Thunderbird ain't perfect, either

[Walter Bright]

Roberto Mariottini wrote:
> In article <e0emae$mfq$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
> [...]
>> The bad:
>>
>> 1) No way to backup/restore the data. It's about as bad as O.E. here. 
>> C'mon, Tbird developers, how hard can this be? I want a simple way to 
>> back up EVERYTHING to a CD or another drive, and then restore it.
> 
> You simply zip and copy your profile folder. I'm doing this at every computer
> move from Netscape 6, and it works.

Ok, I wrote a .bat file to do that now. But it still should be on the 
menu, as in Quicken. Being about to schedule backups to happen 
automatically would be even better. Microsoft Fax has a nice feature, 
you can have it automatically save an extra copy of incoming faxes to a 
separate directory. It's a very thoughtful and convenient feature, too 
bad it's the only program I've ever seen that did something like that.


>> 2) Buggy import from O.E. messages - it sometimes inexplicably gets the 
>> dates all screwed up, resulting in messages having been received in year 
>> 2101, or year 1965.
> 
> I think it can read the "Received:" tag instead of the "Date:" tag, or some
> other "more reliable" tag.

It happened to about 12 messages out of 6000, not a big deal since I 
only need to do the import once.


>> 3) Search is essentially useless, still have to use X1.
> 
> I'm not an expert, but I've fount what I needed with the search too as is today.

I already have X1, and fortunately it specifically supports Tbird. When 
you've got 6000 messages, you start needing a better search engine. I 
don't like the toolbar search freebies as they seem to be sending back 
search info to the toolbar vendor company. Sorry, I'll have none of 
that, I'd rather pay a few bucks for X1.

> Maybe you'll find something better as an extension:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=thunderbird
> 
> Moreover, you can write your extension yourself, see "How to Write an Extension"
> here:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/extensions.html

I've got my hands full writing extensions to D <g>. But it's nice to 
know I can if I need to.

So far, Tbird seems good enough, and I won't be going back to O.E. Tbird 
    also seems to handle html and attachments better, but it lacks in 
the "crispness" of response department. The latter is often a fault of 
not having a good multithreaded design. It's a minor nit, though.