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Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by limeblack »

mcny wrote: post #6
erk__ wrote: post #4

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At the moment I am using Wanderlust, to help with the html I have set it up so I can open them in firefox.

I've banished myself to mobile. I am trying out k9-mail and open keychain on Android. They are both available on f-droid and seem to work well. Open keychain is so much easier to deal with than what I remember of enigmail on the desktop.

> I am trying out k9-mail

K9mail doesn't nest reply threads[1] which is must have feature for me. Otherwise yes k9mail is good.

[1] https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/763

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by dmix »

fulafel wrote: post #32
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #22

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This may or may not help, but ex. mutt lets you read HTML mail by running it through lynx/elinks/w3m [0], and I've had great success with this in a mostly-Outlook environment. I expect you could do the same thing with other clients. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt#Viewing_HTML

Mutt is terrible for imap on a laptop, it hangs and loses changes when the connection dies. Or has this been fixed?

I don't know anyone who uses Mutt directly for imap.

Every guide I've read recommends using imapsync and msmtp for sending.

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/#getting-e...

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by b5 »

craftyguy wrote: post #59
yepguy wrote: post #48

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I don't know if it's been fixed, but I recommend pointing mutt at an offline copy of your mail instead of directly at an IMAP server. Use isync or another program to sync your mail.

This doesn't really work if you have multiple systems you want to access your mail from. There's no way to keep those systems in sync with each other, some folks fake it with dropbox-like services, but that's honestly not much different than just pulling over imap each time you open the mta...

I use offlineimap[1] and it absolutely does work. It keeps everything on the IMAP server while giving me a local copy to work from. It's super simple to setup and use, and I'm really happy with it.

[1]: http://www.offlineimap.org/

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by reilly3000 »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #20

I'll have to give it a shot, but the last time I used thunderbird it was unusably slow at pretty much everything. Compacting my folders would help for a day or two, and then it'd basically become unresponsive for 30s or more with any user input. I hope they focus on performance in coming revisions.

I recently installed it and synced up 5 imap accounts, some with as many as 10 years of mail and its bloody fast. I recall trying it a few years back and was very frustrated that archiving a message seem to block the UI. That is no longer the case and now I’m very fast with it when using keyboard shortcuts.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by saratogacx »

lucb1e wrote: post #56
KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #28

I'm using the default mac client. Is thunderbird better?

I don't know the default OS X client so I can't go into detail, but I'd guess that one is better integrated with OS X. On the other hand, Thunderbird works cross-platform and allows you to choose any operating system without having to consider a new mail client, set it up and learn new ways. You could probably even copy over your data folder and resume working without any set-up (`scp -r ~/.thunderbird user@newpc:` w…

You're correct. You copy the profile folder and set the default profile startup to be the one you copied (I think this was in the profile.ini file) and it is if you never left. I this this between mac, linux, and windows machines and it functioned perfectly every time including add-ons, settings, filters, and themes.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by lucb1e »

saratogacx wrote: post #75
lucb1e wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know the default OS X client so I can't go into detail, but I'd guess that one is better integrated with OS X. On the other hand, Thunderbird works cross-platform and allows you to choose any operating system without having to consider a new mail client, set it up and learn new ways. You could probably even copy over your data folder and resume working without any set-up (`scp -r ~/.thunderbird user@newpc:` w…

You're correct. You copy the profile folder and set the default profile startup to be the one you copied (I think this was in the profile.ini file) and it is if you never left. I this this between mac, linux, and windows machines and it functioned perfectly every time including add-ons, settings, filters, and themes.

> set the default profile startup to be the one you copied (I think this was in the profile.ini file)

The command I posted would copy the parent folder, including profile.ini, but yeah it's pretty much the same thing.

> I this this between mac, linux, and windows machines and it functioned perfectly every time including add-ons, settings, filters, and themes.

Cool, that's good to know for sure!

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by JensRex »

u801e wrote: post #29
johannes1234321 wrote: post #13

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Opening HTML mail in a browser is risky due to all the scripting possibilities ... Thunderbird's HTML component allows no scripting and disables loading (remote) images (tracking when I hope the mail) how do you deal with that in such a setup? (Actually use evolution, but would like to switch to something smaller ...)

I have the "Message Body As" setting set to plain text. This either will display the text/plain part of the message or will render the HTML using plain text markers (* * for bold, / / for italics, _ _ for underscore). IME, it works out rather well for most HTML emails I receive.

In which email client? I regularly get email that is almost impossible to read, unless I load remote images.

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by omaranto »

zerr wrote: post #63
rajaindia333 wrote: post #39

It still feels like the 90s software.

Yes, and it would be great to keep it that way. But unfortunately, some say there are plans to adopt more "web tech", maybe Electron... I hope that day never comes.

Yes, let's hope this gecko and XUL based application never gets rewritten using web tech...

Re: Thunderbird 52.7.0 released

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Post by cutler »

lucb1e wrote: post #52
cutler wrote: post #18

I've been stuck 31.7 for years because it's the only version which honours font preferences in OS X. Theme and Font Size Changer was useless after version 41.1. Someone please tell they've fixed this nonsense.

I read that as "I've been stuck 31.7 years because it's the only ..." and did a triple-take on how old the software is and how long you've been using it. But no, Wikipedia lists it as "Initial release: July 28, 2003; 14 years ago". Still very old to be in such widespread use, though. From where I worked to my grandma to my in-laws to the Linux poweruser that I am, a very widespread range of people use it. I am not 10…

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Thunderbird... Thunderbird 31.7.0 was released on 12th May 2015.
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