Posts tagged with: imap

I've been using Thunderbird 3 (I'm currently running one of the 3.1 RC builds so I can use Lightning) for quite some time now without any obvious problems. Some of the new functionality is a bit annoying, like the global search thingy that opens the results in a new tab, but otherwise it's been working well for me.I have however just become aware of a problem which most people wouldn't notice, and I certainly didn't until Oracle started enforcing the quota on my home directory: Thunderbird 3.x is a very very greedy pig when it comes to disk space.  Continue reading ►

Well, so far so good. I've been using IMAP to access my Gmail for just short of a week now and haven't hit any real problems. Things were a bit slow at first as Thunderbird built the index of the folder contents, but once done, all seems ok.The one thing that did annoy me for a while was Thunderbird wasn't checking all my Gmail folders/labels: it was only checking the Inbox.  Continue reading ►