On 05/15/2013 10:50 AM, John Hupp wrote:
On Windows, Thunderbird has suffered from severe font bugs starting
with v.16 I think. This occurs with users who send in HTML format
(rather than plain text) and have changed the default composition font
in Options. If you do any editing of your reply, the recipient is
likely to receive text with a mixture of user-selected and default
fonts. It looks like something a child may have written. But this
problem does not appear in the editor window, and the sender usually
isn't aware of the problem until someone replies and includes the
previously-sent material.
I brought this up with one other *buntu/Thunderbird user, who didn't
seem to have the same problem. Any feedback from Lubuntu Thunderbird
users here?
John:
Months ago, you alerted me to this possibility, and I have been watching
for it.
E-mails I send to this list are all done using Thunderbird mail, on
Lubuntu (latest version). Since all those e-mails are sent to the list,
I see them (what I sent) coming back again.
I always use HTML (I don't use plain text unless the sender requires it).
I have never seen the dire consequences you warned me of, and repeated
above. As a writer, I am sensitive to that sort of thing, and would be
repelled by it.
The only problem I have observed, is what appears in the indented line
below. In that line, I selected the word "bold" and changed it to bold
emphasis, and it appeared that way (in bold) to me in the e-mail I
sent. Here is the line:
This line has a single word in *bold* emphasis (or at least, it
should have).
To avoid that problem, I simply avoid using different emphasis (which
you can't do in plain text anyway).
My experience with Thunderbird has been good.
I switched to it from Evolution (which I used for years before) because
on Lubuntu, it kept hanging (and severely slowing down my system) every
time it tried to check for new mail. It was so bad, that I had it never
check for mail, and I would manually click to have it check for mail at
times I could take the risk.
I still keep my Evolution mail database, but only use it for accessing
e-mails from the years I used it. I never use it for new e-mails.
As far as I know, the hang problem is still there. It was a known
problem back when I was fighting with it, and they never did fix it (at
least, not on Lubuntu). I didn't want to change to some other
distribution to be able to use it.
Thunderbird has been a good alternative for me, and it has features like
being able to automatically delete e-mails older than a specified
time-period for each folder (so my e-mail database doesn't keep growing).
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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