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On 02/03/2013 03:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> How do I get Thunderbird to act like software and not assume it knows |
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> better than I do? |
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Same way you get your wife to do what you want :) |
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The confusing part about thunderbird account creation is that there's |
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more than one way to create a new account, and they are not equivalent, |
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not by a country kilometer (yes, I consider that bug, or maybe a very |
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stupid feature). |
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F'rinstance, how do you create a new nntp account? IIRC you can't if |
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you're using tbird for the first time. I think the only way to do it |
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is *after* you've already set up a working email account, then click |
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on Edit::Account Settings and look all the way to the bottom of the |
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list box on the left to the button marked "Account Actions". |
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I'm no longer using the gentoo ebuild for thunderbird; instead I'm using |
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the beta-test builds from ftp.mozilla.org. (Hm, now that I stop to think |
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about why I do that, I realize that it's a really dumb thing to do because |
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I gave up filing thunderbird bug reports about two years ago because none |
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of my bugs ever got fixed.) |
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So, I dunno if I've helped you but you've convinced me to go back to using |
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thunderbird-stable. |
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Thanks Alan! |