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Re: Bah, Thunderbird Schmunderbird

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ Jim ] on Monday 10 July 2006 15:19 \__
> 
>> damn, was it a prediction???
>> 
>> Just had Thunderbird segfault on me. Restarted it, it's lost the wallet.
> 
> 
> /Always/ make complete backups of ~/.thunderbird, just in case (even a
> stack of backups, to avoid backup 'contamination'). I never had to restore
> from backup myself, but bear in mind that any customisation resides there
> in an easy-to-interpret (or add, or strip) form. Mozilla/Firefox are no
> exception. Anyhow, Thunderbird is rather stable for me in the sense that
> it can run for weeks without a restart (I use version 1.0.4, so there are
> a few memory leaks). This early segmentation fault might be a case of bad
> luck or a rotten extension that you installed (or a combination thereof,
> which lead to a fatal conflict).
> 
> 
>> Tried typing in the password to send an email off, thing kept coming back
>> for the password. Am I looking at a knackered Thunderbird here or what?
> 
> 
> I am assuming that you installed Enigmail. It's UI is not trivial, but
> than again, encryption takes a while to get a mental grip on (including
> terminology and technical jargon). Is your PGP daemon running? Have you
> tried re-installing the plug-in (extension)? Once you get it working (and
> the password saved for the remainder of the session), it's a breeze.
> 
> 
>> Anyway, I'm glad I had a fallback plan...
>> KNode/KMail until the thing's sorted out. Or I might just leave it. I
>> could get used to two seperate apps, I suppose...
> 
> 
> I'd advice against that. I still have KMail running off Ctrl+Alt+O
> (Thunderbird is Ctrl+Alt+0), but handling mail in several boxes can be
> perplexing, inconsistent and prone to issue. For starters, you need to BCC
> all outgoing mail to self and avoid popping mail off the stack, which
> still leaves you having to mark messages as read, twice (unless/until you
> set up benign filter rules).
> 
> Thunderbird is better than any mail client I have ever come acorss, owing
> to plugins. Even Outlook (pricey Office) is like a joke compared with
> fully-loaded Thunderbird. And that's just on the factor of funcationality;
> not stability and security aspects.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Roy
> 

yeah, thanks for that, I wouldn't have known where to look for the stuff to
backup (like the Windows version is any easier using defaults!). Gonna get
my head around it tonight and see what's what.
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