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Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird
Date 2017-05-22 23:19 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Winfield Hill wrote:
> rickman wrote...
>>
>> I updated T-bird and it quit working.  It starts and the app comes up,
>> but it is dysfunctional.  It won't even open the "about" information to
>> see what version it is.
>>
>> So I downloaded SeaMonkey and it loaded all the configuration info
>> automagically.  If I had known it was this easy I would have done it a
>> long time ago.
>>
>> I'm not as happy with the user interface as I was with T-bird.  The
>> fonts are smaller and more crowded when viewing the message and group
>> lists.  My vision is not always so good, so this is important to me.
>> More importantly I wasn't able to easily find support of any sort.  I'll
>> have to dig further.
>>
>> At least SeaMonkey works.
>
>  I prefer T-Bird over the rest.  How about uninstalling TBird,
>  then reinstalling and let it grab its settings from SeaMonkey.

Have you tried SeaMonkey?  I don't know if T-bird will import settings 
from SeaMonkey, do you?  I also don't know if it will work any better 
than it did before.  I've put off switching for sometime.  T-bird has 
been a PITA for months because it has delays for not apparent reason.

-- 

Rick C

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SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 15:53 -0400
  Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-22 17:53 -0700
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-22 18:42 -0700
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-22 18:56 -0700
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 23:19 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2017-05-22 23:14 -0500
        Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 00:17 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2017-05-23 14:15 -0500
  Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 09:01 -0400
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 10:37 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 11:54 -0400
        Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 14:47 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Bert Hickman <bert-hickman@comcast.net> - 2017-07-14 15:25 -0500
            Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-07-14 21:34 +0100
            Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 16:51 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 16:25 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2017-07-14 22:58 +0000

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