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Thunderbird Innovates With Mail
Has anyone used the new Thunderbird 2? Something on the new feature list caught my eye that seems to be a real mail innovation.
Looks like they've added Back and Forward buttons that allow you to navigate through a mail conversation. I've never seen a mail client that does this and it sounds like it could be useful.
Anyone used it? Useful? Not?
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I use the threded view of mail all the time - in fact I don't know how people function with out it, so things are slotted into their place in the conversation thread right from the start. but I guess if people don't to that, this could be useful.
Mail on OSX does something similar IIRC.
Michael - I'm not sure this feature is the same though. If I built it (which admittedly I didn't) I would make it look across all mails in the system (ie in all folders) to walk? Rather than just the thread in the current folder (like Mail).
Unfortunately it's not what you think it is. It's just back and forward like in a browser. Eg I click on email "Viagra", then on email "re: drinks tonight", then email "fred" - if I then click on Back it will go to "re: drinks tonight", Back again it will go to "Viagra" and the reverse for Forward.
I was really looking forward to a conversation view like in gmail. They had it in the feature list initially but it seems to have been dropped at some point.
I learned a lesson on how there is no "best app" for all of us, it all depends on our communcation, work ..etc habits.
I was having a hard time convincing someone of the huge productivity benefits from using conversation threads a'la gmail as the default view. He did not seem to get it.
Then I looked at his email account, and it turned out he -unlike me - did not really have long threads, it was typically singe inbound/outbound email pairs. Different usage pattern > different tool.
I do not know Thunderbird too much, because I am using The Bat! (http://www.ritlabs.com) for years. This client has a lot of features, which are missing from other clients. Especially by using Ctrl-Backspace I can go back in conversation finding previous messages. I am not sure if I can go forward also - I have never tested it, because the program has a lot of fast filters, which are useful and handy when searching through e-mails.
You can also re-thread all the folder like in mailing list to keep conversation together.
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