Re: Any other Thunderbird users have messages never post? (WAS: Hide slur?)

[J Martin Rushton]

On 18/10/17 17:38, Karlin High wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:08 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Bynow you should have realized that Mails to lilypond-user do not, as a
>> rule, get lost and reposting them several times does not help.
> 
> Would that were true for some of us Thunderbird users! (Header says
> that's what sent the messages.)
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-09/msg00260.html
> 
> I was driven to switch to the Gmail web interface. I can make it work,
> but I think I would still prefer Thunderbird.
> 
> In my experience, it is a fool's errand to try fixing problems of this
> nature. It usually means lots of research, and then telling an email
> admin something like "Your system has configuration X and it is
> causing me problems." Usually that gets a response like "We configured
> it that way because Y, and we are not changing it. Sorry about your
> email client."
> 
> But anyway, is anyone else using Thunderbird, and never having any
> lost messages at all?
> If so, is your email provider something other than Gmail, GMX, or
> Microsoft? (Microsoft meaning Hotmail, Outlook.com, etc.)
> --
> Karlin High
> Missouri, USA

Thuderbird + btinternet - though that's not much use for Missouri!  At
work I use Thunderbird + gmail and cannot say I've ever suffered from
dropped emails - yet!

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