Re: Thunderbird 3 planning
David E. Ross
>
> 2. The reasons why people don't choose to use Thunderbird are varied,
> but two primary reasons appear to be: the lack of a built-in calendar
> integration (compared to Outlook for example), or a search experience
> that doesn't match that offered by competitors (gmail and Mail.app for
> example).
>
I use Thunderbird only for reading newsgroups. The reason why I don't
use Thunderbird for E-mail is that there are too many open bug reports
that affect my use. Before adding new features, make sure the existing
features work correctly.
--
David E. Ross
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Wayne Mery
> On 1/28/2008 3:24 PM, David Ascher wrote [in part]:
>> 2. The reasons why people don't choose to use Thunderbird are varied,
>> but two primary reasons appear to be: the lack of a built-in calendar
>> integration (compared to Outlook for example), or a search experience
>> that doesn't match that offered by competitors (gmail and Mail.app for
>> example).
>>
>
> I use Thunderbird only for reading newsgroups. The reason why I don't
> use Thunderbird for E-mail is that there are too many open bug reports
> that affect my use. Before adding new features, make sure the existing
> features work correctly.
From bugzilla, based oh your cc: and authorship, I don't see any
normal->blocker bugs that aren't news related that fit "existing
features [not] working correctly".
Which functional categories and major bugs are you concerned about that
you think affect a lot of people?
Serge Gautherie
> [I'd forgotten to include seamonkey on the list, so posting here as
> well, followup to thunderbird newsgroup. Apologies. --da]
(If that has not already been said (as I'm not reading m.d.a.tb))
Trying to coordinate/synchronize Thunderbird and SeaMonkey (work) is
always appreciated, on all the "duplicated" parts, on "Lightning"
integration for example...
David E. Ross
I never add myself to the CC: lists of bug reports. Instead, I rely on
a query on the bug numbers of those bugs I wish to track. I run that
query twice each week.
Among the non-enhancement bug reports that I'm tracking are the
following Thunderbird or (for older bug reports) Mozilla bugs that
affect mail (not just news): 215401, 273997, and 410833. Yes, none of
these are significant. But added to others, I'm more comfortable with a
very old version of Eudora as my E-mail client.
Additionally, unless I misunderstand it, I feel that the fix to bug
#116443 is deficient. If a virus slips through because it is so new
that is not yet addressed by the virus definitions used by my anti-virus
software, my inbox or other folder will be lost when I do update my
virus definitions to address it.
Then there are bugs #285715 and #363302. These are marked as
Resolved/Invalid. To users of PGP, however, these are quite valid.
Other E-mail clients handle these situations (and bug #116443, too). If
Thunderbird is to grow its user base, these should be reopened and fixed.
I believe there are other bugs that keep me from using Thunderbird as my
E-mail client. However, I don't choose to reread all 164 bug reports
that I'm tracking.
us...@domain.invalid
Win, also I have Firefox for WWW exploring and NVU to create some web
pages. Don't like IE because i have too many problems since i was using
Win95 OSR2 with built-in IE - sorry that was a mistake! In newer
versions of Windows there was more problems with this pragram. Also
Outlook ... hmmm ... I always have so much trouble to configure it -
with thunterbird i takes only 30-45 secs. -> and I'm getting my mail.
NO MORE MICROSOFT BUILT-IN-WINDOWS SOFTWARE!!! SUCK!!!