Karanbir Singh - Thinkability

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05/Jun/2008 11:53 , Categories: Software

I've just been looking at Thunderbird 3.0Alpha and it cant sent email when smtp login is required and 'secure authentication' is selected... wtf!

Many people will jump and point out that smtp isnt meant to be a secure transport, however since pretty much everyone supports secure logins these days and smtp-over-tls or ssl, and many mta's using secure transport, it can be atleast semi secure. Specially within mail domains that one might be able to influence. So whats the deal with Tb3.0 ?

Agreed, its an Alpha release and they might get it resolved before release.....

- KB

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Comment from: Mukund [Visitor] · http://www.mukund.org/

I switched to Mutt a couple of days back due to some issues I had with Thunderbird with composing email (it's fine for most cases, except that the built-in editor is not that featureful). It took a while to create the muttrc, but in the end it has been well worth the effort. I've set it so that emails of various addresses deliver to the same account and use features in mutt so it automatically picks the right address to put in the From: header in the reply. The IMAP header and body caching seems faster than Thunderbird, and I like the keyboard macros, running functions on tagged messages, etc.

05/Jun/2008 @ 12:35

Comment from: ash [Visitor]

Been using SeaMonkey 2.0 nightlies for couple of months now, and STMPS (SMTP-over-SSL) works fine. I did let SM 2.0 import my settings from SM 1.1 so that may be the difference.

SeaMonkey Mail should share the same code as TB, so I'm guessing that the problem is in the configuration tool somewhere.

I'd be interested to see if STMPS would work by importing the settings from a TB 2.0 installation.

22/Jun/2008 @ 19:25

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