Re: Thunderbird- comments

de bassbag 05/28/2006 10:25

In article <1ajx9faqxsqik.1xvcnhp4uzbz6$.dlg@40tude.net>, ms@invalid.com
says...
> 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
>
>
>
Im not sure about newsposts but i know that if you dont compact your mail
folders regularly it can have unforseen problems.Could this be a possible
cause?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders
me