Re: Devin's effort

--On Monday, April 20, 2015 08:02:55 AM -0700 David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

+1

I find the TB behaviour odious in this respect.  Might as well just us
a POP client.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
System Programmer, Stanford University