thunderbird 3b4 accounts problem

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 10:39:16 UTC 2009


On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM, psmith <psmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>> I've just installed TB3b4 (because 3b3 was driving me nuts). I use IMAP,
>>>> so on startup, it proceeded to download everything (although I'm pretty
>>>> sure 3b3 had already done that). Unfortunately, it appears to have
>>>> screwed things up. I have several accounts; they're all listed on the
>>>> left side, but I have just a single Inbox at the top that contains
>>>> everything from the Inbox of each account.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know the safest way to back out of this mess?
>>>>
>>>> And, is this the "correct" behaviour? If so, I'm not a fan. Is there
>>>> some way to start up TB without having it inflict its "Smart Folder"
>>>> functionality on me?
>>>
>>> Never mind. I found the (very tiny, unlabelled) arrows next to where it
>>> read "Smart Folders". Clicking those changes the view to "Unread
>>> Folders", "Recent Folders", etc. Eventually, I got it back to "All
>>> Folders". That was a bit disturbing, to say the least.
>>>
>>> Another thing I noticed is that the "reply", "delete", "junk" buttons
>>> have gone AWOL from the toolbar. That's easy enough to fix but couldn't
>>> it have updated without making the user go back in and add those again?
>>
>> See the release notes. Those buttons are now on the header panel of each
>> message.  You can put them back on the top toolbar. (I have.)  Also, get
>> the "compactheader" extension to control the space used by the message
>> header panel.
>
> unfortunately compactheader doesn't work correctly with 3b4 ;(

And, by the way, does TB 3b4 work fine with the IMAP protocol?

Paul




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