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[Stevendejong <275471@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you think about it, this bug and the way it is dealt with by the
developers is exemplary for the product. It's "major updates" are minor
patches. Who notices the heralded new account wizard as an exising user?
Nobody. Who has problems with inline attachments? Everybody, since
version 0.01 of the product. So let's develop a new account wizard and
mark the inline attachments bug as "RESOLVED INVALID".

Similarly, all the other issues and feature requests I invested time and
effort in on this forum have not been seen as relevant by the
developers. (E.g. the fact that entering and especially copy-pasting or
cutting multiple email addresses from e.g. the To: field is so
ridiculously cumbersome; the fact that the search engine introduced in
TB3 is incredibly slow; the fact that properly layouting HTML emails is
really a pain; the ugly and inconvenient placement of buttons in the
preview pane header; the fact that only new email composition does not
happen in a tab; ...)

I've started contributing bugs and feature requests around version 1.x.
We're now at version 5, five years later at least, and most major
opportunities for improvement have not been addressed. Thunderbird as a
consequence still is an immature product, and given how the developers
prioritize their coding efforts, I'm sure version 8 will give us the 5th
major GUI overhaul and a spectacular New Account Wizard... and it will
still reload IMAP attachments every time you select an email.

I hate to say it as a definite non-fanboy of Apple, but if the TB
developers would take a short look at Apple Mail (even the one in OS X
10.6), they'd notice everything that is wrong with TB. If Apple can do
it, then it must not be too difficult to write a simple yet functional
email program.

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Title:
  mozilla attachments are dowloaded multiple times

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Invalid
Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: thunderbird

  scenario.  open thunderbird and a message (new or old, doesnt matter)
  with a big attachment, lets say a .jpg that is 2Mb.  and for the sake
  of argument lets also say it is the first new message of your day.  So
  TBird automatically focuses on the first message, and you can watch
  the progress bar as it loads the message....

  some time later, the load is done.  hey, the image has a funny
  resolution in this view, so i double-click on the message and pop up a
  message window.  AND THEN THE MESSAGE WINDOW DOWNLOADS THE oh-so-
  fargin-lovely 2Mb AGAIN.

  no, this is not all.  No, TBird can be made to DL that sucker in all
  sorts of odd ways.

  It is very annoying and seems so unnecessary.  Are mail messages ever
  actually volatile?  And even if they were, for what fraction of hte
  people would they be like that?

  this is probably not a "bug" per se; but my bet is a lot of people
  would like to download that 2Mb just once.


  b.t.w., in this scenario I have an IMAP-SSL connection to my server.

  ubuntu 8.04 hardy

  thunderbird:
    Installed: 2.0.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
    Candidate: 2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
    Version table:
       2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
          500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy-security/main Packages
   *** 2.0.0.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
          500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy-updates/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://mirror.pacific.net.au hardy/main Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Sep 28 21:21:28 2008
  Dependencies:
   
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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