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IMAP and attachments

Submitted by flexik on December 22, 2007 - 5:33am

hello 2 all.

I use gmail accounts via IMAP, but when someone send attachment more that 10 mb, it's auto download when I choose to see message. But it take time.

How to force Thunderbird only to download message text (download attachments only after request) thanks.

Open URL links in Firefox

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Submitted by rondinelle on December 20, 2007 - 4:44pm

I use PortableApps mostly at work and am grateful for the convenience of accessing my email through Thunderbird Portable. My one query, and I couldn't get the right answer searching through here, was if it's possible to make URL links within emails open in Firefox Portable instead of my PC's default browser.

Since it is a work PC, the default browser is IE and I can't change that.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated and keep up the fantastic work!

New accounts not coming up

Submitted by scotttobin on December 20, 2007 - 1:49pm

i installed TB portable and added my email accounts on my laptop on my new flash drive. I then took my flash drive to my work computer and plugged in. The app comes up but it is asking me to configure email accounts again like they werent done.

I looked at the file folders and see my accounts there but when i launch the app they arent coming up.

Ideas?

Design flaw permits storing of incoming emails in the "sent email" storage bins.

Submitted by Dr.Mu on December 18, 2007 - 11:07am

The Thunderbird, including its Portable version, allows the user to move incoming emails in the bins where emails already sent out are stored, and the other way around. This mixing of the incoming emails with out-went emails is a problem when searching for archived emails later. The design engineer should implement a module to prohibit this kind of operation. In other words, if a user drags an incoming email to the out-went email storage bins, the system should give an error message: "You Cannot store incoming emails in the out-went email bins!"

Chaning plain text to HTML

Submitted by _Shadow_ on December 16, 2007 - 7:37am

Okay, well I'm not sure if I'm right about the plain text and HTML part, but I think I am. Correct me if I'm way off, please Blum

Well, isn't it right that when composing an e-mail you do so in plain text, right? But you can change it to HTML though? I would like to know how to do that. Could anyone please tell me, pretty please?
Also, could you list the different e-mail hosting providers that use HTML and the others that use plain text?

Download everything gmail Thunderbird

Submitted by innomen on December 15, 2007 - 1:57am

Hello, I would like to use thunderbird to download everything it can get it's hands on in my gmail account so that I can delete my gmail archive, and still have my offline backup.

Believe it or not this marks the first serious attempt to use smtp mail so if my question is silly please forgive.

I can connect just fine, but it only loads 250 messages or so at a time, and i have to move them to an archive folder i've made and then recheck and it loads another 250. also they are moving fast, i'm not sure it is downloading the whole message and i'm sure its not getting attachments.

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