[xubuntu-users] thunderbird - setting up

[Ric Moore]

On 05/26/2012 05:47 PM, James Freer wrote:
> 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.

I think it does it's syncing business without asking you first. If you 
have a bunch of email, it'll take awhile. Ric

> 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!

It's truly a beautiful thing. No prancing pink Unicorn sigs with 
sparklies. I might have to go back to using Lynx. The Internet is sure 
going to hell with the graphics, ad-clicks and scripts. :) Ric



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