[arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 19:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:36 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote:
> > On 12/17/2009 07:20 AM, Dan Martins wrote:
> > > I believe that the messages need to be indexed before you will get the
> > > new thread summary view, or whatever you want to call it.
> > 
> > yeah exactly my suspecion.  Looks like i never get a stable index here. 
> > probably because
> > 1) i have over 120K messages
> > 2) i disabled their new offline sync thing
> > which both is likely an supported use case.
> > 
> > unfortunately i can't reach their bugzilla.  times out...
> > 
> Ah, that would explain it, I also have 'download messages for offline'
> unselected. Doesn't make sense for me who already keeps the mail in a
> local maildir to have thunderbird download a second copy from my local
> dovecot...
> 
Just checked, this was indeed the issue. Thinking a bit more about it, I
think its just to be expected that if the mails aren't stored locally we
wouldn't be able to get summary of body content? Wonder whether raising
a bug would do anything more than blow hot air....