[H-GEN] Re: HTML Mail in Mozilla

[Ben Fowler]

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Christopher Biggs wrote:
> I've been using firebird for ages and find it superior to Mozilla. 

Amen, perhaps Mozilla suite was what Fred Brooks would have called a 
'second generation system', and the Mozilla developers sought to get the 
  user interface, feature set and overall design right the next time 
around.  A case of third time lucky?

> I don't use a graphical mail client myself, but SWMBO uses mozilla and
> I'm NOT going to suggest she move to thunderbird until I'm fairly sure
> that it won't eat all her mail and get me killed.

I have a tendency to use graphical mail clients because of all the 
people who send me HTML-encoded email.  Mozilla Mail has been my browser 
of choice because it came bundled with my web browser, supported GPG 
with an addon and had bugs which sucked less than those of Outlook Express.

> So... how do y'all find thunderbird 0.2 for stability?

I've found that both Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird have largely the same 
bugs and features.  Thunderbird has lost a handful of features, like the 
dropdown menu off the Send button that lets me check all my accounts, 
etc.  On the other hand, I like the new spellchecker.  The problems I've 
been experiencing relate to buggy handling of checking multiple folders 
on the IMAP server (I use procmail and spamassassin to process my mail 
on the server side).  Given a ton of bug fixing and a bit of polish [1] 
it should soon rock.

-regards,

Ben.

[1] Another thing I find interesting /irritating is that the Gecko 
Runtime Environment (GRE) hasn't been factored out of Firebird and 
Thunderbird into a standalone component yet.  Splitting up the old suite 
seems to have achieved little bar duplicating the mozilla runtime for 
each application that uses it.  It seems unnecessarily wasteful to me.


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