mozilla thunderbird (was Re: [CLUE-Talk] Only in Colorado and oh how true.)

[Nate Duehr]

Evan Widger wrote:

> if you're talking about the mozilla slimmed down email client, you might 
> mean thunderbird, as firebird is the browser.

Yeah, I keep mixing up the two names.  Both are pretty nice software, I 
like 'em, but moving things around in a user interface people have used 
for a long time is confusing for no good reason.  Bad programmer.  No 
donut.  User-hostile design, as a friend of mine would say... heck, 
*I'll* say it.  :-)

Also taking functionaliy completely out of the mailer and moving it to 
plugins (example: Offline mode) was frustrating in that I had to "fix" 
Thunderbird (by installing plugins) to do what the previous versions did 
already... seemed kinda silly to have to do that.

I love the online/offline sync support for IMAP that the 
"Netscape-based" clients have.  Sync, unplug from the network and find a 
nice comfy non-office chair somewhere and a cup of coffee and "do 
e-mail".  :-)

> for the option to send as html or not (took me a while to find, too) go 
> to account settings, composition & addresses, and look for the checkbox 
> at the top labled 'send email in html format'.

Sweeeet!  There it is!  Switched!  (Whoo hoo!)

> hth.

It did!  It did!

Thanks Evan!

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com