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- Alank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Couple quick notes for those that missed it (some of the above problems may be related):
Prior to installing Thunderbird 1.5, please ensure that the directory you've chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Thunderbird installations.
MacOS X: Do NOT run Thunderbird from the Disk Image! - doing this will cause an infinite restart loop (the symptom of which is a Thunderbird icon that bounces briefly in the Dock then disappears and reappears, bounces and disappears, over and over). To break Thunderbird out of this loop, open a Terminal and type "killall thunderbird-bin" and press enter. Install Thunderbird to a location you have write access to and try again. When installing on a multi-user limited access system, install it into a shared location as administrator, run it once and then all users should be able to access it.
Fedora: GNOME integration does not work properly with Fedora Core 3. Users of Fedora Core 3 will need to download and install linc-1.0.3-3.1.i386.rpm. After installing the RPM, perform the following command in the directory you installed Thunderbird into (you will need write permission):
touch .autoreg
The next time you start Thunderbird, GNOME integration should be functional.
All in all, I recommend reading the release notes.
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/1.5.html - mi2ca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love Thunderbird but this thing crashes continuously... Oh well.
- entropyiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oops, wrong place...
- phytonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox and Thunderbird are just other words for crap on Mac OS X.
Thunderbird is way slow on Mac OS X. Not really integrated into the system. Search email is like ages before spotlight. If you use Apple Mail you will see how fast it is compared to Thunderbird.
I have been using thunderbird for one or two month. It functions. I use it becasue I think it will be faster, and better integrated into the system and I am SO wrong. Abandoned it and now use Mail. - Alank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I submitted the original link listed in dwebtrons post. The official announcement came so quick on the heels of my post (in fact they are still updating the servers) I think it would be better if this thread succeeded. Linking to the main t-bird page will serve everybody better (bandwidth, etc).
Dugg. - Rotkiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1technicaly the stories aren't the same.
- mi2ca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bummer...
- entropyiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After backing up your mail files...
- mscnln, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can they *please* fix the font issues in thunderbird in OS X??
Many times text will cover a hyperlink, and when you try to highlight text, what's actually highlighted isn't what's under your mouse. - Nazgul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So Thunderbird 1.5 RC2 is now the final version.
- mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thunderbird can handle RSS feeds, ddarkfire - I just don't know how because I haven't tried it. Or at least it's supposed to be able to. You might find out how to set it up for RSS somewhere at Mozilla's forums, or just do a quick google search. Also, there might be an RSS firefox extension; I'm going to see if there is one now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes. Get freepops:
http://sf.net/projects/freepops
>Any way to get hotmail accounts working with TB1.5? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Torrent:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/197747 - AzzX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Browsing Digg in thunderbird via RSS.
Each digg comes up as a subject and you browse as if it was mail, awsome as it retains all the old posts.
Setup in Account Settings > News and Blogs.
Give it a go. - sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love Thunderbird. I use it with IMAP from multiple PCs.
My only headache is there's no way to maintain a single address book, which is a limitation of IMAP, not TB. I'm aware of the Sync Kolab extension but it seems very buggy without a lot of development and doesn't work with TB 1.5 yet. - ArrowApollo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah hem, presenting what you've all wanted.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/ThunderbirdTray/1097421396/1
I didn't make it, dont know who did, and some of you probably know about it. But withouth this TB is useless IMO. - trutwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to love the Sylpheed port for Windows as my favorite email client, but it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore so I switched to Thunderbird. Sylpheed-Win32 gets REALLY slow when dealing with large folders and often crashes but it by far has THE best threaded email support which is great for the number of mailing lists I'm on, but Thunderbird is a close second.
Here are the problems I have with Thunderbird as a former Sylpheed user:
1. Why can't I set a default view for all my IMAP folders? Every folder has to have the sort changed to the way I like it (by date DESC and Threaded view). It'd be nice to do this only once. Am I missing something?
2. Why can't I have Expand Threads applied automatically to new messages in a folder? This is a real boner as if I want to delete all messages in a new thread I first need to Expand Threads so all the reply messages will appear. Also, if you accidentally click the top bar and change the first order sort threading gets turned off completely. Arg. What I would love is a way to LOCK message sorting.
3. Why don't subscribed IMAP folders get checked for new messages by default?
Maintaining multiple installations is also a pain, I hope that MozBackup link is the ticket.
Despite my whining I think TB is a very good mail client. - sirdeets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Update: After doing a standard uninstall, and then reinstalling 1.5, I can launch the app. First time I've ever had to do that.
- error401, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And Enigmail works right away! I like the inline spell checking. Fantastic.
- smenkhare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dear telchine,
To get the proper English dictionary working for spell-checking I needed to manually install it. Once you've got to the dictionaries page (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html) clicking on the link to the required dictionary automatically installs it into firefox, not into thunderbird. If you save the link target (blah blah.xpi) somewhere then go to the 'extensions' item of the 'tools' menu in thunderbird you can install the dictionary into thunderbird. Now go back to the thunderbird spelling options and switch from American English to proper English... - mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"After doing a standard uninstall, and then reinstalling 1.5, I can launch the app. First time I've ever had to do that."
I've had to do that with Mozilla software before. Sometimes if you don't uninstall the previous version and delete it's settings, something will break in the new version. - mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Just says "A previous install did not complete correctly. Finishing Install.""
Reboot and it should work. No guarantees from me though. - Gigadafud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0now if they would only update Sunbird! and make the whole iCal/WebDAV crap a lot easier in the process also, then that would really kick ass.
- strcmp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Crashes each time I try to launch it under Tiger 10.4.4.
- battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"...Looks like it's quite popular. The server seems overloaded. I only got a 160KB/sec transfer rate :-(
posted by telchine (0) at 11:..."
When that happens, I just call the NOC to check on hub calls. Sometimes that fixes things in the routing. - Vankalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tried install over the top. Didn't work.
The I uninstalled and reinstalled and it didn't work.
Just says "A previous install did not complete correctly. Finishing Install."
Damn I've loved Mozzila apps since .2 of Fire...Whatever it was called. - EyeDye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ mcnasby
Is this what you're looking for?
Windows users can sync their address book with a Palm device by installing the Palm Sync extension for Thunderbird. Save the file locally and install it from the extensions dialog in Thunderbird. The extension will not show up in the list of extensions. You will have to restart Thunderbird after installing the extension before it will take effect.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/extensions/palmsync/1.5/palmsync.xpi - scepticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It did not work :-(
I could not even start this thing. Going back to 1.0.7 :-( - guhappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is definitely good news. I updated to 1.5 successfully and the MinimizeToTray extension for 1.5 works perfectly. Mozilla Rocks!
- stisev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The new version of Thunderbird has completely gayed my settings.
Details here:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/980008127731 - Quickstrike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've never updated Thunderbird before.. any worries about losing e-mails, spam config file, or address book?
- Vankalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"And yet when I install it, it does not launch."
Same problem, here - InvisibleMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0QuickStrike wrote: I've never updated Thunderbird before.. any worries about losing e-mails, spam config file, or address book?
I have never experiance any, and I mean any problems with Thunderbird before, and that includes updating the program - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, I installed it and now when I launch Thunderbird it shows up in my Processes list for a few seconds then disappears.
Great.
I love the Mozilla apps to death, but this was supposed to be the kind of stuff that didn't happen after 1.0 ... - electronicmaji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0notably it now supports podcasts
- lancebaldwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so how does it "support podcasts"? sure, you can get and read the rss feeds, but it won't automatically download them to your mp3 player. That is the only problem with t-bird.
- cavicster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have been using RC2 for weeks. Little did I know that I was going to be the stable release.
- AhronZombi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0firefox isnt slow in OS X anymore. if you completely remove it and its plist files then reinstall it and do a repair disk premisions it runs fast
- strangerzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope they have fixed the problems associated with compacting folders.
- bigcheez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0After my outlook crashed and I spent hours trying to fix, I found T-Bird and have been using it for 2 years now on Win2k and XP. Always stable for me - hate to hear that some are having problems with it. But I used to keep up with the dev forums and they are constantly improving it, just like firefox.
- jackol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Works perfectly on OS X 10.4.3
- mcnasby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If only someone would come up with an extension/plugin that supported ActiveSync. When I got my new PPC I was extremely upset to find that I would have to switch to Outlook to sync all of my info. I'm just surprised with all the business users out there who hate M$, this extension hasn't been made yet.
- telchine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like it's quite popular. The server seems overloaded. I only got a 160KB/sec transfer rate :-(
- telchine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone know how to get the inline dictionary thing to work. Despite the fact that I downloaded the British English version of Firefox, it says it's using a US English dictionary
However to be fair, it would be nice to get any kind of spelling dictionaly. It's highlighg words such as "hello" and "world" as errors :-( - miguelwmonteiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use Thunderbird to read my mail and to read blogs because of it's extension with RSS.
I added digg's RSS to it but when I'm reading and I want to digg an article, It opens Firefox so I can digg it, just because in Thunderbird it isn't logged in. Any solution for this?
Besides it's a great e-mail client. - jodybannon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you are using either Thunderbird or Firefox, one program to strongly recommend is MozBackup (http://www.mozbackup.org/).
This program allows you to backup and/or restore your profiles. I use this program whenever I am moving to a new computer, or if I need to back up my info 'just in case'. It allows you to back up everything: email, settings, folder, rules and is dead simple to use. - jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does this version have "Delete from server when deleted from Trash" instead of "when moved out of Inbox" yet?
- GideonX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone else notice that every account name in the folder tree is now in bold? When new mail comes in, you can't tell which account it's in if you have the tree minimized.
- snowsk8er77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i have been using tb for a while now, and i heard somone say that you can make it have tabs(like on firefox,opera,etc.)...but i havent been able to find out how, any one know??
- ZMerlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Running Windows XP: No problems whatsoever for me.
Thunderbird 1.whatever was installed to C:Program FilesMozilla Thunderbird, so I installed this one to C:Program FilesThunderbird without uninstalling the old one.
Worked a charm, it has all my mail and my settings in there, didn't need to reboot, didn't need to do anything really except click install. Even updated my shortcuts. Great installer. -
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