Thunderbird Status Page

Owned by Jeremy Paje
Last updated: Nov 25, 2008Version comment
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Thunderbird migration status (updated 11/25/08)

Adcom - Complete

  • 100% Thunderbird

Accounting

  • Only new users are put on Thunderbird at this time

Budget

  • Only new users are put on Thunderbird at this time
  • New Budget users on Thunderbird:
    1. Martha Graciano

CEP

  • Only new users are put on Thunderbird at this time 
  • New CEP users on Thunderbird:
    1. Patricia Bras (pbras)

EHS

  • Only new users are put on Thunderbird at this time
    • EHS users on Thunderbird:
    1. Jenifer Swann (pilot user)

HPR

  •  Only new users are put on Thunderbird at this time

HR

  • Not Only new users at this time
  • HR Pilot Users on Thunderbird:
    • Susan Pihl
    • Ingrid Fahr
    • Kwame White
    • John Daly

Purchasing - Complete

  • 100% on Thunderbird

Facilities 

  • Only new users are put on Thunderbird at this time

FAC Users on Thunderbird:

  1. Gary Lane - HVAC
  2. Andrew Dale
  3. Joseph Jeves

Financial Services - 99% Complete

  • 99% Complete (1 user left:  ebdelosan)

Parking

NO Thunderbird - Parking uses Outlook.  Jennifer spoke with Clint to advise to add new e-mail accounts to NACS's es.nacs.uci.edu servers.

UCOMM

NO Thunderbird - on advancement's exchange server.

Participants in Thunderbird Pilot testing (deprecated - now converting all A&BS departments)

  • 21 users have been converted
  • Purchasing - 2
  • VC ABS - 1
  • Adcom - 10
  • EHS - 1
  • FS - 1
  • HR - 3 (with 2 pending)

Feedback

  1. Inline vs. attachment forwarding
    • There appears to be an incompatibility with the way Eudora views some Thunderbird attachments.  Example:  When using authentic to e-mail out an .xml file via Thunderbird, to a Eudora user the .xml doc shows "inline" instead of as an "attachment".  However, the attachment appears fine when checked with webmail or other with another Thunderbird client.  Only Eudora users have that issue.
    • Workaround:  Eudora users may use webmail.uci.edu to view/download the attachment separately.  This will not be an issue once everone is converted to Thunderbird.
  2.  Signatures
    • Signature handling is more complicated than Thunderbird
    • Resolution:  I will be adding a Signature Extension to the next version of thunderbird to make Signature management easier.  I've installed it for most uers already and it is listed on the Thunderbird FAQ.
  3. Tags
    • Unable to delete unused "Tags". (Allows you to mark an e-mail as important, work, etc)  If you delete a tag, it re-populates itself at next Thunderbird re-start.  You can add custom tags, but not delete pre-populated tags.
    • Resolution:  In discussion.  Because of the way autoconfig works, if we remove tags in the autoconfig, no tags will be shown for other users that log into that machine.