On 12/05/07, Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)nerdshack.com> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> For me the killer features of Gmail are:
> 1. Searching the entire mail bucket.
> 2. One page per thread. So stupid mailing list threads are *one* skimmable page.
> Everything else sucks. So I want the above in Thunderbird and I'll go
> back to it.
I'm using Icedove 1.5.0 (Debian's rebranded
Thunderbird) and it has had 1. for
a while, and for 2. you don't get one page per thread, but it can display any
message folder in a threaded view, and whole threads are sorted by the time the
last message in that thread was received. So I can click on my wikien-l folder
and scroll up a few pages to review threads with newly received messages.
It only has these features in the "ticking off the list of features"
sense. I am quite familiar with Thunderbird, and it really does much
worse at these two than Gmail.
- d.