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Reviews for Thunderbird Conversations
574 reviews for this add-on
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This is a fantastic addon and makes my daily email a pleasure! The one feature I'd really like to see added is the ability to be able to delete email attachments from within conversation view. This doesn't seem possible at present and involves having to first open messages using "view using classic reader". Thanks for the great addon!
Edit: I hadn't noticed this. That's great. Ideally I'd like to see a "delete" option next to the "preview | open | save" commands.
I thought there was the right-click menu (on the attachment icon) that allowed you to do just that?
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
...there is one thing that ist a bit annying to me:
I have a lot of email accounts. Some of them I use very often, but most of them I only use from time to time. When I get a new email notification and click on it, I am being asked to enter my username and password for every account. It would be fine, if that only happened for the accounts where I have the "check for messages on startup" checked in the server settings - or for the accounts, which I am currently logged in.
On the other side, this is a very great and helpful add-on! Thank you for this.
Ruediger
I suspect that's not related to my addon. However, disabling the unified inbox (View > Folders > All in the menus) may help.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
With the latest release on Feb 18, 2013, this addon is incorrectly grouping the threads. How to replicate:1. select an email except the latest received one.2. hit reply.3. the reply window will take the latest email instead of the selected email.
Reinstalled the version. The bug seems to have gone.
Can you make sure you are using version 2.6.3?
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent Add-on! Such an improvement!
Also this does work with the latest version of thunderbird, you just need to download the file and select "Install Add-on from file"
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I was using ThreadVis before but this is way better!
Thanks a lot!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Update [2/11/2013]
My mistake. It's just that out of the box Thunderbird is great but Thunderbird Conversations is what makes it Outstanding!
Thanks for taking the time to clarify this =)
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Why isn't the latest version of this add-on compatible with the latest version of Thunderbird?I'm running Thunderbird v17.0.2 [the latest stable version of TB] yet the latest version of Thunderbird Conversations is only compatible with Thunderbird v19.0 - 21.0 and above.
Because it's just a compatibility fix for the beta versions of Thunderbird, and it brings no new features compared to 2.5.2.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Improves Thunderbird immeasurably!
A new version was just downloaded, however, and I don't see any information anywhere about what has changed. Am I missing it?
Hi, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/ near the bottom there is a section "version information"
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
It does a good job of initiating and hitting all the settings for threaded views. However, it fails to include the "sent mail" folder (or it seems it has trouble with any time an email is outside of the inbox). This makes it a partial unfortunately. The concept of threading a conversation is for me to be able to put the message within ANY folder of that IMAP account and have it known where it is, but retain the linkage between them.Hoping there is an update soon to fix this. Great initial work!
edit: update. So it appears that if I am in "all folder view", the threading works as expected. However, when I am in "unified" view, the "master" inbox works correctly, however, the sub inboxes (those specific to a particular account) do not accurately thread the messages, and they are often missing pieces of the thread, not just from sent mail, but other areas as well sometimes. I've also noticed that at times it "threads" completely unrelated messages together that do not even have the same subject line or distribution list on them.
I appreciate everything the developer has done to date and am hoping they can work out the kinks to really bring it in line with Google's conversation view!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
全局收 / 发件箱是多好的东西啊?! 还有默认情况下 Thunderbird 显示远程内容还要添加联系人的设定, 点到手软好嘛?! 现在烦恼全都没了, 爽... 虽然更改了一些 Thunderbird 的设定和界面, 但是是值得的!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.2).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This addon is very important for me and probably the best one for thunderbird. There is a small problem I have started seeing offlate. Not sure what triggered it, everytime I open Thunderbird, I get the First run assistant Pop-up. Even though I click on "Review changes" or "Apply changes", nothing happens and the pop-up again shows up the next time I open Thunderbird. This is TB 17.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04.
Edit - Uninstalled and installed it back and the problem seems to have gone.
Is Thunderbird shutting down properly? Which version of the addon are you running? (You may want to upgrade to the latest one.)
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
The extension looks great but has a serious annoying problem that I have no idea how to remedy.I've read the reviews, I've read the faq's I've not seen this anywhere and I have no desire to open a github account to post an issue or bug.Here is the issue explained and show in a video.http://youtu.be/pRPDIdScbn0The video is unlisted and will only be seen via this thread.
Thank you for the reply.
This is a bug in the Thunderbird code that surfaces badly in Conversations: see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646225 for all the details (this is the faq item called "a message is grouped with another unrelated conversation"). Unfortunately, there is no fix in sight.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is one of the addons which should come with thunderbird preinstalled!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.2).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This addon is the best TB addon ever, without doubt! If I want to donate some addons someday, this would be first.
Using this addon I can easily track my conversations and realize in response to what email I received/sent this email, without the need to go between Inbox & Sent folders repetitively. It's preferences is also very versatile. For example I don't like its default message body font tweak and I could easily cancel that to original TB font.
Using this addon you can see your threads easily, both in threads pane and in message pane. Plus you can see the thread messages in new tab both as part of the conversation using this addon and separately in the traditional view.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
You are a genius. This add-on really gives my Thunderbird the Gmail conversation view. The only issue is that I can't figure how to open the messages in windows instead of tabs (even after I choose "open messages in a new window" in TB options).
In any case, thank-you very much for sharing this.
Hi,
Opening a conversation in a new window is a indeed something that does not work with the current version. It would require a fair bit of work to make it happen; I'm doing this on my free time, which unfortunately means I can't afford to work full-time on this; so unless someone steps up and contributes a patch, there's little chance that opening a conversation in a separate window will work anytime soon, unfortunately.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Wonderful add-on. Makes life better. Thanks.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.2).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This is a real cool AddOn! Thank you for creating it!
I used it today for the whole day and won't switch it off again, but there is a show stopper for me: TNEF encoded email attachments are displayed as winmail.dat. The AddOn LookOut (which converts the TNEF format) will not work anymore, when I activate Conversations. Could you please have a look onto this? Thanks.
Hi,
At some point the author of LookOut and I tried to work out something together, but it never really went past preliminary talks. I have a plugin infrastructure that other addons (Enigmail, Lightning) use to interact with me. I would gladly welcome a patch and/or contribution from the LookOut author if the plugin infrastructure doesn't satisfy them!
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great add-on. I can't go back to the original view now. Two suggestions:
- The one thing I miss from the old view is the "detach" option to save and delete attachments in one step.
- With this add-on, reading and deleting emails is slooooow. Hopefully it can be made swifter in future releases.
First item : use right-click to access the detach operation
Second item : unfortunately the underlying subsystem in Thunderbird that this addon relies on has some performance limitations...
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
If enabled, it's not possible to open messages in a new window (Thunderbird 17, Conversations 2.5.2)
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.5.2).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I use it in a production environment, with tons of everydays mail: it is a real life savior! Despite of two annoyances it is perfect!
1. About once a week plugin starts to include a random emails to the threads - it requires just to restart TB.
2. Conversations, starting from 50 mails long - are opens very slow.
But I'm sure i will get better! :)
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
After few amazing days with this addon, it stopped working, it is not possible to reply to emails AT ALL. when I disable it, the mail gets send without a problem. When it's enabled, it hangs at "delivering mail" and then I get this:
"Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server smtp.gmail.com timed out. Try again or contact your network administrator."
conversations 2.5.2, thunderbird 14, linux mint debian,
please help because your addon is really really useful
edit:
it's a duplicate of a reported bug (having image as a signature): https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View/issues/644
Can you head over to the bug tracker at https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View/issues and open an issue there? Thanks, jonathan
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