[Kde-pim] Thunderbird experiences

[Markus Feilner]

Another thing I just noticed that makes TB annoyingly unusable for me - but 
perhaps I just did not find the right switch: 

You may have noticed that my mailing list account refers 
to "lists at feilner-it.net" whereas my normal account 
is "mfeilner at feilner-it.net" I keep these separate, dor several reasons.

However, in Kontact I can simply edit the "From" field while writing a mail - 
I even have another identity connected to that. But in Thunderbird I would 
need a complete account. Since I merge incoming mails for my different 
accounts into on big dump and sort them later on with a central, rather long 
sieve script, I prefer the way kontact handles this. This is not the only 
example where I need this: Yes I still have a catchall on some of my 
domains - I need this for quick testing or other stuff.

I can add new identities, but I can't find an obvious way to edit the "From" 
entry in Thunderbird. Correct? 

Another useful feature of kontact that's really better.


On 29.03.2012, 22:55, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Thomas Koch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for my new Laptop I installed Icedove (Thunderbird) 8 instead of
> > KMail. I wanted to try sth else after 4+ actually satisfactory years
> > with KMail.
> >
> > So maybe you like some experiences?
> >
> > - Thunderbird only downloads messages when I enter the folder. The
> > "Get Mail" method seems to work only on the INBOX folder. A method
> > to synchronize all folders is well hidden in the "offline" menu
> > item.
>
> That's just the default. You can change this in the folder properties.
> It's a bit annoying because I had to change it for almost all of my
> folders.
>
> Another thing I noticed today:
> - Thunderbird does not mark a message a replied if you move the message
> while you are writing the reply. Granted, it might not be a very common
> workflow but I actually did this today. When doing it I already wondered
> whether Thunderbird would handle this. In KMail this has worked forever.
>
> - I absolutely miss the 'm' key to quickly move messages in Thunderbird.
> I guess the 'j' key would also be nice to have, but I don't use it very
> often in KMail and I'm not really missing it in Thunderbird. But the 'm'
> key I really miss.
>
> - I absolutely hate the "there is a plugin for this" approach
> Thunderbird (and Firefox for that matter) takes.
>
> - OTOH, I have to say that searching works extremely well and fast in
> Thunderbird. Also, indexing my 1+ GB of mail in my work account didn't
> have any noticable negative effect on Thunderbird or even the system.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo



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