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davidascher replied on March 16, 2009 01:32 to the question "Thunderbird password problem" in Mozilla Messaging:

Well, if Thunderbird is set to save your passwords, you can see what they are under the Settings dialog, Privacy Tab, Passwords sub-tab, click on "Edit Saved Passwords".

However, if Thunderbird is asking for your password, then it either has an old one or doesn't have it remembered. You'll have to ask your email provider to reset your password. Unfortunately I can't help you with that as it depends on who controls your email server.

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davidascher replied on March 16, 2009 01:23 to the question "Verizon email problems" in Mozilla Messaging:

Sounds like Verizon changed the domain name of your email server. You might want to compare the configurations of the email accounts, and see if there are any differences.

davidascher replied on March 16, 2009 01:14 to the problem "Thunderbird 3 b 2 not updating Unread folder view" in Mozilla Messaging:

Done, thanks for doing the bugzilla archaeology. I've marked the bug blocking, so it should get attention soon.

davidascher replied on March 15, 2009 22:36 to the problem "Thunderbird 3 b 2 not updating Unread folder view" in Mozilla Messaging:

Specifically, use this link

davidascher replied on March 15, 2009 21:39 to the question "Get rid of Reply To default?" in Mozilla Messaging:

I think this is going on because you're getting emails that are sent to an email address that isn't the one you specified in the Account Settings dialog (maybe it's forwarded from an ISP, or otherwise redirected)? The easiest fix I think is to go in the Account Settings, find the account in question, click on "Manage Identities", and add the identity information for the email address in question.

(Note: the Reply-To header is added so that people who get the reply send their reply to the right email address; it's the Cc: or Bcc: header which is causing you to get copies of your sent mail. I believe that fixing the "identity mapping" will resolve both of your issues).

davidascher replied on March 15, 2009 21:35 to the problem "Thunderbird 3 b 2 not updating Unread folder view" in Mozilla Messaging:

That sounds like a bug with the unread view w/ our new folder pane implementation.

If you could file a bug on bugzilla.mozilla.org, that'd be super helpful.

davidascher replied on March 15, 2009 21:35 to the question "how do I limit the with of text to the size of the screen" in Mozilla Messaging:

I don't understand the question. Can you attach a screenshot showing what you mean?

davidascher replied on March 15, 2009 21:06 to the idea "Better vertical pane, similar to Evolution's" in Mozilla Messaging:

I definitely agree that we should experiment with multi-line email summaries. There are a bunch of technical hurdles on the way to get there, but it's definitely in our plans.

davidascher replied on March 15, 2009 21:04 to the idea "Size pixels like outlook or gmail to the write message" in Mozilla Messaging:

Interesting. Is it the ability to quickly pick a very large or very small fonts that you want, or is it the ability to "reset" a multi-size text to a common size that you want? The latter in particular makes a lot of sense to me.

davidascher replied on March 15, 2009 21:00 to the idea "Tags Overview for each folder" in Mozilla Messaging:

Yeah, I think we can do a much better job of giving people an overview of what's in a folder.

Showing tag counts is maybe possible, but I think it's a bit cryptic to just use color, and the folder pane is too narrow to show tag names.

One idea could to use the area that normally shows the message body, and use it when someone is selecting a folder, to describe the contents of the folder. We could show the tag distribution (with quick jumping off points to show all of the messages w/ particular tags), "important" messages somehow, etc.

What other folder-level information do people think would be useful to show?

davidascher replied on March 14, 2009 17:29 to the idea "Plain vs. HTML email should be wizardized and hidden" in Mozilla Messaging:

Done! Thanks for the reminder. (I'm still getting familiar w/ GetSatisfaction)

davidascher replied on February 11, 2009 01:42 to the idea "A label system like Gmail -with new features" in Mozilla Messaging:

Yeah, i like a lot about this. If someone wants to work on for example, adding tag-based views to the folder pane, that should now be relatively simple using just a bit of javascript. I'd be happy to help someone work through the issues in an extension as a first step.

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davidascher replied on January 27, 2009 00:51 to the praise "Thanks for the effort" in Mozilla Messaging:

cool, thanks!

davidascher replied on January 27, 2009 00:50 to the idea "Plain vs. HTML email should be wizardized and hidden" in Mozilla Messaging:

Agreed. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...

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davidascher replied on January 27, 2009 00:47 to the question "Can you make this a Thunderbird extension as well?" in Mozilla Messaging:

Some students from U of Toronto did look into making Ubiquity work with Thunderbird 3. I don't think it's finished yet, but it should be possible.

davidascher asked a question in Open Web Foundation on July 26, 2008 03:02:

What's the scope?

What specs are in scope? (presumably, OpenID-like things are in scope, but something like SOAP wouldn't have been).