KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 27/03/12 01:07, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26/03/12 23:56, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 24/03/12 00:47, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [pruned]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have been using Thunderbird since it was first known as a component
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> Netscape. I have never found it to be slow.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So I am wondering why you consider it to be "slow" - a term which, as
>>>>>>> mentioned here, appears to be a relative term :-) . Why do you think
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> is slow?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sure, I have a mail filter configured, and I get ~500 mails a day and
>>>>>> that filter have to parse them, while Thunderbird get the mails, apply
>>>>>> the filter, and move the messages to another folder, it doesn't
>>>>>> respond..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not sure what you are saying here - "it doesn't respond".
>>>>
>>>> Just that: it doesn't respond... it is "stuck".  I have 5 imap mail
>>>> accounts configured there, and 500 emails to filter on one of these
>>>> (~750 received) is enough to keep Thunderbird busy (as in: it will not
>>>> let me type the password for the other account) for quite some time,
>>>> until it finish filtering the mails (or just allows for *very slow*
>>>> typing, showing two characters very 10 seconds or so).
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am going to respond very quickly as I am about to fall out of my chair
>>> and
>>> fall asleep :-) .
>>>
>>> But why would you need to type in your password for each account? TB
>>> stores
>>> the password for each account and doesn't require you to type in it each
>>> time.
>>
>> two reasons:
>>
>> 1. Keep passwords fresh in my mind (for webmail access, or other things).
>> 2. Because I just don't like storing passwords, I feel safer without
>> storing it.
>
>
> But you can use a Master Password to be able to see what the passwords are
> so only you can look at them if you need to, say, alter any password.

still, I would lose "password freshness" in my memory.  Sometimes I'm
somewhere, I need to access webmail asap: no access to my machine, and
thus no access to password store.

>
>
>
>
>> The other thing - and here I have cut out a lot of what you wrote - is:
>> have
>> you looked in TB at-
>>
>> Edit>Preferences>Attachments
>>
>> and in the Advice column you, by clicking on the little pointing down
>> triangle, select to Delete attachments of particular types -eg, pdf, or
>> jpeg
>> and so on?
>> Because I don't want to delete the attachments! my customer (not me)
>> just want the attachment to be downloaded when you need it, and after
>> being downloaded for the first time, it should be stored on the local
>> message (ie: download the attachment is needed, but only the first
>> time).
>
>
> OK, then set - which I didn't have the time to mention last night - the
> Advice to ASK in which case you can either accept or reject the Attachment.

I would have to read more about it, but I believe it is not exactly
what I need.  I'll give it a try later.  I can't even see how to add
anything to that list anyway right now.

Ildefonso.