Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

[Indi]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:22:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 12:56 on Monday 06 June 2011, Tanstaafl did
> opine thusly:
>
> > On 2011-06-06 6:34 AM, Indi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:27:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >> Believe it or not you are supposed to "make invisible" all the junk the
> > >> app  created.
> >
> > Dunno what that means... you have to tell it where to store Drafts,
> > Trash, Sent messages, etc - what is so surprising about that?
>
> It seems weird to me that a software package will add folders to the server
> solely because that is it's default then expect the *user* to clean up after
> *it* whether by hiding extra folders or deleting useless ones
>
> It's a minor gripe, to be sure, but a well-rounded release could have shown a
> dialog to the user and asking them to select the various folders to use. Or
> even if it finds "Trash" and expected to find "Junk" or "Deleted Items" it
> could use what is there. There are only so many common synonyms for a trash
> folder, it's not hard for code to look for them all and pick one.
>

It's not a minor gripe, it's a hugely stupid default.
It forces one to log into the IMAP server manually and restore order, 
as the configuration dialog gives no way of doing that. Then, making
sure tbird is not running, one must go into ~/.thunderbird/, find the 
files that specify IMAp and local folders, figure out the syntax, and 
edit accoringly. It's a ridiculous amount of hoops to force a user to 
jump through, downright user-hostile in fact. 

The fact they carried so many of their mistakes to v3 as if they 
were treasure not to be left behind has perhaps said the most 
about why I can't recommend oor support thunderbird.

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