On 23/01/2010 22:26, Michael McCracken wrote:
It might be useful for you guys to explain why it annoyed you so much.
It'd help avoid those annoyances in Letters.
I have used Thunderbird for a long time because I refuse to be
patronised by Mail.app, and there simply is no other reasonable alternative.
Thunderbird does a reasonable job, but it does annoy me.
I think the most annoying thing with TB is that it means well, but is
always a bit rough around the edges.
A prime example of what can go wrong with the Thunderbird (or even
Mozilla?) approach:
In Thunderbird 2 you could setup the default view for all your
mailboxes. Apparently, this was not completely obvious, did not work
correctly or whatever. Anyway, they decided to have a new approach in
Thunderbird 3, and every single mailbox now has it's own view associated
with it. And of course the default view is immensely verbose (why the
hell is there a "read" column with a star when read messages are also
bolded? And I have no idea what the "Thread" column is for in an
unthreaded view)
Imagine the fun you have with your account with several mailboxes that
becomes corrupted at some point, Thunderbird rebuilds the indexes and
puts you back in the default view.
And I just wish Thunderbird didn't have so many knobs and buttons to
change its behavior. For a person like me, just knowing that they're
there and I can change them, means that I will.
Jeroen.
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