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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 Released
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "MozillaZine has a report about new Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 release. Among other changes, this minor release includes fixes for the Linux command line URL parsing security flaw. Thunderbird 1.0.7 can be downloaded from the Thunderbird product page. 'Extremely Critical' Secunia advisory will be updated very soon."
You know, I just realised something... For years I've been using various e-mail clients...initially mainly OE, than Thunderbird (with some other in between, for shiorter periods of time). However, my email usage skyrocketed (literally) in last year, since I've been using Gmail. Sudennly...using mails started to be a joy for communication, somehow :/
So...what did I miss while using clients? Or perhaps...what do they miss?
One that hath name thou can not otter
Will it ever work?
Sigs are for the weak.
"On the same hardware, Firefox on a Windows 2000 install runs much, MUCH faster then it does on an Ubuntu Linux (or for that matter any Linux I've tried) install. What's all that about?"
GTK for one. I haven't looked through the source so I will let someone with actual knowlege handle the rest.
As for fonts, while most distros continue to struggle I notice that recent Redhat variants all have superior font support. In fact when I boot back into Windows one of the first things I notice is that their fonts look worse than Fedora. Every distro should make it a priority to support that quality.
I'm still using Thunderbird.
I have four different accounts (ISP, Gmail, general university and CS department email). It's much easier for me to set up POP3 access to each and check them all at the same time with one program.
All my mail is in the same place, and I can get at old email when I'm offline.
There is nothing more practical than a good abstract theory.
Better yet, on Windows they could allow T-Bird/Seamonkey/Mozilla to import email and settings from something other than Outlook/Outlook Express/ Eudora.
Until the email client can import from other previous versions (Say Seamonkey can import Mozilla & Tbird, and T-bird can import from other versions of itself) by using a widget, not twenty manual steps, the email client is a big no-no.
I know that the import widget exists, because it was included in one of the Mozilla builds - a long time ago. Unfortionatly, there was a decision to remove the import from Mozilla function. A very stupid one.
Care to provide some instructions so this issue will finally go away?
Does a Christian soccer team even need a goalkeeper?
Is there a way to combine multi-part messages in Thunderbird yet? (yes, insert porn joke here) That's the only reason I still run OE.
Why?
Because @gmail.com ist not my only mail-account. There are tons of other accounts I use since my first steps with Internet since 1997. Meanwhile some have a horrible webmail-client, but POP3 ist still in use.
Otherwise with all Incoming-Mail on gmail, spam would float my 2,6GBs. Yes, I look at the spam, cause of false-positives.
My Thunderbird is a container for all other adresses - fast, searchable, reliable.
nothing travels faster than light - except the mind
I was using TB in part because it was trivial to set it up so it would use the same "physical" local folders on a FAT32 partition shared between Kubuntu and XP. Since I realised I was only using Windows for music apps and the occasional game anymore, I actually switched to Kontact - but the same principles apply, and I'd rather use TB, Eudora, OE, Sylpheed or what have you than webmail.
My two primary email accounts are free and ISP-independent, so that's not a problem. And both have web interfaces, so I can still check them when I'm wherever. Best of both worlds, et cetera.
At home, though, it's always POP3/SMTP. I prefer having offline access to my email. It's convenient, and I'm just not comfortable having all these lengthy private conversations lying around "outside".
And I like having email and usenet (and RSS feeds, should I ever adopt that habit) together. I only follow a couple groups, never downloaded any binaries either, and don't really need a dedicated newsreader.
I also find it much easier to manage email in a program actually built for that very purpose. The UI beats "even" Gmail. And why would I put a website between myself and my communication?
And I don't want ads anywhere near my email, much less inside them the way most webmailers seem to enforce it.
So personally I just don't see the advantage of using webmail. It's nice to have a web interface available in "times of need", but it's been an emergency solution (well, ever since I learned how to configure an email client anyway).