Beware: Thunderbird (ver 3.0.1) CORRUPTS all email state

[Alex Hudson]

I don't usually throw in my 2p on subjective issues like this, but...

On 28/01/10 13:17, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Most of us really take pride in making sure what we push out to
> the community has been tested and will not be disruptive
> or destructive. Then there a small group of people that simply
> don't give a damn what they push out or the havoc they cause.
> This makes the *entire* community look like crap...
>    

I think it's a bit unfair to assume less than good faith on the part of 
other developers.

I'm running 3.0.1 right now, I run it pretty hard on some large accounts 
and with a variety of mail servers (dovecot for one). I haven't seen 
anything like this bug, on any machines I run.

I think it's super-helpful for you to point out potentially really 
horrible bugs like this, and I applaud that. But, even though I'm 
guessing every tbird 3.0.01 user you've spoken to you has told you it's 
eaten their mail, it doesn't seem to have happened here and I would bet 
there are other users for whom it's working great. I don't think this is 
a case of just "pushing out crap".

Cheers

Alex.