Thunderbird Extensions

December 30, 2004 12:48 PM

Thunderbird Extensions: I love thunderbird, but I miss OE's ability to download lots of stuff from binary groups. I used to like being able to click on ten subjects lines and it woiuld download the lot, while thunderbird only gets the most recently clicked, and seems to attempt to redownload every time you select a subject line. Any suggestions?
posted by twine42 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

If you're interested in downloading stuff from binary groups, I'd recommend the freeware GrabIt. It makes downloading multiple binary files a breeze. Much easier than either OE or Thunderbird.
posted by filmgoerjuan at 1:37 PM on December 30, 2004

i didn't see anything relevant there, but there are lotza neat toys on this extensions page. it's been forever since i used agent, but i loved it.
posted by moonbird at 5:43 PM on December 30, 2004

Response by poster: The problem is that I hate Agent. And Xnews.

I may have a partial answer to my own question - highlight the posts and tell it to copy them to a local folder.

Any less clunky alternatives are welcome.

And, yes, I'll go look at Agent again too...
posted by twine42 at 5:08 AM on December 31, 2004

If I could suggest an alternative reader as well, PowerGrab is a phenomenal tool for it -- I've tried a lot of the more popular ones, and they all seem to be geared at downloading images as a first design goal, and everything else second, whereas PG is just easy to use for all of it.

Very fast, too, and practically bug-free (it's no TeX, but few apps are)
posted by ChrisR at 8:35 AM on December 31, 2004