[ubuntu-in] Problem with Thunderbird

[Manish]

ramnarayan.k at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am running Ubuntu 8.04 , with thunderbird 2.0.0.17.
>
> For the last year and a half my thunderbird as totally frustrated me -
> it downloads messages (from gmail) only intermittently - as a result my
> most recent message - is from about August 2007.
>   
I am also using Thunderbird, the same version and this mail is from 
Thunderbird itself. I agree that Thunderbird is sometimes too 
frustrating and even though  I have set it to fetch mails in every 3 
minutes, it doesnt fetch as and when required. I have two gmail accounts 
and two accounts of the mail server hosted at my web host.
> I send mails from Thunderbird , because it makes for better / easier
> referencing when off line.
>   
Thunderbird's User Interface is better than other mail clients available 
for Linux. This is my personal view.
> i will try and rectify 2 and 3 (and rectifying 2 should improve 1 as well)
> am thinking of migrating to evolution (even tried that - when on a slow
> connection and just disliked the evolution interface)
>
>   
I too dont like Evolution. I shifted from it to Thunderbird some months 
back. Evolution has lots of bugs, many of them are unfixed even though I 
reported it at launchpad. Some of them have been closed, since I was not 
able to furnish enough of information.
> but any other ideas
>   
Yeah! My personal thinking is that there is no *At Par* mail client 
which matches that with Outlook 2007 of Windows and Entourage of Mac. 
Now I would love to see a bloated choice of a mail client rather than a 
mail client tending to be lightweight but crashes now and then and not 
reliable.

P.S.: Am not a Windows and Mac fan! Am a Ubuntu user!

Regards,
Manish