[newbie] Thunderbird access question

My MTA is Postfix, my mail client is Thunderbird. ML10.1. When I try to retrieve my messages I get a message stating Movemail cannot create a lock file, and I am supposed to chmod /var/spool directory mode 1777, which solves the problem until the following day. The security level of my system do

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 17:16, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:30 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to > > Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm > > sure there will be

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:30 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to > Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm > sure there will be a way in the command line, and going through Rute but in >

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:30 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to > Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm > sure there will be a way in the command line, and going through Rute but in >

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

N. B. Day wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:30 +1300, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure there will be a way in the command line, and going through Rute

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:30 +1300, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to > Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure > there will be a way in the command line, and going through Rute but in the

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

From: "Rosemary McGillicuddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > if the program hangs you type on in your konsole ps -ef | grep > > thunderbird You will see serveral processes. Kill those processes > > using kill -9 the xxx is the pid number that needs to be killed. > > > > hope that helps > > kevin >

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 14:36, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure there will be a way in the command l

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 14:36, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure there will be a way in the command l

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 14:36, Kevin Ferguson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to > > Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm > > sure there will be a way in the command line, and going

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure there will be a way in the command line, and going through Rute but in the meantime if anyone can help me shut it d

[newbie] Thunderbird problems

Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure there will be a way in the command line, and going through Rute but in the meantime if anyone can help me shut it down I'd be very glad thanks.

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird preview pane

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:53 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: > Now I have a Thunderbird question. > > In the "preview pane" of messages I don't get the whole message. If I > open the message separate (like, double-click it) then in the new window > I can scroll and see the whole message, but not in th

[newbie] Thunderbird preview pane

Now I have a Thunderbird question. When this happened this morning I remembered it was why I quit using TB last time and went back to Kontact: In the "preview pane" of messages I don't get the whole message. If I open the message separate (like, double-click it) then in the new window I c

[newbie] Thunderbird problem

I still have Thunderbird on my system, but when I tried to access new mail screen opened with dialog to set up an account. Somehow I lost the existing account I had been using for a few days and all folders and addresses. Is the problem with my ISP or in/on my 10.1 system? I'll try Evolution, T

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

> Andy, > you can install any software on your system using Mandrake > Control Center. The same dialog you used for changing the > resolution but this time it's on the Software Management . > But before you do read these following links: > > Here is a really good intro to installing software on Ma

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:39, Andy Yankovich wrote: Hi Stephen, Before the file installed a message said it hd bad signatures. I clicked install anyway. (1) should I have not gone ahead with installation? (2) what does "bad signatures" mean? Andy The "bad signature" error is

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:39, Andy Yankovich wrote: > Hi Stephen, > Before the file installed a message said it hd bad signatures. I > clicked install anyway. > (1) should I have not gone ahead with installation? > (2) what does "bad signatures" mean? > Andy You'll be right mate. Don't worry a

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:26 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:17, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > huge snip > > > > > 2) Install thundirbird > > > > > > urpmi mozilla-thunderbird > > >

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yanko

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > > > It s

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

Andy Yankovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > > Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system > > > to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. > > > Ther

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > It should already be in your system menus - under Internet => > Ema

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > > Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system > > > to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. >

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system > > to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. > There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mai

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:17, Andy Yankovich wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: > huge snip > > > > 2) Install thundirbird > > > > urpmi mozilla-thunderbird > > >k.i586.rpm> > snip > > > > Avi > > When

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: huge snip > > 2) Install thundirbird > > urpmi mozilla-thunderbird > k.i586.rpm> snip > > Avi When I typed step 2 as root I typed as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: > Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to > make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. > > Greed, Huh? > Andy There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mail, Netscape-Mail - and actually a slew

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

Andy Yankovich wrote: Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:51 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick > > gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I > > wonder if there is also an equally easy way to i

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:51 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: > Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave > me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if > there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The > more details supplied (i.e. step by ste

[newbie] Thunderbird mail client

Would someone please tell me how install Thunderbird. Derick gave me such great instructions on installing Opera, that I wonder if there is also an equally easy way to install Thunderbird. The more details supplied (i.e. step by step) would be very, very much appreciated. Maybe in a few months

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird flew away??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 22:06, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:26, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > This post confirms the newbie in me. > > > > I downloaded Thunderbird from the Mozilla site to use as my mail > > client. I configured it

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird flew away??

On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:26, Andy Yankovich wrote: > This post confirms the newbie in me. > > I downloaded Thunderbird from the Mozilla site to use as my mail > client. I configured it, used it, and it worked fine. I tried to > right click to save link to desktop as I did with Firefox, but >

[newbie] Thunderbird flew away??

This post confirms the newbie in me. I downloaded Thunderbird from the Mozilla site to use as my mail client. I configured it, used it, and it worked fine. I tried to right click to save link to desktop as I did with Firefox, but alas, it didn't work, so when I exited the Thunderbird screen it mus

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:04:10 +0800, frankieh wrote: > One ofthe complaints leveled against the mozilla suite, was feature > bloat, speed etc. > So they split up the apps.. moz mail became thunderbird, mozilla itself > became firefox, the calander app became sunbird and so on. > > When all the

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:04:10 +0800, frankieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miark wrote: > > > > What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and > > Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually > > replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks > > promoti

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

Miark wrote: What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks promoting competing products? Miark One ofthe complaints leveled against the mozilla suite, was feature

[newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks promoting competing products? Miark Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird RPM

Your mileage may vary, EE, but I've been downloading and using Mozilla's static binaries for both Thunderbird and Firefox without any problems since the very early releases. I don't know if you have everything in place that the binaries will expect to find, but you should be able to just dump t

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

Thanks to anyone who tried to help me figure it out. I'm just going to cry uncle here. Okay, so I gave in and decided to just filter for Microsoft in the headers of emails from OOzy. So far, so good, it seems. I haven't had anything else crashing me... We'll see how this works out. I can usuall

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carroll Grigsby wrote: | Have you observed this behavior with other OE-generated emails? I've only noticed it on the one e-mail, and that's out of probably 20,000 or so incoming messages, a good share of which had to be composed by OE. I didn't keep the

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

On Sunday 13 June 2004 01:11 am, Amy wrote: > Chuck MATTSEN wrote: >>> snip > >> 2) Convince OOzy to stop using Outlook Express, however there may be a > >> very good reason for the use of said evilness, like accessing email > >> from a computer one is not allowed to install things on. He seems

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

Chuck MATTSEN wrote: I suppose that means one of three things: A whole lot more than three, one would suppose. :-) 1) Suck it up, and deal with it. So what if Thunderbird closes on me once in a while, it runs perfectly fine when I restart it, and it takes but a second to restart it. True; TB s

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

Amy wrote: Well, once I found the view message source option, I poked my nose into the messages that had crashed me, and the ones that hadn't. All of the emails that I still had which crashed me said in the headers that they came from Outlook Express. All of the ones that worked fine for me said

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

Well, once I found the view message source option, I poked my nose into the messages that had crashed me, and the ones that hadn't. All of the emails that I still had which crashed me said in the headers that they came from Outlook Express. All of the ones that worked fine for me said they came

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

Amy wrote: To start, I'm running Thunderbird 0.6. I have all the mail from this list viewing threaded. I have found that when I open certain emails from the list, Thunderbird just up and closes itself. I've noticed the following things about all of the emails: They're always the start of a thre

[newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

Okay, so this was something that's been happening occasionally for the last few days or so... and I think I've found a pattern, but I'm not entirely sure. Maybe someone can give me an idea? To start, I'm running Thunderbird 0.6. I have all the mail from this list viewing threaded. I have found

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird 0.6: switching message formats

Magnus Johansson wrote: Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance. Not sure about how to change while editing, but hold down the Shift-key when pressing the Write or Reply-button. This is very cool. Beats the heck out of changing the whole account setting. Thanks! Marv -- Help in the resea

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird 0.6: switching message formats

Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, everyone. I recently upgraded to Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6, and am having a hard time finding an option to change a message I'm composing from plain text to HTML. I generally try to stick to plain text for everything, but there are times when an HTML message is more appro

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird 0.6: switching message formats

Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance. Not sure about how to change while editing, but hold down the Shift-key when pressing the Write or Reply-button. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com J

[newbie] Thunderbird 0.6: switching message formats

Hello, everyone. I recently upgraded to Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6, and am having a hard time finding an option to change a message I'm composing from plain text to HTML. I generally try to stick to plain text for everything, but there are times when an HTML message is more appropriate. If I remem

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:14:28 + Keith Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:42 pm, Floyd Hagen wrote: > > You really don't need an RPM for it. It's got its own installation script. > > Grab the tarball, and there's a README file in there with clear directions. > > If you wa

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird

On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:40 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 19:28, Keith Powell wrote: > > I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for > > it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version > > :-( It's the only one I can find. T

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird

On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:42 pm, Floyd Hagen wrote: > You really don't need an RPM for it. It's got its own installation script. > Grab the tarball, and there's a README file in there with clear directions. > If you want an icon or entry for it in your menu, you'll have to add it > yourself, but that

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and browser, was IMAP trouble (Evolution)

Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:27:41PM -0400, Guy Rouillier wrote: Todd Slater wrote: So at work I have an IMAP (Groupwise) account. I can open, read, and send with Mozilla, Thunderbird and Kmail. When I try to add the account with Sylpheed I get a segfault. I remember problems wi