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- badassninja, on 11/10/2007, -2/+88Hey. Firefox... Your little sister is hot.
Firefox: Shut up! - subcomandante, on 10/29/2007, -1/+34I still dont have IMAP! D:
- Daniel591992, on 10/29/2007, -2/+21Wow. That's about as good as a tutorial can get. Great job by Lifehacker!
- inactive, on 11/04/2007, -0/+17For everybody complaining about Thunderbird's so-called lack of threaded email:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4791/thunderbir ... - djs71a, on 10/27/2007, -0/+16@subcomandante, I feel your pain, I still don't have IMAP either. And yes, I have logged out and back in again, a few times....
- snugglebear, on 11/04/2007, -0/+14It somewhat does.
Open thunderbird and in the top bar, to the left of subject, click the little tree button.
It does a sort of threaded email. Not exactly like gmail but similar - NewSc2, on 10/30/2007, -0/+12As much as I enjoy using Thunderbird for my work address, I really like GMail's organization of e-mail "conversations."
- webcrumb, on 11/04/2007, -0/+11Now add both Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar extensions and you have a fully-featured messaging and calendar app.
- stoanhart, on 11/10/2007, -0/+8I got it today. I will sell it to you for.... one MILLION dollars!
- bonjourmr, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8Thunderbird are go
- marvinmatthew, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7If you get a large number of e-mails, it's easier to use a desktop mail client (like Thunderbird). You can better manage your mail.
- Linh, on 10/27/2007, -0/+6or if you have multiple gmail accounts to keep track of.. or just multiple accounts period. It makes it easier to manage.
but searching is where google shines. it's why I started using gmail.. sooo much faster to search. - Lochie, on 10/27/2007, -1/+6Same with me.. it's rubbish, I've had gmail for yonks. A newly registered gmail apps account even has it! Argh!
- syclonix, on 10/30/2007, -2/+6Prism, possibly the dumbest/smartest thing Mozilla has come up with, is so much faster than TB!
http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/
I spent a couple hours tweaking Thunderbird w/ Gmail's new IMAP support--the results were marginally better than using plain old gmail. But then I gave prism a shot, turns out using gmail with prism beats the hell out of slow loading TB w/ IMAP support.
I know it sounds dumb, but give it a shot before discounting it. - RobotBuddha, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4I'm not sure if I'd call anything based on xul to be fast. At least when used on a non-windows platform. But it gets the job done. And as much as I prefer kde as a rule, thunderbird has worked like a champ with gmail's imap. Kmail's just tossing all kinds of odd failures into the mix when I tried to use it for that purpose. Teamed up with kcheckgmail, thunderbird + gmail's imap has been a really nice experience.
- toxicredm, on 11/10/2007, -0/+4RTFA, not all accounts have IMAP yet.
- merm, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4I'm in the same boat :(
- burke, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4Because Google started using it. That means we can use it with our Gmail accounts without putting a fricking mailserver between the two. It's kind of handy....
- Scruffydan, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4not all of my accounts have it yet... they will soon enough though
- 0KonTroL0, on 11/05/2007, -2/+6Awesome article. Go Lifehacker.
- snugglebear, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4I don't like the gmail interface. I like a desktop client, and since I run a desktop client on 3+ computers its much easier to use IMAP.
- cvayala, on 10/30/2007, -0/+3Because the web client does not allow me to sort by size.
Because the web interface does not sync with my Treo.
Because you I can look at an e-mail already downloaded to my client without needing a web connection.
Because it's nice to have options. - arcooke, on 10/27/2007, -2/+5If Thunderbird could somehow mimic gmail's conversation mode, I'd use it in a heartbeat. I'm so used to gmail now, using a client like Thunderbird just doesnt feel right. Anyone know if this is possible? And no, I don't like the threaded view.
- cwshea, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3I don't get it. I have two "mail.server.serverX.name" lines.
One is server1 and the other is server2.
Help? - wiifm69, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3RTFA
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3What are you talking about? Thunderbird comes with a threaded view. And if you want a more Gmail-like thread view, there's a hundred and one Gmail-imitating extensions out there you can install.
- open_sauce, on 11/09/2007, -0/+3I would advise against the draft location settings put forward in this article.
If you choose to store drafts on the gmail server and have Thunderbird set to save a draft of your message every 2 minutes and then write an email that takes 6 minutes, Thurderbird will have 3 draft copies of the email at various stages, of all which will be synced up to gmail. The results of this is when you look at the email in the sent folder or you look at responses to it (in the gmail interface), all the draft versions will get threaded into the conversation due to the identical subject line.
This had a lot of people on the gmail google groups discussions thinking that every draft version of their email had been sent along with the final version. But as explained above, this is just due to gmail threading the sent email and the draft versions together.
Hope that all makes sense. - jasonlich, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3Or...you could just goto Account Settings>Server Settings>Advanced and put "[Gmail]" in the server directory field. Every thing works and looks so much better.
- burke, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2In TBird? Go to add a new account, then pick IMAP instead of POP or Gmail.
If you actually meant Gmail, it's supposed to activate over the course of a week. starting.... yesterday I think. - johnsheehan, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2In Account Settings | Gmail | Copies & Folders you can uncheck "Place a copy in..." When you send a message gmail automatically puts it in your sent items, you don't need tb to do it for you.
- Tenoq, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2'cept it doesn't tell you how to make Thunderbird work quickly with IMAP. Not sure if it's Google or Thunderbird that is the problem - but at the moment it's so, SO slow for me that it's unusable. Moreover, half the time the changes I make in Thunderbird (ie, setting messages as read) don't ***** stick. It's driving me nuts.
And don't even mention trying to run filters on messages in your inbox. Anything more than 50 messages or so and it just times out half way through... sometimes it's worked, other times it's just completely ***** up and you need to restart Thunderbird to get any action. :p - burke, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Pretty much just that it's a local client. If you don't see the benefit immediately, it probably wouldn't make much of a difference to you.
- cdmarcus, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2It would be nice if Evolution let me change the spam and trash folders... but alas, no.
- rfunches, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2Doing this, you seem to lose access to the label folders (they are one level up from the [Gmail] tree).
- burke, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2I've had my account since 2004-08-30, and I got IMAP about 5 hours ago.
Wait, Abe Vigoda is still alive? - inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2and au revoir exchange
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -0/+2Look in Outlook's settings to get the server info (server type, address, user name, port, etc) and just set it up the same way in TB.
- doubleblack, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2To anyone waiting for "IMAP" to appear in their GMail account settings, just try connecting to it even without it. I have two, the one was immediately enabled with IMAP and the other one wasn't. It was another 48 hours later before I eventually got it on the other one, but it was enabled by default
- bbeahm, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Me neither. On either my personal address or the accounts that google is managing for my work domain. And I've been logging out and in like crazy.
- dagaz, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Make sure in your settings that your language is set to English (US). I had mine set to English (UK) (I'm Australian) but after reading that somewhere I changed it then logged out. When I logged back in I had IMAP.
- pgoetz, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1See my comment to Thorak above.
- K4P741NxKRUNCH, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1With it you can right click on a picture and select send to email recipient instead of having to go to gmail and then manually adding the attachments. That sells it for me.
- wooptoo, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Thanks, very good advice, it really works better.
But you can also use lifehacker's tutorial to "remap" "sent" to "sent mail" and "junk" to "spam" so it matches gmail's folders. - Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -0/+1Check again (log out and back in). I've had it since '04 (maybe early '05, but still) and it's there.
- wooptoo, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Thanks, very good advice, it really works better.
But you can also use lifehacker's tutorial to "remap" "sent" to "sent mail" and "junk" to "spam" so it matches gmail's folders. - thorak, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1
If you can't describe the benefit there must to be one. - pgoetz, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1A local client allows you to do things like download local copies of messages so that you can read them later off-line. It also allows you to consolidate all your email. For example, I have several email accounts all set up under Thunderbird. This makes it very easy to, for example, transfer messages from one email account folder to a completely different account, or to do searches across multiple mailboxes from different accounts -- that kind of thing. Finally, you can invoke locally created filters.
- ThrashAssassin, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1A solution is to prefix your labels with [Gmail]/
- Mysticum, on 10/28/2007, -2/+3This seems like a hell of a lot of work for no apparent reason. Why not use the web-based interface?
"Oooh, nono, Digg him down, Digg him down, gogo Mozilla appz, lololol, hurrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!" - murlidhar, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Lucky you. Tried all those stunts but looks like google doesn't like me. Damn i got my account in 2006.:( and this is what i get.
Unable to authenticate to IMAP server.
IMAP command failed: [ALERT] IMAP is not available for your account. (Failure) -
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