC channel #mozmigration on smug.geek.com"

    Marketing Droid - "Err, yeah, right"

    Talk about Oxymoronic. Of course, I can't RTFA coz it's slashdotted, so ignore the above if I'm missing something.

    cLive ;-)

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    1. Re:"mass migration of users " and "join us on IRC" by grcumb · · Score: 1

      "Talk about preaching to the converted! And how is this going to work???"

      Well, unlike present company, us uber geek types just pretend to be clueless. Then we fix everything we break.

      8^)

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  44. Migration on OS X by mccalli · · Score: 1
    Love to. I'll just export all my contacts from OS X's Address Book into multiple vCard format, then import them into Thunderbird using...

    Err....what? It can't import vCards from files? Ah. Migration over then for this season.

    Bugzilla link here (they don't accept Slashdot as a referrer:
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79709

    And yes, that's me at the bottom of the report offering to help out if someone will talk me through the build process on OS X - I get nothing but errors trying to build Thunderbird.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  45. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by rduke15 · · Score: 1

    I've been hunting for a win32 email client that doesn't suck a bag of cocks. Anyone got any suggestions? I'd appreciate it a lot.

    I've tried Thunderbird and others, but am still staying with Eudora for now.

    A few months ago, I started to write some sort of review/blog, pointing out some aspects of the mailers I tried. Never finished it really, but in case you find it useful: here it is

  46. Re:Huh? by lelitsch · · Score: 1

    One word: searching. Searching in Outlook is so slow that it is completely useless if you have more than a few dozen emails and folders.

    It's not 10 times slower than Eudora or Thunderbird, it's orders of magnitudes slower.

  47. Bush hates opensource by vk2 · · Score: 0
    It seems George W Bush hates opensource projects and mozilla in particular. Just check his site with mozilla or firefox.

    Warning: Please save any important work with mozilla that you might have been working - The site may crash your browser.

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    1. Re:Bush hates opensource by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What? Works fine for me, on a pII with only 256mb ram, with flash, and java installed. maybe you're an idiot?

    2. Re:Bush hates opensource by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Works fine here.

    3. Re:Bush hates opensource by RichM · · Score: 1

      Have you got a direct link to the page that crashes Mozilla? I'm using Moz 1.7 (release version) and it's fine, it even displays very well - no overlapping text etc.

    4. Re:Bush hates opensource by vk2 · · Score: 1

      I guess I am. I accept that - After a clean install of 1.7.2 I was able to browse the site without any crashes. I take back my words. I guess dubya has no grudge against opensource or mozilla may be its just me.

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    5. Re:Bush hates opensource by Shivaji+Maharaj · · Score: 1

      Are you using flashblock from mozdev.org ? I guess thats is the one causing the problem. I had similar experience. I just don't browse the gwb site anymore.

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    6. Re:Bush hates opensource by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Works fine for me in konqueror and firfox. Using the latest in debian unstable..

  48. Please fix Outlook import by lelitsch · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd migrate to Thunderbird in a second and take a lot of colleagues with me if only it would finally not crash when trying to import nontrivial amounts of email from Outlook (not Outlook Express). Thunderbird is fine up to a few thousand messages, but anyting larger gets you a never ending onslaught of error messages.

  49. Tuesday is bad for me, can we reschedual? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't a weekend be better? More people not wasting time at work? Oh RIGHT we're geeks, we don't DO work. hah forgot. Sorry lost my mind for a second there.

  50. Better support for going to and fro would be nice by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just finished moving my mom to Thunderbird... from Mozilla mail. Some of the folders came from Kmail (standard unix mailbox format imported into Kmail from Outlook, it's a long story), and I used a CD to move them, meaning they had the read-only bit set without me realizing it (I forgot, sue me). Still, for reasons I cannot fathom, Mozilla Mail stopped displaying mail in about half the folders, even after clearing the read-only bit. The messages where there (I could see them in Thunderbird), they just didn't show up in Mozilla. I got everything working under Thunderbird, and tried copying over the Mail folder, no dice. Heck, on one of the folders I can see one message and nothing else. It's a real mess. At the momemt I've got her mail shortcut launching Thunderbird instead of Mozilla mail, but it really bugs me, since don't know if the mail is gonna stop working.

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  51. What about PMMail by najay · · Score: 1

    what about us old os/2 guys? how do i convert my funky format pmmail folders to thunderbird? I can't be the only person still running PMMail (abeit under xp now).

    still out in the cold ....
    najay

  52. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    One word: Lookout

    Brian J. Mitchell
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  53. No feature for newer Netscape importing by yet+another+coward · · Score: 1

    Importing with newer Netscape (and probably Mozilla) email clients involves manually copying files from one folder to another. It seems ridiculous.

  54. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 1
    Jesus, he reports that Thunderbird didn't work for him four times, and he gets modded flamebait? Somebody got up on the wrong side of their semen-encrusted bed this morning...

    All I can say is keep trying, Thunderbird truly is the bees knees as far as I'm concerned. Try updating whichever client you're using now to the latest version before doing an export/import.

    Another thing that's worked for me in previous migrations (I've tried most of the big mail clients in my day) is to, for example, go from OE to Mozilla then to Thunderbird. Or whatever route works for you.

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  55. How about a mozilla updater? by Zapdos · · Score: 1

    New version means a new download, new uninstall and new install. I wish that Mozilla could check for updates and download just the applicable files.

  56. Newsgroup Reverse Sort By Date by andyc_2k · · Score: 1

    AFAIK there is no way to sort news items by date in descending order AND group by thread. If you click the "message threads" column heading, the threads are sorted by date in ascending order. If you then click the "date" column heading, the messages are sorted by date in descending order but threading is lost. Not a bug but very annoying :(

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    1. Re:Newsgroup Reverse Sort By Date by stars_are_number_1 · · Score: 1

      Instead of clicking on the "date" column, click on "message threads" again.

  57. What about.... by FlutterVertigo(gmail · · Score: 1

    ...gmail? I have no inclination of going back to the standard email clients. Come to think of it, neither do many of my friends. Every few days, I see the special message "Invite 3 friends to Gmail" and I do. For some reason, people are selling these things on eBay...for something in the range of $1-$5.[1] Selling three licenses for $15 + all of the hassles doesn't seem worth getting someone you know connected.


    [1] That's a big tip for those yearning for a gmail account and don't want to wait until everyone else is on. Gmail seems to have taken the place of when I called the Internet "The world's biggest secret club." sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. But for a couple of bucks, I have several friends who aren't waiting for me to receive new invitations and have just hit the auctions. From what they have told me, impatience was getting to them. No shipping involved. Quick payment and an email invitation from the seller.

  58. P.S. by FlutterVertigo(gmail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As I write this, there are 653 gmail auctions underway. It looks like people have gotten bored selling one-offs so they're creating vanity ids & selling those; e.g., "BillAndHillaryClinton@gmail.com".

    n.b. I have nothing to gain from all of this, I'm just handing out information.

  59. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's Thunderbird, not Outlook.

  60. Re:I installed Thunderbird today... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well if you already have Office 2k3 then Outlook is the best win32 client. None of the old virus problems, adequate spam-filtering, nice new design, and zero learning for most people since it is what most of us use at work.

    Ok - now all the anti-Microsoft people who have never used Outlook 2k3 can bash me.

  61. the seamonkey users.. by roror · · Score: 1

    ..are better off. Those who are using both firefox and thunderbird could probably be better off using mozilla seamonkey suit. Reasons being,

    1. less memory usage. I have seen repeatedly mozilla seamonkey takes upto 6.2% of my 1GB ram, when mail, navigator and calendar are open. While I have seen firefox taking upto 6% by itself and thunderbird taking upto 4.2% by itself. These are after-a-while usage reports. I guess it's because of loading Gecko run time twice.

    2. With seamonkey you get automatic mailto handling in navigator and http link handling in email client.

    But, I understand it's easier to sell new names to new users than sell old name to new users.

    Also, there are those who use either mozilla mail client or the mozilla browser.

    Then there are others who argue that if thunderbird crashes their firefox instance won't crash and vice versa. This can happen with one single instance running. But, I guess we have come a long way from crashing mozilla. Atleast with mozilla 1.7 it's not a concern.

  62. Keep in mind... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Keep in mind that Thunderbird still has no option to display the email as it is received, without markup of any sort. It uses graphical quote markers (instead of the standard ">") changes *texttext* to *textext*, and grays out signatures and links it believes are part of signatures. This causes half the messages in a long email digest to be unreadable if someone in the middle uses the standard "-- " sig delimiter.

    Until there are options to turn off this text markup and show me the email as it was received in plain ascii, it isn't worth my time. (And no, clicking "view as source" every time doesn't count.)

    Pity, because otherwise it seems like a great email client. However it dropped the ball on the important "show the email" function and went straight to the bells and whistles that some of us don't want...

    1. Re:Keep in mind... by Teddy+Beartuzzi · · Score: 1

      View / Message Body as / Plain Text? Seems to work for me. No graphical quotes as you describe. Don't have any examples like you describe. Seems to be a sticky choice, so you only have to pick it once.

    2. Re:Keep in mind... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Doesn't seem to work for me, still get those blue bars instead of >s, and "asterisked" bits are bolded. I can live with that. But message composition seems to revert to HTML no matter what. Have to switch to plain text manually, *and* select a monospaced font. Combed through all the menus, though maybe there's something I missed.

      And the UI is so slow -- well, I'm back to Sylpheed Claws. It's not exactly pretty, but it generally seems to work just the way I want.

  63. If anyone from the Thunderbird team reads this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Please, please, pretty-please add a simple one-click way to killfile someone on usenet. That is the one and only feature that I miss from the Outlook Express usenet reader. I have yet to figure out a simple way to filter out all posts from an individual on usenet.

    Other than that, Thunderbird beats Outlook Express for usenet hands down! Thanks guys!!

  64. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Notice anything on there? Like the fact that they were bought out by MS to develop their Google-killer?

  65. Pine? by David+E.+Smith · · Score: 1
    Will I be able to automatically migrate from my old copy of Pine?

    I'm half serious on this, actually. At some point I went all "eye candy" and I do most of my work with pretty GUIs and such. And I still have to open pine in a terminal window and it looks weird.

  66. Why Not to Switch...yet by blahbooboo2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am a big fan of Mozilla Firebird, and I am starting to play with Thunderbird. HOWEVER, what makes me hesitate using Thunderbird is that once you go to Thunderbird and if you don't like it you can't go back to your old program. Why? Because there is no export ability of your messages and address book, nor do any other major programs import these two items from Thunderbird. Please correct me if I am wrong as I would love to give Thunderbird a serious try.

    1. Re:Why Not to Switch...yet by dtfinch · · Score: 2, Informative

      Thunderbird stores emails in mbox/mbx format, which is just a plain text file. Many email clients and even some mail servers use this format and converters exist as well. So although there's no export feature, and few if any clients have specific features for importing from Thunderbird, moving your email over shouldn't pose serious difficulty. I had to research this because we're trying out Thunderbird where I work.

    2. Re:Why Not to Switch...yet by blahbooboo2 · · Score: 1

      Thanks for the information. :) This doesn't sound easy nor a guaranteed abiliy to move off of Thunderbird cleanly (i.e. you shouldn't have to fuss so much). Also, what happens to the address book? This is one thing that opensource projects always ignore, even Firefox! If opensource really wants people to try their stuff, they should focus NOT just on importing, but also making it easy to move off the product in case you don't like it in a few months. For example, what happens if you don't like firefox, how do you move your new bookmarks back to IE?

    3. Re:Why Not to Switch...yet by JCholewa · · Score: 1

      > For example, what happens if you don't like firefox, how do you move your new bookmarks back to IE?

      Well, all applications *should* be responsible for importing from other formats. It *shouldn't* be the responsibility of anyone other than Microsoft to make an importer for MSIE from Netscape/Mozilla settings. But that's just my hippie cooperation freako side talking. ;)

      There are converters that can change between different formats. I've used bookmarkbridge, which synchronizes between Opera, Mozilla and MSIE. For the most part, it works, but I had to stop because MSIE had problems with certain entries. For example, some web pages had really long TITLE tags, and the bookmark entries in Opera had the full titles, and bb tried to convert them into file names, which sucked, because some of them had special characters (like slashes) that didn't work in file names.

      Also, bookmarklets (and if you don't know what these are, look them up, because they absolutely ROCK!) can get messed up in such conversions.

      Still, yeah, in the absence of an MSIE importer, a Mozilla exporter is probably really useful. Heck, I think that a built-in synchronizer would be a really brilliant idea (think of it -- uncertain users can just go back and forth between browsers, and any bookmark added to one browser will apply to the other!).

      It's too bad that I know no XUL. My experience is pretty firmly rooted in Qt. :/

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    4. Re:Why Not to Switch...yet by bedessen · · Score: 1

      So just set Tbird to not delete mail from the POP server after retrieving it. Then you can pop your mail with both Tbird and your regular client. If you don't like Tbird just stop using it and go back to your old client, you won't have lost anything.

  67. Re:Better support for going to and fro would be ni by ticktockticktock · · Score: 1

    Have you tried looking inside the Mail folder for the ".msf" file with the name of the affected mailbox (Example: the 'Inbox' folder has a mailbox file named Inbox and another file named 'Inbox.msf') then temporarily moving it out and restarting Mozilla Mail to see if it finally sees the message(s) ?

  68. I migrated ... by kbahey · · Score: 1

    I migrated to from Outlook Express to Thunderbird about two months ago.

    This was just after I migrated from MS IE to Firefox 0.9. The motive was the serious security issues with Microsoft products. I also installed OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 to run all FOSS applications.

    Thunderbird did a fine job migrating. Of course, I started by backing up my mail folders to the home server. Thunderbird imported all my old mail without a problem, except that it fudged a "From " header for every message, with funny dates, such as the year 1969, ...etc.

    It also migrated my account settings correctly and my address book. I was not concerned about the address book that much, since I back it up to Yahoo Address book anyway, and can retrieve it from there.

    Now my email is in mbox format, and I back it up to the server where I can grep in it to find stuff (although it has CR/LF format, and not just NL). My email is not hostage to Microsoft format anymore.

    Thunderbird functionality is OK, but my gripe is that it is bloated. Granted, my machine is a PII-300 128MB (I know, I know!), but still, I do not run Thunderbird all the time. Just when I need to check email, and when mutt on the server is not sufficient, and to periodically retrieve my POP mail and back it up.

  69. Re:Huh? by blahbooboo2 · · Score: 1

    Get the program Lookout for AMAZINGlY fast searching in Outlook. It's unbelievably fast...

    http://www.lookoutsoft.com/

  70. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you weren't so out of touch, you would realize that MS has bought Lookout for this very reason. Better luck next time! Jackass

  71. What's the fallacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In both situations, people are getting end-users to do the testing for them. Only it's not very likely for you to die a fiery death if Thunderbird crashes...unless it's a Ford Thunderbird :)

  72. Outlook to Thunderbird migration needs work by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I tried that on my laptop. Found I set Thunderbird to the default email client, and it needed Outlook as the default email client in order to migrate.

    The Outlook Calendar, Tasks, and Notes apparently did not migrate. I do not think that Thunderbird has support for those yet. Which leaves me stuck between using Thunderbird and Outlook.

    Also missing in Thunderbird is the virus vault feature of AVG Antivirus, which works with Outlook, but has no support for Thunderbird.

    Also missing was the Intergration or synching with my Cell Phone, PalmOS device, and iPaq, I fond Thunderbird was missing these as well.

    Also missing was integration with my Timex Datalink watch, no support for that either.

    Thunderbird was not able to migrate accounts I use in Hotmail with Outlook XP(2002). I heard there may be an external program for that to convert Hotmail into POP3, but from what I read of it, it was still in beta and not properly tested.

    GPG using Engimail or whatever it was called, did not work properly. I am not sure what went wrong, but I am unable to encrypt and decrypt messages. I cannot get GPG working with Outlook either, and I have to fall back to PGP. I have the latest version of GPG, but it says it cannot find my private keys, despite me loading them, and creating a new one just in case, it still reports they are missing. Fbog! I think this is more of a GPG problem than a Thunderbird one.

    Should I ever decide to read/write a MS-Exchange account, will Thunderbird ever support that?

    Thunderbird junk mail treats each account seperately. I use Spambayes with Outlook which learns from all the email accounts and can filter spam on account B by learning from account A.

    Also the email rules only work on one email account, I have to create duplicate rules for each email account (I have four POP3/SMTP accounts) to filter mail just right. Also I am confused as to what SMTP server it uses to send mail. I am not yet sure how to pick one, it seems to use the same SMTP server for each account, this may be seen as possible Spam by Spam filters, until I can figure it out.

    So I am stuck with Outlook until Thunderbird can properly address these issues.

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  73. What about us? by Enaku · · Score: 1, Interesting
    The mozillaZine article has left out which timezone they are reffering to by Tuesday (although I'd assume Pacific time or whatever Americans use). They also left out an aproximate time it will begin also, So, I'm here in Australia wondering when it's going to actually start.

    Does anyone have details or have a way to figure out the time for people outside of the US?

  74. Sharing mail between TB and Mozilla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I use the Seamonkey when I surf. How can I use Thunderbird to read this mail?

  75. shame on you! ...wheres mutt? by nazsco · · Score: 1

    all hail mutt!

  76. Migration from Mozilla by chihowa · · Score: 1

    Something I've noticed in trying to install on others' computers is that you can import mail, prefs, etc from many other clients... except Mozilla Mail. What's up with that?

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    1. Re:Migration from Mozilla by marcelix · · Score: 1

      Yes, what's up with that? I followed the 'cookbook' migration but I guess I messed up along the way, because when I decided to delete old Mozilla profile (250MB), Thunderbird fell apart. Of course, it's my fault, but it just pissed me off and I ditched Thunderbird for a later time... maybe when Mozilla mail migration comes up..

  77. Still doesn't support MS-TNEF! by borwells · · Score: 1

    Everyone in the office loves FireFox and Thunderbird. But, we absolutely cannot use Thunderbird. Most of our clients work in MS Exchange-Outlook environments and whenever they make an attachment it shows up on our end as a file named "Part 1.2".

    We can use Fentun to convert the file, usually, but that gets very old very quickly if you get several of them a day.

    I've been told this is a Microsoft RTF encoding problem, but they are not going to fix it. Until Mozilla gets this "bug" resolved we'll never convert.

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    1. Re:Still doesn't support MS-TNEF! by dtfinch · · Score: 2, Informative

      TNEF encoded emails won't even open in Outlook Express, because Microsoft wants you to have another incentive to buy Office. Anyone sending them should immediately stop for the sake of their own reputation. They probably send out emails all the time and wonder why they don't get replies, or why people tell them all they got was garbage. Sometimes all that gets through is a blank email, with the attachments stripped. It's very easy to configure Outlook to send standard emails, and to not do so looks unprofessional to anyone recieving the email who doesn't have Outlook.

      It's not a trivial "bug" to fix, as intended by Microsoft. It will at minimum require embedding a TNEF decoder and an RTF to HTML converter. But few of either exist that are considered mature or secure enough for such a widely used program like Mozilla, and are license compatible.

      The Mozilla team is known for trying to avoid anything they consider to be proprietary. Any requests falling under this category are classified as "tech evangelism".

      Patents are a bit of a concern. It's hard to tell what is and isn't patented nowadays, but with most standards comes the assurance that you are safe from patent claims by the submitter of the standard. Which may partly explain Mozilla's reluctance to support anything proprietary.

    2. Re:Still doesn't support MS-TNEF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I havent' seen a MS-TNEF mail in many years -- most modern exchange servers are setup not to send this crap.

      I think the only way it happens anymore is to use Word as an email editor and then do some wierd embedding. In every other case, you get a text message.

  78. Pegasus by rueger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well to start with it appears that there no way to move several years of Pegasus data into Thunderbird. In terms of features, it seems to have less than Pegasus, as well as lacking some things that I would really like - such as an integrated hot-syncable calendar and easy filter setup. (which I admit Eudora does pretty well).

    My guess is that Thunderbird will eventually approach the feature set that is available elsewhere, and I may move over to a Firefox/Thunderbird combo, but it'll be a while yet.

    1. Re:Pegasus by gdav · · Score: 2, Informative

      The best workaround I have found is to set up Mercury, point that at your Pegasus data, and temporarily add an extra Imap server to Thunderbird (which actually points at localhost running mercury).

      Then when you've finished moving things around, get rid of Mercury and the associated server entry in Thunderbird.

    2. Re:Pegasus by si618 · · Score: 1

      -=> easy filter setup

      Keh? Thunderbird's filtering is simple to setup, and extremely powerful. How could they make it any easier?

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    3. Re:Pegasus by Arleo · · Score: 1

      I forgot the complete procedure but the trick is to create Unix type mail folders in Pegasus and move all the emails to these folders. These folders can be copied to a location within your profile and Mozilla/Thundebird can open these folders right away.

  79. Necessity by Cokelee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In order for Thunderbird to be something it is going to have to do something very well that no other mail client does.

    I suggest full, complete, and amazing integration with GPG/PGP. In such a way that *every* user can make use of it. I'm talking "as a part of the intro wizard"-easy.

  80. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I like how you're comfortable with the occasional exploit, as if "being better than Outlook Express" were a redeeming quality.

  81. Use IMAP by T-Ranger · · Score: 1

    AKA: get a real mail server

  82. Re:Huh? by NanoGator · · Score: 1

    "I like how you're comfortable with the occasional exploit..."

    It's worth mentioning that Linux and Mozilla have occasional exploits as well.

    "... as if "being better than Outlook Express" were a redeeming quality."

    In a sense, it is. If anybody here actually used Outlook >2000 next to OE, they'd understand the drag OE's had on OL's reputation. Just like how a bunch of dumbasses here don't know the difference between Windows 98 and Windows 2000 and tee hee hoddle haw at every stale BSOD joke.

    So you'll pardon me if I don't take any real offense to your comment. If your opinion of any given software is based mostly on Slashdot stereotypes, then you're not in much of a position to take pokes at somebody who rises to its defense. ;)

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  83. Did they fix the calendar? by EvilStein · · Score: 1

    Users stick to Outlook because of the Outlook Calendar in many cases.
    "Sunbird" just sucks ass.

    Where are the plans to address this and create a triumphant calendar component?

    I've switched a few users over - but they all complain about how much better the Outlook calendar is. At least with Outlook they can send/receive invitations and add them to the calendar easier.

  84. how about migrating from mozilla to mozilla? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My Mozilla 1.5 got sick ("DNS" problems), and upgrading wouldn't fix it, so I did a new install (finally settled on Mozilla 1.7 after trying everything). I still don't have all my old mail moved over.

  85. Missing feature: who did I reply to and when? by SilentTristero · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't migrate my users from Outlook to Tbird because (among other things) Outlook can tell you who you replied or forwarded the email to and when; Tbird/IMAP can only say "replied". Duh yeah, good audit trail.

    Not quite ready for prime time business use yet.

    And of course you import the mail and leave behind the calendar (linked to the mail), the notes (linked to the mail), the diary (linked to the mail)... hmm, I don't think they'll go for it.

    I use it myself & love it, don't get me wrong. But for business use, it's not quite there yet.

    -- ST

  86. attachments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    when getting my mail from outlook 2 weeks ago, it didnt bring over any of my attachments. (slight piss off)

  87. I second this post by serutan · · Score: 1

    I too have had errors migrating from both Outlook and Outlook Express. I plan to be part of this bash.

    Also, when importing from Outlook it would be nice to be able to integrate, instead of keeping the Outlook Address Book and mail folders separate from the native T-Bird ones. I want migrate and dump Outlook. Why do I need two separate trees within Thunderbird?

  88. Re:Huh? by dolphinling · · Score: 1
    It's worth mentioning that Linux and Mozilla have occasional exploits as well.

    No it isn't. Linux isn't an email client, and one isn't occasional.

    "... as if "being better than Outlook Express" were a redeeming quality."
    In a sense, it is.

    Again, no it's not redeeming.

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  89. Re:Huh? by NanoGator · · Score: 1

    "Again, no it's not redeeming."

    I meant in the sense that it didn't earn that reputation to begin with. Differentiating the two makes a big difference when the percpetion is ill-defined.

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  90. My big problem: multiple accounts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's nice that it supports multiple accounts
    but my only problem is that the small dropdown tab to check all accounts is gone. So still using mozilla suite. Also hate how firefox sometimes goes to a default site. /yes too lazy to look if I can set that to something different. Would rather have it set to list out all sites instead of going to a keyword which is generally not the site i'm looking for. So the only real problem is the lack of a check all accounts

  91. webmail support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    until they add the native ability or the ability for some plugin to do webmail support like for hotmail and such, there's no point in many people migrating. asking them to get some hacked tool that acts like a local pop server or registering their webmail account so they can download is bullshit answer.

    i volunteered to write one or make the modifications but no one wanted to help me.

  92. MOD UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (This guy actually answers the question!)

  93. I'll try it but I still like OE setup better by Mustang+Matt · · Score: 1

    The one thing that OE does really well is lets you setup your accounts/identities in a very logical manner.

    Thunderbird was really close but not quite there last time I checked. I'll try again though.

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  94. No import from Mozilla Mail by tmk · · Score: 1

    I missed painfully an option to import mails and settings from Mozilla Mail. But there was no such option. You have to copy the data manually and change the config file with an text editor.

  95. Tell it it Mulberry by anser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use Firefox for browsing of course, and I keep checking and trying the various Mozilla.org mail/news client releases, but so far nothing touches Mulberry for ease of use and functionality with my IMAP mail stores.

  96. Re:Tell it TO Mulberry by anser · · Score: 1

    Oops, that was supposed to be tell it TO Mulberry :)

  97. Shared Address Book? by jasonwea · · Score: 1

    I've been doing this for some time now (IMAP, Squid, Thunderbird, SquirrelMail).

    Only one problem though. I am yet to work out a way to have my address book shared between Thunderbird and SquirrelMail. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Ideally pine could join in on the shared address book action too, but that's not overly unnecessary.

    1. Re:Shared Address Book? by Osty · · Score: 1

      Only one problem though. I am yet to work out a way to have my address book shared between Thunderbird and SquirrelMail. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Ideally pine could join in on the shared address book action too, but that's not overly unnecessary.

      Start at Freshmeat and search for what's available. Or, you could go all out and setup OpenLDAP on your internal network. I don't know if Thunderbird or SquirrelMail can access LDAP directories, but I'd be very surprised if they couldn't. I haven't done this myself, though I use the same setup as you minus SquirrelMail (I never access my personal email away from home, and if I'm not on my laptop with Thunderbird I can always ssh directly to the server and read it with mutt).