Daily Builds Thread 2007-01-09 Through 2007-01-15

[mscott]

Gena01, it'd be useful if you could try the nightly build tomorrow and report back if it's working for you.

[Paenglab]

that's a new feature we are experimenting with, we are appending part of the preview text to the subject in the message list pane.

Is it possible to set the preview text in italic? With this it's easyer to differentiate the subject and the body text. Best would be, this text has an ID for formating in the userChrome.css or in a theme.

[JoeS]

that's a new feature we are experimenting with, we are appending part of the preview text to the subject in the message list pane.

mscott, will that be an optional feature?

I hope this will be an optional feature, the long subject line in the message list pane makes it very hard to read.

Found these prefs, have not tried them yet.
Preview might be the one you want.
mail.biff.alert.show_preview
mail.biff.alert.show_sender
mail.biff.alert.show_subject
mail.biff.show_alert

[Klint]

The options can be changed in the "Options" dialog box too.

[Scanorama]

The options can be changed in the "Options" dialog box too.

Can you please outline the steps? I went through options but couldn't find anything

[Klint]

On my TB, it's located in Tools/Options/General/Show an alert-Customize (on the right)
==> Customize New Mail Alert

Does that help ?

[jmontana]

On my TB, it's located in Tools/Options/General/Show an alert-Customize (on the right)
==> Customize New Mail Alert

Does that help ?

Which build are you running? I don't see that on my build.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061128 Thunderbird/3.0a1 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 ID:2007011003

EDIT: Yes, I do. Nevermind.

[godavari]

I am running Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 on FC6 (x86_64) (version 2 beta 1 (20061206)) and the "Show Alert" does not popup when new mail arrived. However, i have configured to play a "wav" file and that part works. I am using the default theme. Also, using the same profile directory as Thunderbird 1.5.

[mkmelin]

godavari: try beta 2 when it comes out. The notifications missed b1 by a day for linux.

[Hobbsee]

godavari: try beta 2 when it comes out. The notifications missed b1 by a day for linux.

Do we have an ETA on beta 2 being released? The only one i've seen so far was early January - and it's mid january now...

[mscott]

Beta 2 freeze is early next week. Hopefully a week or so after that Hobbsee.

[NickJH]

Hi, I am new to 2.0 testing - I last did 0.9. I had to try it today because of a problem in 1.5 (which this seems to have fixed).
I have, however noticed a couple of problems:
1- Using rules to automatically forward e-mails, in the sent message you get [Fwd:] in the subject, but the rest of the line is blank. 1.5.0.9 put in the old subject. Also the message being forwarded (which is still being forwarded as an attachment) is called .eml with nothing before the ., and the file is empty.
2 - When messages were downloaded, the unread message counter disappeared until I clicked on the inbox when it reappeared. (I would have thought this was a known issue).

[Daniel D.]

JoeS, please work on your colors. It's a "senselsess" mix of colors in the fix-list. Look at Peter's posts (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=509515), but don't use pink. Thanks.

[JoeS]

JoeS, please work on your colors. It's a "senselsess" mix of colors in the fix-list. Look at Peter's posts (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=509515), but don't use pink. Thanks.

Hmmm...There are no colors specified in the checkins listing.
Whatever you see there is the "sense" that you have set in your "text,color,background and links prefs"

It seems perfectly readable to me, but if others agree with you, I'll set them as green.
BBS code is limited in choices, and so are my skills in using it.

[Gena01]

I installed the nightly a few days ago and been updating it. Currently I got version 2 beta 1 (20070114) and SSL seems to work ok. I am using POP3S and POP3 (2 accounts).

Just a few comments:
1. I had to play with the settings to get the buttons on the toolbar go become small. I am using an old profile so that could have been some weird quirk.
2. The accounts dialog needs a face lift? I got like 5 accounts setup of which I am actively using 2 and it looks rather weird and clunky.
3. I have disabled alerts for now (not a big fan), also disabling alerts doesn't disable the customize button.

I'll keep using nightlies and will provide more feedback once I've had some time to test it out and get a feel for the new builds.

Gena01