Support for TB2

[Timo Pietilä]

Hello.

What happened:
I just had to uninstall TB3 because it didn't read one of the messages I
got from my linux-server. That's usual plain text message, nothing weird
in it. I had similar problems before for some other messages, but
usually they resolved by jumping back and forth several times from
message it didn't read to message it did. Today, no such luck.

So I uninstalled TB3 and re-installed TB2. Startup-times got smaller,
reading messages got fixed, no stupid "smart folders", offline settings
are correct ones etc.

Rant begins.
However apparently there is no support or development made for TB2 which
works just fine, but has at least one security hole (which is BTW fixed
in 2.0.0.24pre, and has been fixed for nearly, or is it over, a month now).

Abandoning TB2 in situation like this is like stopping making spare
parts for a car that is "old model", because there is new model that is
more shiny, but doesn't work, and forcing people to use this crappy
useless new product when their brakes need replacing.

I'm not going to upgrade to TB3 any day soon, so if there is another
security hole in TB2 then I will drop support for TB completely, and
tell reason for that to everyone in my organization. You *WILL* lose
around 100k potential users, probably more, if that ever happens.
Rant ends.

Timo Pietil�

[Robert Strong]

This is the Firefox list... you really should post this to the
Thunderbird list.

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[Timo Pietilä]

Robert Strong wrote:
> This is the Firefox list... you really should post this to the
> Thunderbird list.

Oops. Sorry, did intend to put it in there.

Timo Pietil�