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Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

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Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

#102

Could they just make it not suck? Like the search system falls apart if you have more than a few thousand messages in a folder, not all that many by today's standards. The address book doesn't let you sort the addresses by most recently added, which is important if you reply to craigslist posts which use numeric forwarding addresses. So once you have more than a handful of them the are impossible to tell apart. It au…

> Like the search system falls apart if you have more than a few thousand messages in a folder

I'm in the inbox, I see an email with 'word' in the Subject in some of the most recent emails.

I type 'word' in the search box and TB finds some emails from the years ago.

It's even worse if it is 'word and some another word', in this case it doesn't even find anything.

It's like the developers... aren't dogfooding their own product?

Oh, yeah, we do now have TWO search boxes. Because that makes sense. And if you disable the topmost one, there is now 30px of wasted space you cannot reclaim. Because you definitely NEED that hamburger menu on the RIGHT side. On the desktop. On the 4k+ monitor. Riiight.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

#104
> Manual Folder Sorting

> Don’t like the order for your custom folders? Just click and drag to arrange them exactly how you want.

At last. Thank you.

I've been using an add on for that for a long time. It stopped working about one year ago because of some change in TB. I managed to survive but I really look forward to the update to 140.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

#106

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Can't even make a backup in the first place if they get deleted while you download them from gmail.

It bypassed Gmail's trash folder?

Yup. "Move to trash" is a gmail thing, Thunderbird "move" uses IMAP directly.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

#107
No thanks. We're still sticking with version 102, the last release before the ruinous "Supernova" redesign which nobody asked for, when it became apparent the project was being abused by "UX" kiddies looking to bloat their Github resumes. We're just thankful that some wiser developer had previously added the "allow-downgrade" option.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

#108
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See, you don't understand. Fixing the bug before reproducing it would violate the process .

Well, I do think the thundebird team should investigate and fix this. But it is almost impossible to fix a bug you can't reproduce and have no clue why it might be happening.

You know what else they could do? They could disable a feature that deletes large volumes of email the user doesn't intend to delete.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

#109
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> So please fellow developers, help spread the darkness to make the world more inclusive. He ought to practice what he preaches. Due to a combo of shitty eyes and dyslexia, I cannot read his site's dark theme without getting a headache.

I’m not sure what you’re asking for that person to fix, it’s just plain text and a plain dark background. You can also read the site in reader mode.

If you have astigmatism dark mode is hell. Should be called nausea mode.

Re: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

#110
post #58

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Well, I do think the thundebird team should investigate and fix this. But it is almost impossible to fix a bug you can't reproduce and have no clue why it might be happening.

You know what else they could do? They could disable a feature that deletes large volumes of email the user doesn't intend to delete.

Sometimes you want to delete a whole bunch of mails, don't you?
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