Re: OffTopic - Mozilla Thunderbird is not bad

From: J.Marsch (jeremy_at_ctcdeveloper.com)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 18:26:38 -0500

Maybe I'm missing something here (and that's why I'm posting -- I'm not
blasting, I'd really like an answer):

I tried Thunderbird. I really like the snappy performance.

I played with it for maybe 30 -40 minutes, and went back to OE (and I don't
particularly like OE). I think it's likely that I'm just missing
something, but the way to work around this really didn't seem very obvious
to me. Here are the main issues that I had with it

1. Often in OE, I like to use the "Show Replies to my messages" option.
The name is a little misleading, because what it really does is to show me
any threads that I have participated in, whether I have replies or not. I
couldn't find a feature in Tbird that does this.

2. If I select "Threaded View", it doesn't seem to put the newest messages
at the top (I have it open right now, as I type this in OE, and the "newest'
thread is dated 4/2/2003). If I click on the Date column in the list view,
it sorts by Date Descending, as I would expect, but then the threaded view
switches off, and I just have a "flat" list of messages. If I go to View |
Messages | Threaded, then the sort is all messed up again.

3. For some reason, a lot of the messages only display a time in the date
field

4. In OE, I like to sort all of the watched messages to the top --even the
ones that have had no new activity. I see a way to show watched threads
with new replies, but I didn't see an option for just viewing all of the
threads that I have watches on.

5. Filters don't seem to work. I tried setting up a filter that would put
a watch on any thread where a message was sent by me (trying to replicate
the feature I am looking for in #1). I got the filter set up, but it didn't
seem to do anything. I noticed that there is an "apply filters to this
folder" option in the menu, but it remained grayed out. Is this feature
broken?

I'm sure that most of these issues are probably because I didn't spend
enough time with it, but I don't have a lot of time to fiddle with it,
either. Any pointers, or is the reader not suited for the way that I want
to use it?

"Skc" <private@singnet.com.sg> wrote in message
news:egqtHRdMEHA.2628@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Just downloaded Thunderbird Newsgroup email/newsgroup reader. It's not
> bad - looks better and has more features than Outlook Express.
>
> Especially you can sort messages by many options. Also has option to see
> only Watched messages not read. And you can see how many replies there
> are to a thread and there's also themes and the list goes on..
>
> Cheers to the maker :-)

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