Re: [boost] Re: Proper threading (Was: Formal review of "Output Forma tters" library beginstoday )

From: Reece Dunn (msclrhd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-01 18:32:58

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> "Stefan Slapeta" <stefan_nospam__at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:cjkj7t$a8u$2_at_sea.gmane.org...
> 
>>John Torjo wrote:
>>
>>>Mozilla Thunderbird really rocks! I really recommend it.
>>
>>I can just second that! I've been using it for a long time now since
>>they released the first betas.
> 
> Last time I used Mozilla for reading newsgroups (over a year ago) if found that
> it would frequently report a particular numbers of messages as unread (the
> number would appear in parantheses after the newsgroup name) but no messages in
> my inbox would by marked as unread. I could never tell whether the reported
> number of unread messages was an error, or if there really were some unread
> messages getting lost. So I switched to Outlook.
> 
> Does Thunderbird use the same code as the Mozilla browser's news and email
> client? If so, do you know if this problem has been fixed?

I am not sure about the code base it uses, but it appears to report the 
correct number of messages in the Inbox (and the subfolders I have 
created for the various Boost threads, using the Filters feature which 
rocks!) So maybe they have fixed the problem you experienced :).

Regards,
Reece