Re: OffTopic - Mozilla Thunderbird is not bad

From: C# Learner (csharp_at_learner.here)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 00:53:15 +0100

J.Marsch wrote:

> [...]
> 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.

I've achieved this in Thunderbird by adding a filter that automatically
/watches/ any threads that I've contribute to.

> 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.

No such problem here.

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

That means that the message was posted _today_.

> 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.

View -> Threads -> Watched Threads with Unread

> 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?

They work fine here. Did you enter the query correctly?

> 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?

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