[gui-talk] Fwd: Thunderbird Information

[Steve Pattison]

>To: gw-info at gwmicro.com
>From: Josh de Lioncourt eternia at draconisentertainment.com
>
>For those of you still having some trouble getting Thunderbird 
>working, here's a summary of my experiences and how i've gotten 
>everything working.  I hope it helps those of you still struggling, 
>and GW staff assist others in the future.  Obviously, these things 
>may not work out exactly the same for everyone, as there are so many 
>factors involved.
>
>Thunderbird works fairly well out of the box with one account, 
>though I discovered that the list of messages would occasionally not 
>read properly until shutting down the Message Pane.  (Go to 
>View/Layout.../Message Pane, or press F8).  If you are using it with 
>one account, this may be all you need to do to get Thunderbird up and running.
>
>If you're like me, and you have many accounts, you'll want to set 
>these up in Thunderbird, and this is where I ran into the biggest 
>stumbling block.  As soon as the second account was added, the 
>message lists stopped reading correctly again, regardless of the 
>message pane.  "One of one" is all that Window-Eyes would report.
>
>Many suggestions have come across the list, and it was a combination 
>of three of them that finally got everything working properly for me 
>with multiple accounts.  As far as I can tell, in my circumstance, 
>no one of these fixed it all, but the three together appear to have 
>done the trick...at least so far.  I will continue testing, but here 
>are the three factors.
>
>1. Remove all the tool bars from the display.  View/toolbars.  This 
>included needing to remove the status bar as well.  I've since tried 
>putting the status bar back, and that seems to cause some issues.
>
>2. Change your system's display to 1024X768.  As I don't have a 
>monitor connected to my desk top, this isn't really a big deal for 
>me, but I could see this being annoyingly problematic for 
>some.  Wish this was not necessary.
>
>3. Keep the message pane off. (View/Layout.../Message Pane).
>
>As of this writing, I am preparing to switch to Thunderbird for the 
>next while and see how it works over the long term.
>
>"The rich declare themselves poor
>"But most of us are not sure
>"If we have too much, but we'll take our chances
>"'cause God stopped keeping score..."
>         Praying for Time -- George Michael

Regards Steve
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
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