Re: Devin's effort

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Tanstaafl wrote:

> On 4/20/2015 9:57 AM, Brian Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have used Mulberry for ages and ages. Because of its imminent
>> demise, I've been learning and using Thunderbird in parallel with
>> Mulberry for about a year.
>>
>> Thunderbird can do most things that Mulberry can do, but it is
>> clumsy, slow, and more difficult to control.
>
> Again - just making claims like this without substantiation isn't very
> useful.
>
> Details would be appreciated...
>
> 1. In what way is it 'clumsy' (compared to Mulberry)?
>
> 2. Slow? Haven't noticed it - unless you mean after initially adding a
> new IMAP account with a lot of folders and emails? In that case, yes,
> until it finishes syncing all of that email, it will be slow. Work is
> being done to put a lot more of that process in the background, but for
> now, it is just recommended to let it finish syncing without trying to
> use it much, or, do like I do, and disable offline mode for all but the
> folders you really want/need in offline mode.

the very fact that it insists on syncing the entire mailstore to the local 
device rules it out for many of us.

David Lang