On 12/05/07, Chris Howie cdhowie@nerdshack.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
For me the killer features of Gmail are:
- Searching the entire mail bucket.
- 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.