Re: Thunderbird- comments

de ms 05/28/2006 10:57

On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:47:40 -0700, Jeff Needle wrote:

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> From: "Jeff Needle" <jeff.needle@cwnet.com>
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> Subject: Re: Thunderbird- comments
> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:47:40 -0700
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> "ms" <ms@invalid.com> wrote in message
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>>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.

Thanks, will look into it. In this ng. I've seen a comment that it is
loaded with extras, the term was "bloated" ???

Mike Sa.