Showing posts with label thunderbird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thunderbird. Show all posts
Wow! Thunderbird now reminds me to attach the file
Thunderbird 3.0.3 introduces a great feature that reminds you to attach a document in case you type words like "attaching" in your email. It scans through the matter of the composed email finds relevant word that may indicate that you may want to attach some file. Here is a screenshot.
Thunderbird 3.0.3 migration
I recently migrated to Thunderbird 3.0.3 There is a specific problem with Thunderbird that I have seen at times. Ever faced a problem of loosing your mail data and accounts after migrating to new Thunderbird? Thunderbird stores data under directory named .thunderbird in your home. But maybe just in Ubuntu or some versions of Thunderbird store it under directory named .mozilla-thunderbird. So if after installing a new Thunnderbird and restarting it, if you are not able to see your e-mails, it might well be the problem of directory names.
To resolve, try renaming the directory (Whatever applies to you),
> mv .mozilla-thunderbird .thunderbird
or
> mv .thunderbird .mozilla-thunderbird
Restart your Thunderbird and now you should be able to see your e-mails.
I have mostly seen this problem when I install Thunderbird externally i.e. not through package manager. By installing I mean simply extracting it to /opt and not doing "./configure make install"
To resolve, try renaming the directory (Whatever applies to you),
> mv .mozilla-thunderbird .thunderbird
or
> mv .thunderbird .mozilla-thunderbird
Restart your Thunderbird and now you should be able to see your e-mails.
I have mostly seen this problem when I install Thunderbird externally i.e. not through package manager. By installing I mean simply extracting it to /opt and not doing "./configure make install"
Setting default alarm for events in Lightning (Thunderbird Calendar)
With new Lightning version 0.9, I had started facing a problem where if an event was created or sent to me by someone, which did not have default alarm set, there wont be any alarm going off before the event.
It was probably my sheer laziness that I never really looked for an option for this, If you are facing a same problem here is how to fix it,
go to Edit -> Preferences -> Lightning -> Alarms and set the "Default alarm setting for events" to "On"
It was probably my sheer laziness that I never really looked for an option for this, If you are facing a same problem here is how to fix it,
go to Edit -> Preferences -> Lightning -> Alarms and set the "Default alarm setting for events" to "On"
Problems with Thunderbird calendar after Thunderbird upgrade
If you are not able to see the calendar data after upgrading your Thunderbird, specially after upgrading your linux version, the problem can be solved by installing libstdc++5.
I recently upgraded to Xubuntu 8.10 from OpenSUSE 10.3 (late but worth it) and after importing my mail data, I could not see the calendar. The Thunderbird version I used before was 2.0.0.6 and the new version was 2.0.0.17. I tried installing the lower version (in /opt keeping the prebuild version) and it complained to start. It complained about missing libstdc++5.so after I installed that (sudo apt-get install libstdc++5) all worked fine.
After a bit of googling that the problem with latest version is that it is dependant on libstdc++6 whereas the calendar plugin is dependant on libstdc++5 (I am using Lightning version 0.9 which presumably is the latest)
I recently upgraded to Xubuntu 8.10 from OpenSUSE 10.3 (late but worth it) and after importing my mail data, I could not see the calendar. The Thunderbird version I used before was 2.0.0.6 and the new version was 2.0.0.17. I tried installing the lower version (in /opt keeping the prebuild version) and it complained to start. It complained about missing libstdc++5.so after I installed that (sudo apt-get install libstdc++5) all worked fine.
After a bit of googling that the problem with latest version is that it is dependant on libstdc++6 whereas the calendar plugin is dependant on libstdc++5 (I am using Lightning version 0.9 which presumably is the latest)
