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David Ascher set one of David Ascher's replies as an official response to "how to synchronize TB 3 calendar with Gmail server" in Mozilla Messaging

A comment on the question "Unwanted Thunderbird Message" in Mozilla Messaging:

Oh, no, not pop quizzes, please! ;-) – David Ascher, on December 18, 2009 06:02

David Ascher replied on December 18, 2009 04:08 to the question "most add ons are not compatible with thunderbird 3.0" in Mozilla Messaging:

The Lightning team is hard at work on a 1.0b1 release, which will be on the addons.mozilla.org site as soon as it's ready.

If you want to try a pre-beta build in the meantime, see http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_me...

David Ascher replied on December 18, 2009 03:20 to the question "reinstalling earlier version" in Mozilla Messaging:

To be clear -- TB2 users shouldn't have been automatically asked if they wanted to upgrade to TB3 -- that was a bug in the update system that affected about 1% of our users.

There will likely be regular security updates to TB2 in the coming months, just fixing security bugs, and which will behave just like every other update you've seen in the last few years.

When we feel that TB3 has had enough of the migration issues addressed, then we'll do a "prompted major update" where we'll let TB2 users know about the new version. We won't do that until we feel we've reached enough add-on compatibility, etc.

Hope this helps clarify how we do updates!

David Ascher replied on December 18, 2009 01:23 to the question "how to synchronize TB 3 calendar with Gmail server" in Mozilla Messaging:

You want the GData provider extension for Lightning (check in the appropriate directory in ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ ) for the "gdata" file.

David Ascher set one of David Ascher's replies as an official response to "Unwanted Thunderbird Message" in Mozilla Messaging

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 23:59 to the question "Unwanted Thunderbird Message" in Mozilla Messaging:

There's an easier way to stop showing the start page:

open the Preferences dialog, and in the General tab, uncheck the checkbox in the "Thunderbird Start Page" area.

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 22:51 to the question "How do i disable archiving in thunderbird 3.0?" in Mozilla Messaging:

Himanshu -- I'm assuming you're on Windows, and you're referring to the little "toast" dialog? Is that it?

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 22:44 to the question "Is Thunderbird a way to rid Gmail of Conversation View?" in Mozilla Messaging:

Yes, there are many people who read their gmail with Thunderbird so they can see things in chronological order. You can try thunderbird with gmail, and it defaults to IMAP, so that you can give it a look, and if you don't like it, your emails will still be in gmail unchanged. Give it a try!

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 22:39 to the question "shortcut "get mail" arrow" in Mozilla Messaging:

Nostalgy should get updated pretty soon, as I know the author has been tracking Thunderbird 3 development. I'll check with him.

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 22:36 to the question "How do i disable archiving in thunderbird 3.0?" in Mozilla Messaging:

Marc: I'm not sure what you're saying -- the only time mails should show up in the Archive folder if you're using GMail is if you archive them either in Thunderbird or in Gmail. Are you seeing something else?

Himanshu: Archiving doesn't delete messages -- Archiving in Thunderbird will move the message to the All Messages area in Gmail, as if you were hitting the archive button in Gmail.

I think replacement sparrow answered thirdeye773's problem -- If Marc and Himanshu could post new questions detailing exactly what's going on that they're not expecting, that'd be easier for to make sure we track everything down.

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 22:28 to the question "shortcut "get mail" arrow" in Mozilla Messaging:

I've updated the status.

There's no keyboard shortcut for the arrow.

It seems that there may be a bug whereby Ctrl-T is doing what Ctrl-Shift-T is doing.

I've filed a bug on this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug...

David Ascher set one of David Ascher's replies as an official response to "Scrollbar and entire right portion of tbird truncated after upgrade to 3.0" in Mozilla Messaging

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 21:32 to the problem "Scrollbar and entire right portion of tbird truncated after upgrade to 3.0" in Mozilla Messaging:

Yes, there's a bug whereby the large number of icons in the toolbar, combined with the "text alongside the button", is making the toolbar too long. To work around it, do:

1) right-click on the toolbar, select "customize"
2) change the popup menu on the bottom right to read "Icons and Text" (or any other setting you like).

That should fix it, let me know if it doesn't.

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 21:27 to the question "No sound on e-mail arrival on Mac OS X 10.4 with Thunderbird 3.0" in Mozilla Messaging:

Hmm -- my next troubleshooting tip would be to see what happens if you change the sound it's trying to play? Also, what happens if you hit the Play button in the preferences dialog?

A comment on the question "Where is "REPLY WITH ..." in Thunderbird?" in Mozilla Messaging:

thanks for pointing those out. – David Ascher, on December 17, 2009 21:23

David Ascher marked one of MrC's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. MrC replied to the question "Where is "REPLY WITH ..." in Thunderbird?".

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 21:22 to the question "2.0 witout smart options" in Mozilla Messaging:

I think you're asking where to get Thunderbird 2: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozil...

David Ascher replied on December 17, 2009 21:13 to the question "How do I reinstall thunderbird, have IMAP setup and not have the client redownload all the emails again" in Mozilla Messaging:

If you've got the email messages downloaded to your profile, and you just upgrade Thunderbird 3, it should detect that the messages are there and not download them again.

David Ascher marked one of MrC's replies in Mozilla Messaging as useful. MrC replied to the question "change text formats".