mozilla – Accidents Happen https://ah.thameera.com In the dark Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:41:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 56521109 Gmail with Thunderbird https://ah.thameera.com/gmail-with-thunderbird/ https://ah.thameera.com/gmail-with-thunderbird/#respond Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:41:13 +0000 http://noisythameera.wordpress.com/?p=244 I’d been dealing with my work-related mail with Mozilla’s Thunderbird for a few weeks. For the personal Gmail account, it was the good old webapp. For a change I hooked the Gmail account with Thunderbird to see how things would go. It had trouble authenticating the Google account, but then remembered about the 2-step verification so created an application-specific password to make it work.

The experience is better than I’d imagined. It’s quite handy being able to open mail in tabs. There are hundreds of add-ons to choose from. Especially, the Conversations add-on is a must. It’s smarter than Gmail’s conversation view. For example, if you get code broken into separate git patches like [PATCH 1/7], [PATCH 2/7] etc, they appear as separate threads in gmail. But this add-on groups all related patches to a single tree of conversation with branches. Clever! Guess I’d be sticking with this for the foreseeable future.

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