Another blog entry! It never rains but it pours.
I have been using Thunderbird for a few weeks now. I’m pretty well used to it, and found only a couple of things annoying. I found the solution to one annoying thing today, hurrah!
When an email with images in it is opened, unless the sender is in my address book, Thunderbird, “to protect my privacy”, asks me whether I want to show images. Well, MailWasher Pro protects my privacy pretty well, so I’ve been putting all the senders in my address book.
However, some senders vary their email addresses with every email: one information aggregator emailer, for example, gives an email address of, say “mail.asdflkjhqweriouyasdjsdflkjh@…” one time, and “mail.cxbmnsdfgljhxmnzxlasdflihjxbmnvz@…” the next. The random character part is varied each time. Thunderbird was asking me to add each one of these “addresses” whenever the aggregator sent me an email. I was quite annoyed.
There is, however, a way to tell Thunderbird to always show images, but they don’t want you to do it (and blame them for any privacy violations, I suppose). I discovered it and changed the parameter, and lo! no more questions about showing images.
A small victory, but a very useful one for me. Now to try to get it to contract subfolders after I move an email into one.
yay, good for u!!
I have yet to find a completely satisfactory browser. That is why I have Safari, Thunderbird, Oasis and Flock, all of which I use regularly for different functions. The problem I’m having with this system is that all of them come up with significant upgrades so often they confuse me; it’s hard to decide which browser I should use for a particular function.
Well, I tend to use Firefox for most browsing, Thunderbird for e-mail, Agent for newsgroups, Chrome for Hearts of Space, IE if the website insists you must use IE. I also have Lynx and SeaMonkey on the computer but I rarely use them (unless someone wants a website tested for accessibility, in the case of Lynx).
Haven’t had the problem you describe yet, or perhaps it doesn’t faze me, as I just let it update then go about whatever I was going to do with them.