Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives

[kcredden]

Slashdot writes:

Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives

Tech Support writes "Thunderbird 1.5 is here! It's ready to download, so get going. Finally, Firefox 1.5 has its counterpart. New features included automatic updates, anti-phishing protection, inline spellchecking, saved search folders, podcasting, RSS improvements, the ability to delete attachments from messages, and a whole lot more."

more here: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/01/12/137249.shtml

[tkcomer]

I’ll give it a try. I used the first version once before but there was something I didn’t like. Can’t put my finger on it now. Might have been the learning curve getting it set up the way I wanted. This thing has to be more secure than Outlook Express. After last year, I need more help in determining what is legitimate E-mail and what are those stupid phishing E-mails. Has anyone found out how to play MSN videos in Firefox yet? Other than the plug-in that lets you right-click on the web page and that starts Explorer?

[tkcomer]

Now I remember. When I forward an E-mail. I can’t figure out how to strip all the “junk” out of it first. Outlook Express shows the whole E-mail and I can delete all the other addresses and these types of marks >. I like to clean up an E-mail before I forward it. There has to be a way to do this in Thunderbird, I just haven’t figured it out yet.

[kcredden]

TK:

I've used T-bird since it came out, and I must admit I've got issues on it as well. Ever notice how your system will slow down when it's downloading a lot of mail? It's a system's hog. But I count that as being a baby, and hasn't had time to mature yet. I've got v1.5, don't seem much difference with it, but I think it's not quite the system's hog it once was. I'll have to wait and see.

As for phising, there's one easy way around this. Pull up a piece of mail, then click "View/message body as/plain text" Now every mail will show up as normal text, including the real URL. That's how phishing works. Send an e-mail via HTML (web page) with the wrong address, and 99% of the e-mail clients are set to show e-mail in normal (web page) mode, instead of plain text.

I think what they need on T-bird however, is a switch button. That will show letters in normal (plain text) and fancy (HTML) by clicking a button. Going though 3 menus is a bit of a pain.

Now for MSN videos/Firefox. Can you give me a URL that shows videos? I think I asked and either I didn't see an e-mail alert, or else you never sent it. I'll take a look though codec web sites and see if there's any out there. So I know you'll see this, I've sent a seperate e-mail about this.

I’ll give it a try. I used the first version once before but there was something I didn’t like. Can’t put my finger on it now. Might have been the learning curve getting it set up the way I wanted. This thing has to be more secure than Outlook Express. After last year, I need more help in determining what is legitimate E-mail and what are those stupid phishing E-mails. Has anyone found out how to play MSN videos in Firefox yet? Other than the plug-in that lets you right-click on the web page and that starts Explorer?

[tkcomer]

As far as the videos go, go here: http://www.msn.com/ Now click on video highlights. Firefox has a plug-in to switch to IE. From what I’ve read, several sites won’t let Firefox play videos. On purpose. As far as Thunderbird goes, I doubt I’ll stick with it. Still can’t edit a forwarded E-mail. And when I do forward one to my wife’s ‘puter, Outlook Express shows a blank page. You have to click on attachment to get it to open the E-mail I sent. A lot of people might miss that, thinking I sent a blank E-mail. I could copy and paste the message, save the attachment to the hard drive and attach it to the new E-mail, but that seems a hassle.

[kcredden]

Thanks TK: I'll start working on the video problem, ASAP. There should be a fix for this, just gotta find it.

BTW can I copy and send this to Mozilla about T-bird? I remember now I've had such problems before. Been awile though, and I agree. When I was with ATUG a blind/visually impaired BBS about 12 years ago, they pounded into my head the need for cutting back on quoting. So I adopoted that tactic. I'll be glad to suggest this feature to them.

As far as the videos go, go here: http://www.msn.com/ Now click on video highlights.
Still can’t edit a forwarded E-mail. And when I do forward one to my wife’s ‘puter, Outlook Express shows a blank page.

[tkcomer]

Go right ahead. that's the only thing I don't like about it.