[xubuntu-users] thunderbird - setting up

[James Freer]

On Wed, 23 May 2012, Eberhard Roloff wrote:

> On 05/22/2012 11:43 PM, James Freer wrote:
>
>> 
>> I read through the posts thinking what was wrong as i used to use
>> Tbird. You're right on the following
>> 
>>> seems that TBird treats incoming and outgoing mail separately.
>> 
>> I had an aol account and three gmail accounts and set up each
>> individually. I never understood the default setting and didn't ever
>> get it to work properly. I've stopped using Tbird now as i found it so
>> slow - switched to Alpine which is so fast compared with any other
>> email client.
>> 
>> james
>> 
> Acutally, you are correct in regard to Tbirds mechanism of having outgoing 
> servers listed separately in the GUI.
>
> However, you can easily select each mailaccount's outgoing server within the 
> account information.
>
> So while it might be slow (I cannot comment on this one, since I do not find 
> it slow, nor do I know anything about Alpine), it is very easy to setup.
>
> Eberhard

The point was that i've never had anyone explain why there is this default 
setting. I didn't ever find a problem getting Tbird to work, it is easy to set 
up but for imap i found Tbird very slow.

Alpine is a text based email client and like Mutt very fast. However, i think 
it's only Alpine that is a fully compliant email client with imap. Alpine for 
setup is nice and easy first time and everything is in an rc file so it's only 
set up first time. A text based email client seems a daft old fashioned idea but 
once you've used it a while you don't look back. Give it a try one day!

james