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From: BillW50 on 27 May 2010 18:34 On 5/27/2010 6:28 AM, BillW50 wrote: > In news:htkrr2$roo$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, > ~misfit~ typed on Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:38 +1200: >> Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote: >> [snip] >>> But I have Thunderbird set to not to >>> download message bodies. So maybe that is why. OE6 can be set not to >>> download message bodies either. But it stores them automatically if >>> up opened them once or have them set as being watched. I like that a >>> lot. Probably not a good idea if you have Internet access all of the >>> time and are tight on disk space too. >> >> Going slightly away from the subject here, I use Tbird as my email >> client and it really annoys me that, after it asks me if I want to >> download remote content in an email, it doesn't store it, not even >> for that session. >> So if I'm checking prices for components in a weekly 'specials' email >> from a supplier (I tend to keep each weekly email in my inbox until I >> get the next one from the same company, then I delete last week's >> one) and click to another email next time I want to look back at that >> email again it re-downloads all of the graphical (etcetera) content. >> That can be a real PITA if you're off line at the time or have limied >> conection as some organisations like to send lots of pretty pictures >> in their (or linked to their) emails. It can chew through data pretty >> quickly. > > You need to setup whatever folder(s) you want for offline reading. Then > it will store them on the computer. Besides selecting whole folders, you can download starred and selected messages too under File -> Offline. So to download all watched in a newsgroup, you have to view only unread watched and select them all and then download. Nothing as nice as OE, but somewhat usable. -- Bill Thunderbird Portable 3.0 (20091130)
From: ~misfit~ on 27 May 2010 19:18 Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote: > In news:htkrr2$roo$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, > ~misfit~ typed on Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:38 +1200: >> Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote: >> [snip] >>> But I have Thunderbird set to not to >>> download message bodies. So maybe that is why. OE6 can be set not to >>> download message bodies either. But it stores them automatically if >>> up opened them once or have them set as being watched. I like that a >>> lot. Probably not a good idea if you have Internet access all of the >>> time and are tight on disk space too. >> >> Going slightly away from the subject here, I use Tbird as my email >> client and it really annoys me that, after it asks me if I want to >> download remote content in an email, it doesn't store it, not even >> for that session. >> So if I'm checking prices for components in a weekly 'specials' email >> from a supplier (I tend to keep each weekly email in my inbox until I >> get the next one from the same company, then I delete last week's >> one) and click to another email next time I want to look back at that >> email again it re-downloads all of the graphical (etcetera) content. >> That can be a real PITA if you're off line at the time or have limied >> conection as some organisations like to send lots of pretty pictures >> in their (or linked to their) emails. It can chew through data pretty >> quickly. > > You need to setup whatever folder(s) you want for offline reading. > Then it will store them on the computer. Yeah, I looked at that but it seems that it would then download remote content for every message. I don't want to do that, some of the weekly emails I get, if I'm not in need of their wares that week, I delete without reading / downloading the 'remote content'. Oh well, it's better than the last email client I was using until the end of last year; Calypso 3. That is abandonware that did everything I wanted until I needed to use SSL for one or more of the accounts I check and it doesn't do SSL. :-( -- Shaun. "When we dream.... that's just our brains defragmenting" G Jackson.
From: BillW50 on 27 May 2010 20:15
On 5/27/2010 6:18 PM, ~misfit~ wrote: > Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote: >> In news:htkrr2$roo$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, >> ~misfit~ typed on Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:38 +1200: >>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> But I have Thunderbird set to not to >>>> download message bodies. So maybe that is why. OE6 can be set not to >>>> download message bodies either. But it stores them automatically if >>>> up opened them once or have them set as being watched. I like that a >>>> lot. Probably not a good idea if you have Internet access all of the >>>> time and are tight on disk space too. >>> >>> Going slightly away from the subject here, I use Tbird as my email >>> client and it really annoys me that, after it asks me if I want to >>> download remote content in an email, it doesn't store it, not even >>> for that session. >>> So if I'm checking prices for components in a weekly 'specials' email >>> from a supplier (I tend to keep each weekly email in my inbox until I >>> get the next one from the same company, then I delete last week's >>> one) and click to another email next time I want to look back at that >>> email again it re-downloads all of the graphical (etcetera) content. >>> That can be a real PITA if you're off line at the time or have limied >>> conection as some organisations like to send lots of pretty pictures >>> in their (or linked to their) emails. It can chew through data pretty >>> quickly. >> >> You need to setup whatever folder(s) you want for offline reading. >> Then it will store them on the computer. > > Yeah, I looked at that but it seems that it would then download remote > content for every message. I don't want to do that, some of the weekly > emails I get, if I'm not in need of their wares that week, I delete without > reading / downloading the 'remote content'. > > Oh well, it's better than the last email client I was using until the end of > last year; Calypso 3. That is abandonware that did everything I wanted until > I needed to use SSL for one or more of the accounts I check and it doesn't > do SSL. :-( You saw my later post that you can select them manually too, right? If possible, I can see selecting the view of the messages you want to download (like unread watched for example) and then selecting them all should work pretty well (well that example is already there in Offline, but you get the idea). -- Bill Thunderbird Portable 3.0 (20091130) |