Thunderbird
Sy Bensky
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jun 2 17:20:02 2004
I found a YDL 3.0 RPM of Thunderbird 0.6 at:
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/RPMS/
I have been using Thunderbird on both YDL and RedHat and it is a great
no-nonsense full-featured email client.
Sy Bensky
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> 1. Re: Thunderbird package (was: Re: To Matthias Saou) (Jason Warm)
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> 3. Re: G3/300 and US Robotics Serial modem... (nathan)
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> 5. Re: Thunderbird package (Clinton MacDonald)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: Thunderbird package (was: Re: To Matthias Saou)
> From: "Jason Warm" <jwarm@miasys.com>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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> Thunderbird....kewl.....now has anyonegot an install package for Firefox
> or a newer build of Mozilla?
>
> Jason
>
> mascarasnake said:
>
>>Matthias,
>>
>>
>>>Well, if people could try out the thunderbird 0.6 build I just made and
>>>report any problems, I'd appreciate! Just "yum install thunderbird" if
>>>you're using the ayo.freshrpms.net repository or grab it manually from
>>>:
>>>
>>>http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/yellowdog/3.0/thunderbird/
>>>
>>>If anything seems wrong or missing from the build, please take a look
>>>at
>>>the spec file and the build log which are also available at the above
>>>location and send me any changes or fixes.
>>>
>>>Matthias
>>
>>Man, that was fast. Thanks. I'm grabbing it now.
>>
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>> A little bit
>> A little bit more
>>
>> -The Minutemen
>>
>>dontdrill@earthlink.net
>>mascarasnake@mac.com
>>On Jun 2, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Matthias Saou wrote
>>
>>>--
>>>Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/
>>>Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux kernel 2.6.6-1.383
>>>Load : 0.37 0.43 0.54
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:12:17 -0500
> From: Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: OT - Re: To Matthias Saou
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> Mallard-snake:
>
> mascarasnake wrote:
>
>>Using Thunderbird on OS X, have you noticed any quirks,
>>things suddenly not working?
>
>
> Things not working? I haven't noticed any more than the usual number of
> minor interface bugs (I am using Thunderbird version 0.6, by the way).
> If Thunderbird has ever crashed or stalled, I don't remember it
> happening. A cute feature of Thunderbird in Mac OS X 10.3.x is that the
> Dock icon will have a star if there is unread mail (this feature is
> slightly buggy -- the star does not always disappear after mail is read,
> you can clear it by checking mail manually).
>
>
>>I'd love an OS X client that gave good thread ;-) but
>>Thunderbird keeps stalling on me. Mail.app shows threads,
>>but clusters them in one group so I can't see the
>>hierarchy (for that I keep a mirror on evolution)
>
>
> Things I like about Thunderbird on Mac OS X:
>
> [1] works with the Yellow Dog mailing list servers!!!!!! (unlike Mail.app)
> [2] can set a preference always to check spelling before sending
> [3] can set a preference always to send mail as plain text
> [4] threads are "hierarchical"; a response to a response within a thread
> is indented further, making clear the relationships
> [5] good message filtering
> [6] what seems to be junk mail filter training (though I cannot figure
> out what to do with it)
> [7] *very* cross platform -- I know how to use it on Mac, Linux, and
> <spit> Windows
>
> Things I do not like about Thunderbird on Mac OS X:
>
> [1] no *inline* spell checking (my favorite crutch)
> [2] limited ability to customize the toolbar (only a few commands are
> available)
> [3] clumsy handling of wrapping of quoted text
> [4] no (obvious) signature feature
> [5] text editor wonkiness: lack of drag-and-drop, poor selection of
> whitespace on double-click, quirky navigation (option-arrow for
> previous/next word, command-arrow for beginning/end of line, etc.)
> [6] no redirect feature, only forwarding
>
> Overall, I like Thunderbird. I especially like that it is gleefully
> cross platform, but does not shy away from including a few Mac-only
> goodies. A thumbs-up from Clint!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
>