Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating accounts in Thunderbird

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 08/02/2013 01:43, walt wrote:
> 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 :)

Oh no, not that, that's unpossible :-)

> 
> 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.

I thinkt he Thunderbird devs (the ones working on the wizard and account
creation) got into a frame of mind of "my work flow about new accounts
works just fine, so let's make it universal". I see this stupidity in
corproate software all the time, I never thought it would appear in
widespread FLOSS though.

Once you get past that barrier, it's actually a fine mail client. IMAP
works fast and fine, it doesn't have Exchange plugins that continually
crash the system (hello Evolution) and the indexer is a good feature
that works for me.

Now that's I've thought about it lots, I'm actually prepared to 100%
forgive Thunderbird for it's wizard just because of this one fact:

It has no akonadi and that concept does not exist in Thunderbird.

:-)


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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com