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== "seamonkey" vs "SeaMonkey" ==
==Offline folders ==
Regarding [http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Offline_folders&oldid=35632 the page Offline folders], what do you mean by "If you get all of your new mail in the inbox its much simpler to just use a message filter to automatically copy or move any new messages to a folder in the local folders directory." ? Simpler compared to what? --[[User:Chealer|Chealer]] 17:03, 18 June 2016 (UTC)


Hi Thanks for the info. I didn't know that searches are not case sensitive. [[User:Philip Chee|Philip Chee]] 14:35, 20 December 2008
:I need to reword that. I was talking about somebody who was used to a global inbox with POP accounts and wondering how to get something similar with IMAP accounts. I'll try to update the article (about half of it is still out of date, though you've removed a lot of obsolete stuff) in the next couple of days. [[User:Tanstaafl|Tanstaafl]] 21:31, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 
== working on this KB from a SeaMonkey/Linux angle ==
 
Hi.  I started using SeaMonkey on Linux, and am trying to contribute by writing up solutions to some of the problems I'm encountering.
 
I ''think'' this is the right place to put SeaMonkey docs.
*  http://www.seamonkey-project.org/dev/get-involved says to write stuff on http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ , but that's not intended for end-users.
* support.mozilla.org for SeaMonkey sends you to http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/ which suggests kb.mozillazine.org
 
=== Flagging out-of-date material ===
A lot of the information for SeaMonkey is old Mozilla Suite stuff, and a lot of the Linux information is very old.  I'm pretty sure some of the pages here for Linux are so old to be misleadingly wrong, so what's the best thing to do?  I see you took my
: '' this seems wrong''
and moved it to a talk page.  That's fine, but it is useful to both capture and indicate that a page is wrong or out-of-date without going to the extreme of having lots of user comments and recipes cluttering up wiki articles.
 
Something like [[wikipedia:Template:Out of date]] does this, so I made a simplified version, [[Template:Out of date]] and [[Make external programs in Linux use the right browser|started using it]].
 
Let me know what you think, and how else I can help.
Is there somewhere where kb editors "hang out" or discuss things?
 
-- [[User:Skierpage|Skierpage]] 02:49, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 
: This knowledge base is a good place for SeaMonkey information. SeaMonkey is considered a Mozilla application even though its being developed by the SeaMonkey community. I'm not the best person to give advice on how to update Mozilla Suite information for SeaMonkey . You might ask [[User:Alice_Wyman | Alice Wyman]], she has made tons of SeaMonkey edits and is easy to work with.
 
:There hasn't been much hanging out there for a good while, but http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base_changes is the appropriate place to have discussions about proposed changes such as new categories, general policies, or issues that effect more than one or two articles. Its also a good place to ask for advice. I suggest you ask there.
 
: We normally use <nowiki>{{update}}</nowiki> to flag articles that are out of date and <nowiki>{{cleanup}}</nowiki> to flag articles whose style/formatting is in really bad shape. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Rules/Templates
 
: There are a good number of Thunderbird articles that badly need updating for 3.* but I haven't flagged them since I suspect I'd be the only one paying attention to the flags. But perhaps its time for a wholesale review of all articles to flag them as needed. I suggest you raise that as an issue in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base_changes , and suggest what criteria and flags we use. We don't seem to have any way to distinguish between something that is out of date but still useful/accurate for popular versions of an application that have reached end of life ([[offline folders]] is still useful for Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 for example) and something that is flat out obsolete. [[User:Tanstaafl|Tanstaafl]] 03:51, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 21:34, 18 June 2016

Offline folders

Regarding the page Offline folders, what do you mean by "If you get all of your new mail in the inbox its much simpler to just use a message filter to automatically copy or move any new messages to a folder in the local folders directory." ? Simpler compared to what? --Chealer 17:03, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

I need to reword that. I was talking about somebody who was used to a global inbox with POP accounts and wondering how to get something similar with IMAP accounts. I'll try to update the article (about half of it is still out of date, though you've removed a lot of obsolete stuff) in the next couple of days. Tanstaafl 21:31, 18 June 2016 (UTC)