It works for me.
OT: Thunderbird
Nov 29, 2020
Last reply: 5 years ago
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And thanks very much to everyone who suggested it.
One of the small things that does my head right in.
(I haven't read the whole thread, presume you've sorted it? Right click next to reply then customise.)
I'll admit I don't get that.
However I have seen some really s*it GUIs in my time. Possibly the best being the Baan Windows client which - in 2000 - looked like it had failed a Windows 3.0 beauty contest.
From memory all the fields were locked - not that you could easily tell, as they weren't greyed out. And you had to input the first variable somewhere in the middle of the page before jumping all over the place to enter the rest.
You haven't missed anything. It was a connection that appealed to my very juvenile mind.
I usually delete that sort of post before inflicting it on others, but that one somehow got past the censor. Sorry.
Weird, on my laptop the new update has lost the "Send" and "Attach" buttons, but at least you can still do both via the "File" menu.
I've just downloaded and a Quick click on task manager reveals:
formatting link
Really? over 2560 MEGABYTES for a newsgroup reader?
My version is using 170 MB.
Has it forgotten only to download x number of headers? Recently after an upgrade it decided to download allnewgroups headers since history began :( It corrected itself after it spent ages getting all those headers and then deleting most of them based on other settings about only keeping posts for x days
Hmm, I'm using 520MB.
But I use Thunderbird as my mail client too.
Attach is top right send is top left
That toolbar can still be edited by right-clicking it and using "customise..."
It's only the message pane toolbar that has lost the customise option.
Mine's generally "only" 300-400MB.
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