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Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by mahmud »

dpcan wrote: post #10

I'm in heaven. I just performed the same search I spent 10 minutes on a couple days ago to see if the new search would have worked better under those circumstances, and I was able to narrow it down and find the missing message in under 2 minutes. Fantastic work Thunderbird Team!!!!

If you're seeing a lot of email traffic, you need to move the indexing to an actual external search engine and write your own 'search' plugin; both Lucene and Sphinx would rape native TB search in performance. And the index can be shared across a team as well, say, in a sales force.

Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by pqs »

Luc wrote: post #15

This seems like a good time to mention my favourite add-on, Nostalgy (update for 3.0): http://alain.frisch.fr/soft_mozilla.html . It makes keyboard control easy. From the description: 'Save time and get back the productivity you were used to with mutt/pine/eudora!'.

Nostalgy is a very good extension. But since I can archive mail in TB3 using the key A, then I think that nostalgy is not that necessary, which means that TB3 is much better than TB2 :-)

Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by pqs »

est wrote: post #11

Looks like it tries to download every email in Gmail and index it locally. God. My maillist subscription just made my HDD explode. Didn't IMAP provide some sort of search function already?

You can easily configure how many months of email you want TB to download for you. Go to Account Settings.

Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by bvi »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #6

> The new attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send. I'm embarrassed to admit that this will help me considerably.

Gmail has had this for quite a while now.

Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by bvi »

mahmud wrote: post #40

Thunderbird, Firefox and Emacs. Seriously, the three pieces of software my life would be meaningless without. Greasemonkey and Lisp are the crack cocaine of software, that is, if crack allowed you to realize an innate higher potential in yourself. I have never scripted it myself, but I have paid someone else to do it and my thunderbird add-ons account for at least 20% of my income. If you're doing a lot of marketing…

Could you elaborate?

Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by phildawes »

julianz wrote: post #33
sounddust wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I downloaded it and tried it, and unfortunately it has the same two problems that I hate about version 2: 1) There is no option to say "reply using the same 'from' address that the mail was sent to." This means that you either have to set up an "identity" for every possible e-mail address you use, or you have to reveal your "main" identity to anyone who sends you an e-mail (and possibly confuse them in the process).…

> There is no option to say "reply using the same 'from' address that the mail was sent to." Huh? I've used Thunderbird 2 (on Windows) forever and I rely on this feature all the time, with multiple IMAP accounts and multiple email addresses for each of the accounts. It just works perfectly.

I suspect you might be mistaken.

Do you just mean you've configured multiple email addresses into thunderbird and get to pick which one to use, or have you really found out how to do "reply using the same 'from' address that the mail was sent to." in thunderbird?

(I use a different email address for each webapp I sign up to but obviously don't want to have to add each one to thunderbird, so this feature would be awesome)

Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by sounddust »

julianz wrote: post #33
sounddust wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I downloaded it and tried it, and unfortunately it has the same two problems that I hate about version 2: 1) There is no option to say "reply using the same 'from' address that the mail was sent to." This means that you either have to set up an "identity" for every possible e-mail address you use, or you have to reveal your "main" identity to anyone who sends you an e-mail (and possibly confuse them in the process).…

> There is no option to say "reply using the same 'from' address that the mail was sent to." Huh? I've used Thunderbird 2 (on Windows) forever and I rely on this feature all the time, with multiple IMAP accounts and multiple email addresses for each of the accounts. It just works perfectly.

It only works if you set up an "identity" for every possible e-mail address that you use.

If you use e-mail the way that phildawes and I do - that is, using a catch-all for your domain and giving a different e-mail address to each organization - then you would have to set up an "identity" for every e-mail address you've ever used in your life. For me, that number is in the hundreds and I don't have a list of all the ones I've used.

If I'm wrong, however, then please give more details on where to find this feature!

Re: Thunderbird 3 released

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Post by dhimes »

bvi wrote: post #45
RyanMcGreal wrote: post #6

> The new attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send. I'm embarrassed to admit that this will help me considerably.

Gmail has had this for quite a while now.

So has tbird, actually.
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