Comments on: Thunderbird 5.0, what a load of crap.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:32:36 +0000

I’ve gone to the darkside and upgraded to version 12. Stupid number of releases just to bump the number, sigh.

By: Ross Holloway

Ross Holloway — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:57:48 +0000

Alarmingly bad, and mean really f***ing terrible.

When I try replying to an email it don’t just allow me to type a response. No. I have to select an email account – why? The message was sent to one email account, the one I am replying from.

Then I can’t click in the body content area for a weirdly rendered version of the mail I am replying to. (This seems to be an image that I’m being prompted to paste).

I suspect this is all to offer me a level of control I have no interest in.

I just want to reply to my email simply and quickly.

Is anyone else experiencing similar problems?

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:06:03 +0000

In reply to 2101bob.

I had that as well.

Don’t know if anyone else had a popup to upgrade to 5 today or not… I did. I do hope I don’t get spammed by reminders for something I do not want.

By: 2101bob

2101bob — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:50:29 +0000

Mine at least worked and didn’t lose anything. I just got fed up with an error going back some way, muttering that the Inbox had been corrupted by complying with my message filters, and that I needed to delete the inbox.msf … over and over again. I’ve also returned to 3.1.11 – which seems to be the consensus solution to a pretty wide variety of problems with Tbird 5!
Perhaps we should’ve all remembered that v3 wasn’t broken, so we shouldn’t have tried fixing it?!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:16:09 +0000

Effing load of shit, pile of crap that this is has just lost 5 months of sodding work emails – I am not bloody amused.

So I’ve upgraded to version 3.