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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.
Zealot: "Oh God, I had to install Quake 3 in Windoze for some lamer friend of mine! God, what a fucking mess! I put in the CD and it took about 3 minutes to copy everything, and then I had to reboot the fucking computer! Jesus Christ! What a retarded operating system!"
You forget the last part: and then all my other games stopped working, because it wrote DirectX version N over DirectX version (N+p) (p>0).
But what does this have to do with Thunderbird?
1.0.7 has been out for a few days now. A little bit late?
The 1.5 beta has inline spellchecking, some new RSS features and a nicer options UI.s es/1.5beta1.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/relea
Bagh. I still use Eudora Pro 3.0.5. What else could I possibly need from an email client?
I'm going to hazard that what you're seeing is a problem with your distribution, not Firefox itself. Firefox on Linux is quite capable of being pretty.
"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.
Until Pat updates -current (and /patches), I made a 1.0.7 pack using his slackbuild script:
r d/
http://rlworkman.net/linux/pkgs/mozilla-thunderbi
RW
Mozilla Suite. Enjoy.
For more information, click here.
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.
That's probably because Playboy is an official mirror of, among other things, Mozilla Thunderbird. Nifty, isn't it?
For more information, click here.
Your points have been disproven just about every time in every thread you've posted that copy-paste troll in. We need a new mod category, -1 Copy-Paste Troll.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
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?
Thunderbird has been a great proggy for my use, though one thing seems to bug me: just about every POP/IMAP client seems to support some form of external filtering in Linux, Thunderbird doesn't, what gives? If only I could run spamassassin and clamav...
I *could* go for fetchmail + local mta + procmail, but I'm so damn *lazy* and Thunderbird has a nice GUI...
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.
If you're glued to a desk with broadband access, gMail is great. If you travel (especially internationally), you need an email client.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
There's only 5 font types (Serif, Sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace) for any browser, period. One could use locally installed fonts using CSS by using the font-family property but then you're calling on local fonts which aren't going to be 100% consistent. 80% consistent maybe but that's good enough for most people.
Fonts aren't cheap which is why Linux has an extremely limited library of them. Bitsream was kind enough to donate their Vera family to Linux and I am extremely grateful for that. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on fonts for the Mac in years past and type face authors are greedy like the RIAA when it comes to fonts.
Actually a default installation of a Fedora flavor looks as good as an out of the box Mac. If your work requires custom fonts, then Linux won't be good enough
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
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 laugh every time I see this troll. Sadly though, this is the 10,000 foot view many have of the Linux and F/OSS community at large.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
I know it's not as useful as an outlook export function (microsoft probably has patents on their outlook mailstore format) but you can always use IMAP to migrate your email between the local storage of any mail clients you like.
Gmail doesn't allow IMAP yet (primary reason I don't use it much) but it looks like bgxmail offers a free 1 GB mailbox you could use - just setup the IMAP server in both outlook and thunderbird, and copy the emails to IMAP, then into the local folders. Hell, you could just leave your archive email in the IMAP store, and use either program to access them.
Alternatively, you could setup a local IMAP server such as courier-imap or any of the many alternatives and migrate the email that way.
Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
OfficeUpdate.Microsoft.Com updates Office, does it not?
FYI. the new free e-mail provided by.... AOL (boo). For aim accounts mail.aim.com gives you 2gigs of online space, and IMAP access. I'm not thrilled with their online interface, things like no serverside filtering, except for spam. But it is a nice free IMAP space to play with.
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).
A lot of people. I do and have always done. I'm sorry, but I don't want anyone messing with my mail. I'm OK with my ISP doing so, because it's its main job. Not the case of the free email services. Plus: something very important: most, if not all, free email services actually *don't* give any guarantee about the quality of service. Most serious ISPs do. Other reasons, to name a few: 1) I wouldn't be surprised if Google or Yahoo reserved the right to actually use the content of emails for corporate needs (such as building databases of what interests people, etc); 2) Privacy is not guaranteed; 3) Security is not guaranteed; 4) The fact that all e-mails are archived on the server freaks me out. I always configure my e-mail clients to immediately download the content of emails and delete them on the server. This way, I know they don't stay too long somewhere I don't want them to be, plus they are all archived on my own computer. I can't lose any of them; 5) TB (and others) has nice filtering functions, search functions, multiple accounts, etc.
I don't care much about having a fixed e-mail address "for life". Mind you, pretty much nothing is "for life". If I move out, I'll change addresses and probably phone numbers. That doesn't bother me a lot. Besides, there are e-mail redirection services if you really want to have a fixed e-mail address with the ability of actually changing e-mail accounts/providers. I like that a lot better. That's freedom.
If just that (but I stated a lot of other serious reasons above), free e-mail services don't satisfy the "geek factor" at all. People who have been in the field for a long time tend to see these as "e-mail solutions for the masses". Inferior solutions for people who don't know any better...
And last, I'm not comfortable at all with these giant corporations delivering e-mails for everyone. That's freaky. A lot too centralized for my taste.