Thunderbird mentioned at Penny Arcade

scragz · Post by **scragz** » August 22nd, 2003, 12:43 pm

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2003-08-22

Tycho wrote:It's now 4:13 in the morning. I got home at about eleven o'clock and starting moving my mail over to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/">Thunderbird</a>, the Mozilla mail component that <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/">Scott</a> said Gary said had nice spam filtering. I imported my old mail into it for some reason, to accelerate my <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/08/17/roller.coaster.death.ap/index.html">hair loss</a> I think, but I've trained it like a faithful pup to ferret out spam and viruses from of a sample of fourteen thousand hand-flagged mails. I am at the point where coffee just makes my teeth vibrate.

penrou · Post by **penrou** » August 25th, 2003, 8:15 am

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2003-08-25

Tycho wrote:I mentioned on Friday that I've been trying out <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/">Thunderbird</a>, <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>'s standalone mail client, because I'd heard that it had quite the adaptive spam filter. It does have that, and it works as well as advertised - but I hate absolutely everything else about it. The software I'm using is version .2 or some shit, so my attempting to use it for serious daily tasks is like making a fetus the President of the United States. Mails constantly come in blank, or stripped of the time stamp. Sometimes, mails arrive from the future. Sometimes it follows its rules for deleting spam, and sometimes, hey! Here's a bunch of mail about dicks.

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » August 25th, 2003, 8:54 am

Sounds like the guy is seriously a bit daft.
How can he blame thunderbird for reciving mailspam to his mailadress as well as the senders timestamp being incorrect?

Post by **Jeff_pony** » August 25th, 2003, 9:03 am

Stefan wrote:Sounds like the guy is seriously a bit daft.
How can he blame thunderbird for reciving mailspam to his mailadress as well as the senders timestamp being incorrect?

Its hardly a well written piece, anyone who writes "some shit" really is not worth reading.....

ChuckSplatt · Post by **ChuckSplatt** » August 25th, 2003, 12:03 pm

Actually, I like Tycho's writing very much. He's more a comical writer than anything, but it is unfortunate he's experiencing such things. I haven't had any such problems with Thunderbird ...

scragz · Post by **scragz** » August 25th, 2003, 12:09 pm

From evangelism to devangelism.

Post by **shadytrees** » August 25th, 2003, 12:50 pm

Stop trying to kill the author, you guys. I wonder if anybody else has been experiencing some of the problems he has (blank mails, mail from the future, and no time stamp)? They all seem like problems that could actually occur.

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » August 25th, 2003, 1:39 pm

hao2lian wrote:Stop trying to kill the author, you guys. I wonder if anybody else has been experiencing some of the problems he has (blank mails, mail from the future, and no time stamp)? They all seem like problems that could actually occur.

Yeah, I always get "mail from the future" when someone has their clock set in the future.
The other 2 things you mention I havn't commented on.

bytemaster · Post by **bytemaster** » September 5th, 2003, 11:24 am

I have had all three things occur, but not recently.

My main problem was old save e-mails on Hotmail that I retrieved using HotPopper. They had a time stamp only, no date.

I have also had mails be retrieved that were in the past. Again, probably an issue only because Thunderbird seems to use the datetime stamp that the message was sent, where most other mail readers seem to use (by default) the datetime stamp that the message was recieved.

I think thunderbird needs to add its own datetime stamp on the recieved date, and allow you to use either/or to display and sort by.

Thunderbird mentioned at Penny Arcade

Thunderbird mentioned at Penny Arcade

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