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On 08/02/2013 01:43, walt wrote: |
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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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Oh no, not that, that's unpossible :-) |
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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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I thinkt he Thunderbird devs (the ones working on the wizard and account |
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creation) got into a frame of mind of "my work flow about new accounts |
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works just fine, so let's make it universal". I see this stupidity in |
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corproate software all the time, I never thought it would appear in |
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widespread FLOSS though. |
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Once you get past that barrier, it's actually a fine mail client. IMAP |
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works fast and fine, it doesn't have Exchange plugins that continually |
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crash the system (hello Evolution) and the indexer is a good feature |
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that works for me. |
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Now that's I've thought about it lots, I'm actually prepared to 100% |
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forgive Thunderbird for it's wizard just because of this one fact: |
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It has no akonadi and that concept does not exist in Thunderbird. |
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:-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |