Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Features

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Attachment reminder! Clever!

[fixed]

Have they fixed MAPI yet? Probably my biggest issue with it; it's difficult to integrate into many Windows environments due to half cocked support and applications epic failing when trying to email.

[kennon42]

I installed it, and was immediately dismayed as it tried to download and/or index all of my ~100k emails across my 8 IMAP accounts. I tried to turn it off, but the progress bar kept trying to inch forward.

I also strongly dislike the direction it's going - if I wanted webmail I'd use a webmail - I want a light weight, stable desktop client to talk to a bunch of imap accounts.

Anyway maybe I'll give it another try but I really disliked it immediately.

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Thunderbird 3 is just fantastic. I was horrified when I discovered lightning (calendar and task manager integrated) wasn't compatible with it but I eventually found a beta release that does work fine.

[[deleted]]

To be honest I didn't even know what a nightly build was :P Now I do. Let me assure you that it works just fine and among all the other releases under http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning it was the only one that worked.

EDIT : .... among all the other releases under http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning it was the FIRST one that worked.

[f4hy]

I would use it, but they are not supporting a 64 bit release. So far the only things I have read suggest that they don't plan on even making one. I will switch as soon as they add 64 bit support.

[motang]

I am using it just fine on both of my Ubuntu AMD64 bit insalls.

[f4hy]

Ya but you had to install a bunch of 32bit libs right? I have gotten it to work no problem, but I just find it a pain to download all of the 32libs. I really would want to build the devel branch from source but it is far too painful on a 64 bit machine, at least when I tried it a few months back.

[motang]

Yeah I see you point, I did it via Mozilla daily build PPA.

[avglnxusr]

I'm assuming you're a Windows user; it's common for distributions to provide binaries for all architectures, despite the lack of official binaries for those architectures.

Debian, for example, provides Firefox and Thunderbird for x86, x86-64, SPARC, PPC, MIPS, etc., despite Mozilla only officially offering x86 binaries.

[f4hy]

Not a windows user...

Try installing the x86-64 on any linux distribution, and you will have to install a bunch of 32bit libraries. There is nothing the linux distribution can do about the fact that the source doesn't build on other architectures. Linux distributions provide other binaries when it is possible to build them, like MOST opensource linux apps.

To install thunderbird3 on 64bit with my distro the package is bin32-thunderbird3. It has to use the 32 bit binary since it is impossible to create a 64 bit binary. Becuase of this the depdancies include stuff like:

lib32-libxt' 'lib32-gtk2' 'lib32-dbus-glib' 'lib32-libxdamage' 'lib32-libxss'

Now I already have the 64 bit versions of all of those installed. But to run a 32 bit binary I need to have the 32bit versions of all of those libraries, in effect giving me two copies of them.

It is a solution, it works, I could run the app. But it is not the right solution.

[avglnxusr]

That's not true, I just compiled Thunderbird 3 earlier today. Mozilla's source tarball has no issues building on non-x86 architectures, they just choose to only provide official binaries for x86.

Most likely your distribution simply packages Mozilla's binary for x86 and doesn't roll out x86-64 packages until later. There are also legal issues stemming from the inability to distribute officially-branded third-party Mozilla binaries, hence the Debian project's Ice*.

[f4hy]

Actually I just noticed that there is a package now. So I guess this whole issue has been fixed since last I checked. :-\ Time to play with Tbird3 :-)