Re: Thunderbird- comments

de ms 05/28/2006 11:09

On Sun, 28 May 2006 21:25:09 +0100, bassbag wrote:

> From: bassbag <bassbag@bodybags.dragon.wales>
> Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
> Subject: Re: Thunderbird- comments
> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 21:25:09 +0100
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> References: <1ajx9faqxsqik.1xvcnhp4uzbz6$.dlg@40tude.net>
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> In article <1ajx9faqxsqik.1xvcnhp4uzbz6$.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

Thanks, but this relates to email. When in the past, I used TB also as a
mail client, I compacted. Haven't since I stopped getting much email
recently, but when I compacted, it had no effect on the newsgroup multiple
posts.

Mike Sa