On 08/02/2013 01:43, walt wrote: > On 02/03/2013 03:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> How do I get Thunderbird to act like software and not assume it knows >> better than I do? > > Same way you get your wife to do what you want :)
Oh no, not that, that's unpossible :-) > > The confusing part about thunderbird account creation is that there's > more than one way to create a new account, and they are not equivalent, > not by a country kilometer (yes, I consider that bug, or maybe a very > stupid feature). > > F'rinstance, how do you create a new nntp account? IIRC you can't if > you're using tbird for the first time. I think the only way to do it > is *after* you've already set up a working email account, then click > on Edit::Account Settings and look all the way to the bottom of the > list box on the left to the button marked "Account Actions". > > I'm no longer using the gentoo ebuild for thunderbird; instead I'm using > the beta-test builds from ftp.mozilla.org. (Hm, now that I stop to think > about why I do that, I realize that it's a really dumb thing to do because > I gave up filing thunderbird bug reports about two years ago because none > of my bugs ever got fixed.) > > So, I dunno if I've helped you but you've convinced me to go back to using > thunderbird-stable. I thinkt he Thunderbird devs (the ones working on the wizard and account creation) got into a frame of mind of "my work flow about new accounts works just fine, so let's make it universal". I see this stupidity in corproate software all the time, I never thought it would appear in widespread FLOSS though. Once you get past that barrier, it's actually a fine mail client. IMAP works fast and fine, it doesn't have Exchange plugins that continually crash the system (hello Evolution) and the indexer is a good feature that works for me. Now that's I've thought about it lots, I'm actually prepared to 100% forgive Thunderbird for it's wizard just because of this one fact: It has no akonadi and that concept does not exist in Thunderbird. :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
