[opensuse] Thunderbird 3 problems
Booted this morning to find I'd been update to T'Bird Version 3. OUCH! Most of my plugins and extensions disabled and no replacements! But the big problem is that I have two or more copies of everything in my inbox now. An T'bird seems to be downloading everything from my IMAP server onto my laptop. That includes all the folders I have on the IMAP server as well as the inbox. Oh look. I've just restarted after installing an add-in and now I've got THREE copies. Oh look, now I have an "low on disk space in /home" message. It must be T'bird downloading not only my inbox but all my archives. It wasn't set up like that before and I've checked the config. No, its not set to download all the messages. This is IMAP not POP. Oh look, I've just used LVM to add another 512M of space and its just gone and consumed that as well. Well, I do have a LOT of mail archived on the server; the whole idea was to keep it on the server, not on my laptop. WTF! HELP! HELP! Oh, and it freezes while indexing. -- Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/14/2009 03:45 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Booted this morning to find I'd been update to T'Bird Version 3.
OUCH!
Most of my plugins and extensions disabled and no replacements!
But the big problem is that I have two or more copies of everything in my inbox now. An T'bird seems to be downloading everything from my IMAP server onto my laptop. That includes all the folders I have on the IMAP server as well as the inbox.
Oh look. I've just restarted after installing an add-in and now I've got THREE copies.
Oh look, now I have an "low on disk space in /home" message. It must be T'bird downloading not only my inbox but all my archives.
It wasn't set up like that before and I've checked the config. No, its not set to download all the messages. This is IMAP not POP.
Oh look, I've just used LVM to add another 512M of space and its just gone and consumed that as well. Well, I do have a LOT of mail archived on the server; the whole idea was to keep it on the server, not on my laptop.
As I'm guess I'm responsible for your update some notes :-( Have you got any notification at first startup about the changed default behaviours in TB3? Hopefully you did. At least it's meant to be displayed for upgrades. From that page you should have been able to opt out from some of the new stuff. TB3 downloads everything from every account unless you stop it from doing so. It also defaults to indexing everything. In preferences->Advanced you are able to disable the indexer. You also should be able to disable the sync of the mails in the account settings. I cannot really speak for missing addon compatibility but hope that this situation changes soon. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Wolfgang Rosenauer said the following on 12/14/2009 10:11 AM:
As I'm guess I'm responsible for your update some notes :-(
Have you got any notification at first startup about the changed default behaviours in TB3? Hopefully you did. At least it's meant to be displayed for upgrades. From that page you should have been able to opt out from some of the new stuff.
Yes, I saw that. There were FOUR tabs. TWO of them were those. TWO? Yes. I opted out of everything.
TB3 downloads everything from every account unless you stop it from doing so. It also defaults to indexing everything. In preferences->Advanced you are able to disable the indexer.
I thought I have that set. Yes, I've just been though, checked "OFF" those boxes on ALL my accounts and restarted. Its still downloading. And yes, occasionally I see it flash a message saying its indexing. So its not taken any notice of my explicitly disabling those. OUCH!
You also should be able to disable the sync of the mails in the account settings.
Yes, I had that, it was the whole point of IMAP !!! And yes, I've checked the config over and over.
I cannot really speak for missing addon compatibility but hope that this situation changes soon.
No doubt. It takes time for the add-ons & extensions to catch up :-) My greatest concern is purging of deletes. OBTW: "Reply to list" is there :-) Good! -- Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. --Timothy Jones -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/14/2009 09:11 AM, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Booted this morning to find I'd been update to T'Bird Version 3.
OUCH!
Most of my plugins and extensions disabled and no replacements!
I too... The bad part about it is that 99% of all the useful plugins/themes/extensions are 3rd party packages developed by individuals who may not even be maintaining them anymore. So if the original developer has moved beyond his interest in putting out the plugin/theme or extension -- there is a good chance we will never get those capabilities back... Hopefully mozilla with all of its 'download statistic gathering' will either adopt and update the popular plugins for tbird 3 or at least encourage the developers to update.. We shall see. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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