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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
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.
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?
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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.
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?
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).