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Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)



Hello Stephen.

Stephen, 07.02.2007 03:45:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:43:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
> wrote:
>> Michael Pobega, 06.02.2007 22:35:
>>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
>>> Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest to me a better mail client 
>>> to use for mailing list *and* personal email on the same account?
>> You don???t need another client since Thunderbird/Icedove has an
>> extension[0] which enables you to reply to list only. I???m using it for a
>> long time now. Don???t worry about the patch mentioned on the site, it???s
>> already in Debian???s Thunderbird/Icedove package[1].
> 
> Speaking of which, I noticed on Bugzilla last week, that someone had made the
> 'reply to list extension' for T-Bird that doesn't require the use of other
> extensions <ie> Meneghy  (sp?).

Since I had Enigmail installed anyway, I had all I need for using this extension.

> About time. The old extension of which you speak, required other extensions
> to be installed in order to work. 
> <http://cweiske.de/misc_extensions.htm#replyToList>

Sounds not that promising:

> Please keep in mind that this whole thing is a hack - it uses some timeouts
> to change the address, and so it takes 1.5 seconds after the reply window is
> opened until the address is changed and the cursor/focus is back to the text
> editor.

I prefer my variant without additional hacks.

> The only thing I use Thunderbird for these days is reading RSS feeds, which
> it's quite good at.

I do that within Opera. If it just would be able to organize feeds into
subdirectories, it would be perfect.


Regards, Mathias

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