Comments on: Switchers in heaven and hell

By: Dysantic

Dysantic — Mon, 01 May 2006 16:59:07 +0000

Thank you Tim and Brady. A quick Google search for this exact issue with Thunderbird led me to this site, and you provided the fix! :-)

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:44:01 +0000

Yes, I had to turn that sig_bottom to false as well, so now it works well.

As a default, this guy doesn’t really store sigs so much as it just points to an html file. The suck part is thunderbirds HTML rendering is just as poor as mails rendering — not up to par with their browser by alteast 4 years (outlook, hotmail, even worse:( — only roundcube.net renders mail as the browser you’re viewing it does) — which means I have to use ugly, non standard code. Sigh…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:28:20 +0000

I think you are too kind ;-)

Does that bring the signature with it, or do you need to play with the “mail.identity.default.sig_bottom” string? Or some other string?

There are various options at Tools > Account Settings > Composition and Addressing too, although they are greyed out for me, probably because I don’t store sigs in particular email clients any more. Storing them as snippets in Spell Catcher X or Textpander means that they are available in whatever client I’m using or even in web mail or forums.

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:22:01 +0000

See Tim, we’re friends forever now — you’re a saint and a scholar, I would never have even thought to look in there in all my wildest toying with programs and IT; thank you!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:16:29 +0000

Brady: Open the Config Editor displayed on the Advanced pane of Thunderbird’s preferences.

Find the string “mail.identity.default.reply_on_top” and change the value from “0″ to “1″.

Restart Thunderbird.

Works for me.

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:47:57 +0000

You know, since all these articles, I dropped Mail.app for thunderbird, going on a month now… and to tell you the truth, it’s starting to suck as well. I’m getting a slow load drag on my IMAP accounts, and it has some annoying bugs that seem to be, of course, mac only…

Specifically, if anyone can tell me how to change the preferences to auto start responses above quotes text (with my signature), instead of below it, we’ll be friends forever!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:14:45 +0000

As an imapper, I’m severly tempted too sometimes, I must admit.

I just find that even with the IMAP annoyances, the combination of other things that I love about Mail.app still outweighs the pain.

Most of the time.

The crap IMAP support is such a common complaint that the Mail development team must be working on making it better. Surely.

By: Richard5

Richard5 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:01:05 +0000

I have to say I recently, reluctantly, dropped Mail.app for Thunderbird. The IMAP features of Mail.app are the worst I’ve ever seen, emails appearing multiple times and re-appearing after deletion. When Apple get it right again I’ll be the first to switch back again….