Comments on: Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1

By: Uleialabator

Uleialabator — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:14:59 +0000

As David Naylor said, there is a dataloss bug, which I haven’t found in Bugzilla, but I did find an old similar bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117820

This nasty bug happened twice to me, and if not solved it makes me be untrustful about Mozilla Thunderbird.

By: J Edwards

J Edwards — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:45:38 +0000

The best advice I can give anyone is to pass up the urge to download and install Thunderbird 2.0.0.1 unless you want to potentially loose all your E-Mail Files. Beyond that you will not be able to access your profile as pertains to Thunderbird as it will be in a hidden directory which you may not be able to access with any tool you have. The install will also over write any Netscape 7.X or 8.0 files you may have on your machine.

Needs a lot of work!

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By: Loser-X : Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1

Loser-X : Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1 — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:37:47 +0000

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By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:02:27 +0000

I found a dataloss bug in 2.0 b1, so be careful and follow my advice.

I was reorganizing my emails from a folder based system to a tag based system, which included moving emails around quite a bit.

When moving more than a ceratain number of messages (or kB?) only a few of the selected emails would actually move, the rest would just disappear – unrecoverably! Deleting msf files would not fix the problem.

This seemed to be the case whatever way you chose to execute the move… drag-n-drop, context menu, etc.

However, copying messages works.

So, if you’re going to reorganize your emails in TB 2.0 (b1), copy them and delete the originals instead of moving, unless you want to loose loads of old emails!

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:43:06 +0000

Can a custom tag be set to automatic, so it will be set based on content like the “spam”-tag?

By: Jo Hermans

Jo Hermans — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:21:01 +0000

As fas as I remember, Bayes spam filtering didn’t change between 1.5 and 2.0. The problem is that spam is changing : spammers are rewriting their mails to avoid detection, for instance by adding random text (quotes from Shakespeare etc ..). Or they would place the spam in an image, attached to a fairly normal mail. The Bayes spam filter can’t detect that.