Time for a rant... on Thunderbird

[jj2007]

A few days ago, Thunderbird asked me to get the latest fanciest update of the best mail client ever.

Today, I tried to send a little mail with some 4 MB of fotos. It hangs. Well, Google offers "About 789,000 results" for Thunderbird hangs, so that should not come by surprise, and it's nothing compared to the 5,400,000 hits for Thunderbird slow, but still...

So I remembered that my mail provider (the big famous Telecom Italia) offers webmail, too. And it worked, hooray!! They even found a way to reduce, while sending, the size of these stupid JPG files from 4 MB to a mere 200k, a factor of 20 - i.e. almost as good as Sergiu's famous 100:1 compressor

:green

[dedndave]

t-bird is a good program
maybe go back to an older version
i turn off updates in both firefox and t-bird
i only update them when i feel a need   :P
mainly - i want my add-ons to work

[hutch--]

Funny enough I have had no problems with Thunderbird, the number of recent updates have annoyed me but it is still working properly. I have not tried it with large attached images yet so it may be a different story.

[Bill Cravener]

"At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world."

That there is enough to turn me off on TB. :bg

[jj2007]

Bill, Hutch,

In general I am quite satisfied with TB, otherwise I wouldn't use it. And Outlook isn't an alternative.

What p*sses me off, though, is that such a huge project cannot handle the testing properly. It has indeed happened to me that I "released" software with a little bug, but 1. not so often and 2. I am one amateur, not "thousands of experienced developers"...

:tdown

[hutch--]

 :bg

I would rather have one persons PHUKUPS than thousands of the same.

[TmX]

Well... maybe you'd like to give Opera a try. It has a built-in email client.
And yeah, I'm feeling TB (6.0.2) to be a bit slow.