Re: Thunderbird Group Limitation?

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

Fyi, I'm using Thunderbird 6.0.2 with Lightning extension (not plugin) 
and it works just fine.

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On 9/9/2011 7:42 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> Jerry,
>
> The answer to your question is, no there is not a limit on how many
> (certainly more than 50) contacts can be in a group.  My first thought
> is to be sure you are running a more current copy of Thunderbird, at
> least 5.0, that's what I use.  Thunderbird 6.0 does not support the
> current version of Lightning, the calendar plug in.
>
> If you are synchronizing your contacts with another source, such as
> Google Mail, then the synchronization program may be the problem because
> the update on the other end does not work.  I have had that happen
> several times.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
>
>
> On 9/9/2011 9:30 AM, Bob Crothers wrote:
> > Jerry,
> >
> > I run several groups with differing levels of activity, all using Google
> > Groups:http://groups.google.com/
> >
> > It is easy and it's free!  Not suitable for Midrange.com, but for a list of
> > a couple hundred it is great!
> >
> > Bob Crothers
> > www.BJsBariatrics.Com
> > ------------------------------------------
> > “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
> > miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
> > - Michelangelo
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Jerry C. Adams<midrange@xxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> >
> > > >   I maintain a mailing list for my old high school class in Thunderbird.  My
> > > >   ISP considers any email with>   fifty [50] CC: and BCC: entries to be spam
> > > >   so
> > > >   I broke the list down into several groups.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   When we find an old alum, I add them as a contact and then try to copy them
> > > >   to one of the groups (I have four [4] so far).  Occasionally, though, even
> > > >   though it looks like the contact was copied to the seledcted group (no
> > > >   error
> > > >   messages), the contact does*not*  get added.  So Itry another group and the
> > > >   copy usually works - eventually.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   I was just wondering if TBird has a limit to the number of contacts that
> > > >   can
> > > >   be part of a group?  I keep the list at home and am at work right now, so I
> > > >   can't count the number of contacts in each group until this weekend.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   Jerry C. Adams
> > > >
> > > >   IBM i Programmer/Analyst
> > > >
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> > > >
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