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Re: Email programs that work.



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Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 05:39:56PM -0600, djhack wrote:
>> Thunderbird - Copies entire message at reply. Works fine on my box.
> 
> For all you thunderbird users...
> 
> 1) when will thunderbird finally gain "reply to list"?  I could have sworn
> I saw a patch go by not too long ago somewhere.
> 
> 2) if a message has a HTML part, and a text part, how do you stop
> thunderbird from attempting to render the html?  As far as I can tell,
> if there's an HTML part, it's the one that's going to get rendered.
> 
> Ah, here's the switch, in the 'V'iew menu.  WTF does "simple HTML" mean?

Less "fancy" formatting than "Original HTML".

> Can I cause it to show me the HTML source, without rendering it, or is the
> only way to view the actual message source?

View->"Message Source"

> 3) How do I tell thunderbird to stop with its idiotic representation of
> date/time, and always show the date?
> 
> 4) how can I cause thunderbird to automatically purge a set of mail folders
> according to a set of rules?  Or does that require one of those pesky
> additional programs?  What if the mail isn't local?
> 
> 5) Whyinhell doesn't it download mail headers in the background?  Enter a
> folder, wait with a spinning cursor.
> 
> Thunderbird has gotten better since the last time I looked at it.  But it's
> still not something I'd want to depend on.
> 


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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