Re: Thunderbird- comments

de Jeff Needle 05/28/2006 09:47

"ms" <ms@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:1ajx9faqxsqik.1xvcnhp4uzbz6$.dlg@40tude.net...
>I have been using the generic family since Netscape 3.1 days, through
> Roundabout/Phoenix/Pagasus (IIRC), that became Mozilla Thunderbird.
>
> Thunderbird has worked fine for me for several years. But several months
> ago, it started showing multiple headers for each post in a newsgroup.
> This
> same problem happened in W98SE, then on a different machine in W2K. Same
> problem with 3 versions of Thunderbird. Virus scans and malware scans show
> nothing.
>
> Recently, with help from Mike Dee and wwald, I did some steps to try to
> correct this problem. This included uninstall, then manually cleaning out
> every entry in W2K, then using RegSeeker to clean it out of the registry.
>
> Reboot, then a clean new install of TB 1.5. The first day was fine. With
> no
> changes on my hard drive, no reboot, the next day, TB had the problem
> again. So it developed the problem by itself.
>
> TB has a very nice GUI and newsgroup display IMO, like the old Netscape.
>
> But I've come to the conclusion that Thunderbird is not reliable, which
> for
> a program is for me a heavy comment to make.
>
> Advice on this?
>
> Mike Sa
>
>

Downloading and installing SeaMonkey will accomplish a lot, IMO. It uses
the same datafiles as TB, so there is no upgrade path. And the mail is very
stable, in my experience.

It's from the Mozilla people. You ought to give it a shot.