[gentoo-user] Re: Creating accounts in Thunderbird

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 02/03/2013 03:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> How do I get Thunderbird to act like software and not assume it knows
> better than I do?

Same way you get your wife to do what you want :)

The confusing part about thunderbird account creation is that there's
more than one way to create a new account, and they are not equivalent,
not by a country kilometer (yes, I consider that bug, or maybe a very
stupid feature).

F'rinstance, how do you create a new nntp account?  IIRC you can't if
you're using tbird for the first time.  I think the only way to do it
is *after* you've already set up a working email account, then click
on Edit::Account Settings and look all the way to the bottom of the
list box on the left to the button marked "Account Actions".

I'm no longer using the gentoo ebuild for thunderbird; instead I'm using
the beta-test builds from ftp.mozilla.org.  (Hm, now that I stop to think
about why I do that, I realize that it's a really dumb thing to do because
I gave up filing thunderbird bug reports about two years ago because none
of my bugs ever got fixed.)

So, I dunno if I've helped you but you've convinced me to go back to using
thunderbird-stable.

Thanks Alan!