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So is v5 fixed yet??
 
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Downgraded back to v4 after trying disastrous, bug-ridden V5 "upgrade". It looks like a new version (5.0.20.1) has been out for a few days with a whole mess of bug fixes. Any courageous souls try it yet? How does it look?
 
 
 
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I am using 5.0.22.2 and LOVE it. It has some bugs - there are some momentary hang ups, and it has given an error when highlighting a lot of emails for deletion that needs task manager to close the program. However this is NOT constant and is an irritation more than anything else.
 
 
 
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So finally it?s heading home. I?ll wait for two or three more versions :)
 
 
 
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At least one of the bugs I reported for the initial (AFAIK) v5 release is still there in the current one: when a single unread message exists in a real and a virtual group, "reading" it in one group leaves the other group "bolded" in the group view without any unread messages that can be seen/read.
 
 
 
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5.0.22.2 ??
 
 
 
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5.0.22.2 was an alpha version, released four days after the 5.0.20.1 release
it adressed some PGP issues
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I upgraded to v5 early-on, and it was a disaster. I waited a few more revisions, and tried it again, and it has been great.  Rock solid.  I'm a power user of TB!, and have been using it since day 1. 300+ emails/day while using at least half of the features of TB! on a regular basis.  I'm pretty impressed.  Now if there was just an OSX version!
 
 
 
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Well, the right words would be "no so disastrous as original". In my case it still crashes every day (it cannot handle to download more then 100 messages at once) and it's IMAP handling ... Let's say, far from perfect.

The bug report has been filed, several hours of testing some "beta" versions have been spent but the problem is still there.
 
 
 
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I downgraded to v4 as well early on after getting fed up with hundreds of filters being ignored.

I'll put the new version to test with a couple of email accounts and see how it goes.
Edited: mousetrapper - 23 August 2011 10:44:12
 
 
 
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So how is TBv5 doing?  I want to upgrade, but don't want to deal with a bunch of bugs.

Is TB5 ready for prime time?
 
 
 
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It works fine for me (just wish there was a manual/help to go with it) except for one bug which I had on V4 and which Ritlabs spent a lot of time trying to replicate without success so I thought I might mention it here and seee if anyone else has encountered it:

when creating a new message and tabbing from To: to CC: to Subject: the language often switched from English (UK) to Arabic (Saudi Arabia) (from the second language in my installed languages to the first).  It never changes to any of the other installed languages but this this bug is still there in 5.0.24
 
 
 
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So the answer appears to be "No" v5 is not ready for prime time.

I am running it on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. Often when I close TB, I get an Access Violation error.  That won't go away no matter how many times I click.  I then quit the app in the task manager, and TB starts to compress the folders.  

After a while I get an Out of Memory error (I have 16GB of RAM), and I can click that error all day long and it also keeps coming back. The only thing to do at this point is kill the process.

And when I restart TB, a year or so of my email is gone.

So, I restore the email for that account, and the problem happens again the next time I shut down TB. What a pain.

I really like TB, but it has always been buggy (at least during the dozen or so years I have used it).  This version seems to be worse.

If anyone has any ideas on how to prevent this, please share them.  Otherwise, I guess it's time to look for an alternative mail client.
 
 
 
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For those of you who are looking for an alternative, I have been trying Thunderbird for the last few weeks, and it seems to be going well.  No crazy Access Violation errors, and no lost email.  Sure, it does not have as many features as TB, but it works without trouble -- all the time.  And TB just doesn't on Windows 2008R2 x64 or Windows 7 x64.

If Ritlabs ever gets TB running solidly on windows x64, I will give it another try, but until then, I am gonna stick with something that works.

Michael David
 
 
 
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