Alright, thunderbird 5 is included in -current branch.

To Pat: I don't deserve to be included into Changelog)) but thanks.

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Just a quick question: is there anything (a dependency?) preventing Thunderbird 5 from being in Slackware 13.37 -stable?

I realized in light of the previous posts that my question above is somewhat redundant.

I'll rephrase: what (if anything) is preventing Thunderbird 5 from being in the stable branch?

If it ain't security update, i doubt it will be merged into -Stable branch

Willysr,

Good point.

Regards,

-Drew

Firefox 5 does fix 8 security issues, 5 of which are labeled, "critical."

http://www.mozilla.org/security/know....html#firefox5

The color code didn't copy and paste so I've put an * beside the "critical" fixes.

"Critical: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing."

That's true for Firefox 5, but is the same true for Thunderbird 5 (the subject of this thread)?

Regards,

Oops. Sorry, senior moment, I guess.

Here you go, for what it's worth:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Thund...s-208864.shtml

Well, there you go. It seems that the Mozilla Foundation has moved ahead with updates, but is still supporting older versions and doesn't know what to do about compatibility with plug-ins.

It sounds like a mess in some ways.

Regards,

I see thunderbird 3.1.12 security update has been released upstream, so it doesn't look like TB 3.1 support is dead yet.

Too late for me though. I've already switched back to using Opera as my email client. I was already using it as my browser.

I like Opera Mail, i.e., the e-mail client, and it has greatly improved in recent years, but I have never figure out how to mass mail with it, without a great deal of hassle.
For example, in Thunderbird, what I've been using most recently, you can compose a message and then select those from your address book you would like to send it to, and then click on, "To" or "BCC" or "CC" and all the names are properly inserted into the header.
There is no way to do that, as far as I know, in Opera Mail. If there were, I would use it instead of Thunderbird.

BTW, Thunderbird 6.0, has been released by Mozilla.

You can ctrl-click multiple recipients in the contacts panel and then click on compose, and there's also the 'add all contacts in folder' option, which I guess is Opera's equivalent to distribution-lists, but yes it probably can't be considered a full-featured mail solution.

If I wasn't using Opera as my browser I probably wouldn't use it for mail. It's a kill two birds with one stone thing for me, and for casual use it works well enough and has a good feel (though also a few rough edges).

That is one way to get around the problem. Once you click on "compose" a new box pops up and, usually, all the addresses are highlighted on a single line. You can then right click and "copy" and then "paste" all the addresses into the addresses line on your previously written message. A real hard way around the problem.

BTW, I've used Opera since the the whole program fit on One 3 1/2 inch floppy disk (no joke), but I'm about to give up and switch to Firefox. The last few versions of Opera have been very flaky, especially here on linuxquestions.org. If I'm reading a post and decide to reply and hit the "wand" button, I'm signed on and then taken to the very first page of the site and have to work my way back to the Slackware forum and then to the topic and post I wanted to reply to. Opera also often, more often than not, crashes while reading this site. I've posted these problems on the Opera forum and they have, for the most part been ignored.

Now, with Firefox 5, Mozilla has "finally caught up" with some of Opera's features, and I've been using it more than Opera. The crew over at Opera seems to be more concerned with coming up with "new and wonderful features" than fixing their problems or, even, marketing their product. Too bad. They have always had a good product and have lead the field in "innovation" but have never understood how to market what was, IMHO, the best browser on the market and their attitude toward anyone trying to point out problems that need correction is negative to say the least. Oh, well, those are a couple of reasons why an otherwise good product has always ran in 3rd or 4th place. Well, now that Google has entered the game, make that 4th or 5th.

For those who need the lastest version 6 of thunderbird 64 bits, the source for theirs languages can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbir.../linux-x86_64/ .
I did extracted it to /opt and it works without visible issues.

I don't use fancy features like the wand, auto-completion, password managers and such like. They're usually the first things I turn-off. I haven't been using Opera as long as you have, I'm a recent convert (having tried past version and having always found something that makes then unsuitable), but I'm pretty happy with it in it's latest form. I've never seen it crash, but then I don't install flashplayer and I can't help but think that is the major cause of browser crashes as firefox also never seems to crash without it.

I've made a couple of bug reports (not on the forum, but using the 'report bug' link on the website) and all of them have been addressed within a release or two, so while they are certainly stubborn about some things (like not adding the pgp/gpg support that people have been crying out for, for years), the bugs I've reported did get fixed.

Everyone is different I guess and if Mozilla's stuff suits you better at the moment then all's well and good. At the moment Opera 11.50 suits me down to the ground - I just hope they don't go and ruin it.