I suppose that means one of three things:
A whole lot more than three, one would suppose. :-)
1) Suck it up, and deal with it. So what if Thunderbird closes on me once in a while, it runs perfectly fine when I restart it, and it takes but a second to restart it.
True; TB seems to be rather resilient in that regard.
2) Convince OOzy to stop using Outlook Express, however there may be a very good reason for the use of said evilness, like accessing email from a computer one is not allowed to install things on.
Frankly, I think the notion that Outlook Express /per se/ is at fault is a spurious one, though we all know OE users do hideous things like [ahem] top post ... can you /imagine/?? <shudder>. Possibly some setting /in/ that person's OE that's causing the incompatibility/crash ... I would think that more likely.
People do hideous things no matter what mail client they use, so I figured it'd be more polite to incorrectly finger Microsoft as the guilty party, and wait and see if the user stumbled across something they hadn't noticed that may be the source of the problem. There's also the chance it's something wrong with Thunderbird, however I've so loved this client since I tried it the first time, I didn't want to level such an accusation against it.
There's really a lot of places the problem could be coming from. Microsoft's unwillingness to support any sort of standards that includes anyone other than Microsoft, Thunderbird's "Technological Preview" status, user error, or some random combination of some or all of those factors. I just figured the safe way to go on this list, since I see a lot of M$ bashing already, was to just lay the blame on Microsoft 'til we got someone in the thread who really knew what they're talking about. Between you and I, all it seems is that we're guessing what's happening. And while I may not be able to speak for you about this, I know that I'm very inexperienced here. I've been running Mandrake maybe a month or so, after having lived on windows as long as I've had a computer at home.
3) Take over the world and remove all Microsoft products by force. But I haven't gotten around to taking over the world yet, and that would be too much work.
That would make you just as bad as M$ if you did, anyway, so not a good option (for the rest of us ;-)
Yes, yes, I know it would. But would anyone really care if the only option was free, open source stuff that worked?
Option one seems the best bet for me right now. Please let me know if anyone else has any ideas. Thanks!
Well, I'm not "anyone else," but assuming you're willing to accept another idea from the same tired ol' source, how about this? ...
In TB, under Tools | Options | Fonts, then the "Languages" section, there is an option to define the character sets (Western, or whatever), and then to apply them to all messages. Now, if it /is/ a matter of some oddball character set being chosen by the sender, wouldn't that eliminate the problem, if TB ignored it and displayed it in the way you chose?
Of course, (1) I may be misunderstanding what's going on or (2) how that option actually works, or even (3) the option may not actually work at all [yet], much as the option to ignore all incoming "read receipt" requests hasn't worked for me.
But trying it might be easier than going for world domination.
I really don't think it's a character set issue. I think it's something with OE's encoding of the email. Because it seems that the character set it declares it the same between the two clients. If it really is a character set issue, I suspect it's an issue with the information OE is giving not matching up with what Thunderbird considers to be the correct character set.
On the note of world domination, that's been on my to-do list for a while... I just don't expect to get to it right away. I have minions and everything already! In fact, one of them is the reason this list has only heard stupid questions from me, such as the email issue here, and what palm sync program I should use. I have a good source of tech support already. ^_^
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