Re: [OT] Thunderbird help, please

Tom McDonald wrote:
Yowie wrote:
Tom McDonald wrote:
Tom McDonald wrote:
Yowie wrote:
Having contracted the 'Virusremover2008' virus, and having to reformat the hardrive to be free of it, my husband & I are have 'seen the light' so to speak and have moved over to Firefox and Thunderbird just to be on the safer side.

Firefox isn't a problem. The mail part of Thunderbird is probably quite usable once I get the filtering to put the right messages in the right folders. It was a PITA to get OE to do it, and I can't imagine that it will be any easier with Thunderbird. just a matter of working out the hierarchy of rules.

My problem comes with newsgroups, in particular, the killfile. Clearly, I can use Thunderbird to read and post (I am using it now), but I have no idea how to get the killfile to work.

I have told the filter to delete all messages from 'x'. But there is no 'run' button in the dialog box, and the 'run filter' option from the main menu is greyed out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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This works well for me, although I use it very infrequently. The main problem comes when someone changes their e-mail address, or uses more than one e-mail addy. But it isn't hard to make a new filter for the new address.

You know, the procedure I outlined (and cut here) works pretty well. In fact, while I was figuring out how it worked, I accidentally kill-filed Yowie!

Someone mentioned looking in the filter log; to my embarrassed amazement (I guess that'd be chagrin), I'd dumped between five and ten of her posts.

Something about hoisting and a scaffolding to hold a mine against a city gait. Oops.

You probably haven't missed much :-). Probably just another infuriatingly illogical 'conversation' with David.

So that's a 'no' on having learned how to use Thunderbird's killfile? :-)

LOL.

In all seriousness, I think I've got the killfile figured out. This being SRQ, I don't killfile David, but I do try extra hard to ask myself why I am replying and whether my reply is in any way beneficial to anyone (David, myself, anyone else). I try and I fail, of course, but thats the nature of self discipline.

If I wasn't trying to emulate Quaker values, then yup, David would be in my killfile. But you have reminded me of a trick I had in OE - to make every post of his in bright orange, just to remind myself of what I am getting into. Thanks for jogging my memory on that one.

Now, I do have a few more questions. In OE, there is a facility to 'show replies to my messages'. Is there any option to do this in Thunderbird?

Second, messages don't seem to stay as marked 'read' if I leave the NG and read another folder and then come back. Any clues on how to make them stay 'read'?

Thanks again,

Yowie

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