Thunderbird Beta 2 Release Candidate Builds Now Available

[mscott]

Hey Everyone,

We have en-US candidate builds available for beta 2:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... dates/rc1/

If you've got some time, it would be great if you could try them out. Barring any disasters, these bits will become beta 2 sometime next week!

Thanks,

-Team Thunderbird

[couldabeen]

I am going to assume the '2.0b2' I got updated to from the 1.8 nightly ftp server is the same as, or similar to, the rc1 version you point to above.

[NickJH]

I have decided to try newsgroups again in Tb as an alternative to my current reader and I have found a problem. Each time I open TB, the NG's I subscribe to come up with an unread message count even though they have all been read. If I then click on the NG to select it, the count immediately disappears. Then, when TB next checks for new posts, the unread counter again shows something - either a different number if there are new posts, or the same number as before if there are no new posts. Clicking on the NG then shows the correct number of unread posts.

[couldabeen]

Nick, your topic will probably get a lot more attention if you post it as a 'new' topic in the Thunderbird Support Forum.

[redhat71]

any way to disable "Folder Summary Popups" now?

[NickJH]

couldabeen, this is a TB 2.0b2 rc1 issue I have found after I downloaded TB from the above link. I thought build issues went in the builds forum. I could open a new topic, but it appears these sticky topics are used to gather comments on specific builds. Please can you confirm the correct place to post.

[modellmakt]

will beta 2 also only be en-US or will there be localized versions as well?

[mscott]

localizations that are ready will go out as part of beta 2, some of the builds are showing up here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/t ... idates/rc1

[Old Seamaiden]

Well, the Buttons! extension doesn't work with Thunderbird 2 now. It worked for Alpha 1 but not either beta. Here's a screenshot of what it does in Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2.

[Old Seamaiden]

It seems there is an update available for this problem and the problem with Buttons! on the 3.0 trunk builds. Hopefully, it will fix these issues.

Buttons! 0.5.3.1 for Thunderbird 2.0b1 and later trunk builds

[aferrante]

I have tested it for a few days and I can say that it is generally great. IMHO, the memory leakage problem makes it almost unusable for everybody who wants to keep it always open. I am using TB under Linux (FC6) and I have 6 POP and 3 IMAP accounts configured. Yesterday, after running for 5 hours, TB was filling up 700MB of RAM: definitely too much for a mail client!!!! I think this problem (that is also present in TB 1.5.09) is quite important and should be addressed before releasing the final version of TB2.

Regards,
Alberto

Hey Everyone,

We have en-US candidate builds available for beta 2:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... dates/rc1/

If you've got some time, it would be great if you could try them out. Barring any disasters, these bits will become beta 2 sometime next week!

[NickJH]

Applying a filter with actions:
1 - Set Junk Status to Junk
2 - Move message to .......
moves the message but does not set the junk flag automatically on receipt of mail. It works if I manually run the filter on my inbox.

Also should the Set Junk Status to Junk action on its own obey the Account junk setting and move it to the designated folder automatically without an explicit Move action on the filter?

[mscott]

Is the incoming mail account IMAP or POP?

Nick, are you moving the message to a folder in a different account, if so what type is that account of the destination folder?

thanks,

-Scott

[NickJH]

Hi,

The incoming mail account is POP. Also the inbox and Junk folders (i.e. source and destination) are both in the "Nick Howitt" account rather than in the global account/local folders.
I do not know if it is relevant but my mail folders are in a non-standard location - another drive.

[edit]I do not think this is a new issue. I believe it also occurred in 1.5.x and 1.0.x[/edit]

Nick.

P.S. Do you by any chance have any comment about the news issue I posted above?

[Old Seamaiden]

I have tested it for a few days and I can say that it is generally great. IMHO, the memory leakage problem makes it almost unusable for everybody who wants to keep it always open. I am using TB under Linux (FC6) and I have 6 POP and 3 IMAP accounts configured. Yesterday, after running for 5 hours, TB was filling up 700MB of RAM: definitely too much for a mail client!!!! I think this problem (that is also present in TB 1.5.09) is quite important and should be addressed before releasing the final version of TB2.

Yes, I agree. Fix the memory problem before the final release. This is a major issue and should not be carried over to another version.