Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives 399
Tech Support writes "Thunderbird 1.5 is here! It's ready to download, so get going. Finally, Firefox 1.5 has its counterpart. New features included automatic updates, anti-phishing protection, inline spellchecking, saved search folders, podcasting, RSS improvements, the ability to delete attachments from messages, and a whole lot more."
hope they fixed some of the more glaring bugs (Score:3, Informative)
I also notice that when having "Full Headers" viewable, it's impossible to read the content of the email.
Maybe Outlook import has improved (Score:2, Informative)
I'll give it another shot with this version, as I would love to be able to get away from Outlook once and for all.
Re:Vertical Panes? (Score:5, Informative)
View > Layout > Vertical View
Re:Does it move sent mail into the appropriate fol (Score:3, Informative)
In Portage already? (Score:3, Informative)
If you prefer integration.... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Still no multiple SMTP (Score:2, Informative)
Re:But does it have... (Score:5, Informative)
If thunderbird had VCAL support and very basic calendaring, I'd switch because then I'd actually have a reason to use it over pine.
Re:Does it move sent mail into the appropriate fol (Score:4, Informative)
I use "leave messages on server" and "Don't Delete" functions for portability as well as being able to access the same mailbox(es) from multiple computers(ie. pulling my personal mail to my work computer and leaving it available for home computer, or pulling my gmail account email to the email client and keeping it available on webmail too).
I also backup my %root%/Documents and Settings/%username%/Application Data/Thunderbird folder to keep my email settings the same as they were pre-reformat if I'm doing a backup before I reinstall windows every ~3 months or so. You can do the same with Firefox, but I have run into some problems if I saved said profile folder from one version and tried to port it into a new version. The easy fix is to make sure you keep the installer from the last version of software, replace the profile folder, and upgrade with the newest installer.
Re:But does it have... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Does it have.... (Score:1, Informative)
It should be enough..
On 1.5 you can. (Score:3, Informative)
Click on the "Properties", Click on the "Outgoing Server", Click on "Add". There you can add the SMTP server you want.
Then to associate the server you want for a particular account. Go into that account's main Account Settings page and you'll see a dropdown listbox that will have the SMTP server you just added.
It's working a bit different from 1.0.7.
no changes since RC2 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:hope they fixed some of the more glaring bugs (Score:5, Informative)
I don't have Thunderbird, but I had problem with expanded headers so I simply did the following:
#msgHeaderView
{
max-height: 10em;
overflow: auto;
}
#expandedEnigmailBox
{
max-width: 80em;
}
I don't know if the DOM Inspector is available for Thunderbird, but every time I want to
tweak the suite a little, I actually edit it. No harder than editing a web page.
Re:Podcasting? In an email application?? (Score:3, Informative)
If there was functionality to podcast built into TB, I'd agree with you, though.
Inline spellchecking needs work (Score:4, Informative)
Try replying to a large email (100K+) -- Thunderbird will choke and your CPU usage will go through the roof, as Thunderbird inexplicably tries to spellcheck words you've not written in the previous email history. I've had Thunderbird choke for over 10 minutes on certain emails before I finally had to kill the process.
Hoping they fixed this one for 1.5-final.
Actually, not Seamonkey (Score:5, Informative)
Re:But does it have... (Score:1, Informative)
Not yet.
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning [mozilla.org]
Re:But does it have... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No, and in addition... (Score:5, Informative)
They're not blocked by the update, they're blocked by the creator of the extension in the configuration file.
If you want to try to manually bump your extensions (so that Thunderbird sees them as compatible), close Thunderbird, go to %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\{your_profile}\exte nsions, open the "extensions.rdf" file, bump all the "em:maxVersion" that are set at 1.0, 1.0+ or 1.0.something to "1.5+", save, close, restart thunderbird.
Beware though, if you have TRULY incompatible extensions (may happen, especially for big version changes), you may bork your UI completely. I'd suggest a full profile archiving before trying so that you can reset everything if issues arise.
Re:But does it have... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Doesn't run at all on my computer (Score:3, Informative)
To fix this, I uninstalled the new 1.5. Reinstall into a different folder. I created a new one called Thunderbird instead of 'Mozilla Thunderbird'. Then, delete the old directory and you are good to go.
Re:Doesn't run at all on my computer (Score:4, Informative)
Release Notes read
All Systems
* Prior to installing Thunderbird 1.5, please ensure that the directory you've chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Thunderbird installations.
Easy enough to miss.
Re:Does it move sent mail into the appropriate fol (Score:4, Informative)
Their largest account comes with 2GB's of space, IMAP/POP, Spam Assasin, Sieve, 250MB of file space and tonnes more other things. All for only 40bucks a year. They have other plans, so you can pick and choose what you need.
Thunderbird attachment pane bugs (Score:4, Informative)
No, apparently it's not. CSS patches have been tried, and for some reason it doesn't work right for the attachment pane. See the following bugs for details (copy link to a new tab, slashdot referrer is blocked):
If you can find a css tweak that works, please submit a patch.
Re:Don't... make... me... choose... (Score:2, Informative)
XULRunner to the rescue... (Score:5, Informative)
I believe this is indeed the replacement name for what used to be known as "GRE" (Gecko Runtime Environment) and can be used for *any* XUL-based application, not just stuff coming out of the Moz development team. What's not clear to me yet is exactly when this will be complete enough to be used by Firefox etc. - maybe for 2.0, maybe not.
WARNING if you are on Windows uninstall..... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:why, yes (Score:3, Informative)
As an aside, I would love to have a calendar app that also had a web based portion that worked well (my email is on an IMAP server w/Squirrelmail so I can access the same messages home or on the road... if only there was a WAP plugin). OK, enough on that tangent.
So if I could only have it one way, I don't know which I'd choose. Though I'll probably be giving SeaMonkey a try soon enough (trouble is, I finally convinced my wife to use Firefox for everything but her work email [OWA]).
WebMail, Yahoo, Hotmail Extensions Work (Score:2, Informative)
You'd lose that bet (Score:2, Informative)
Re:no changes since RC2 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:But does it have... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Does it move sent mail into the appropriate fol (Score:2, Informative)
I find the "leave messages on server" "solution" to be so irritating that I now just have messages on such servers forwarded to an account on my own IMAP server.
One thing that bugs me about Thunderbird... (Score:1, Informative)
To change it to the top:
Account Settings > Composition & Addressing > "Automatically quote the original message when replying" > "Start my reply above the quote"
Re:XULRunner to the rescue... (Score:1, Informative)
Could "Embedding and XUL App API and implementation unification" be the thing?