Re: Devin's effort

--On Monday, April 20, 2015 04:09:10 PM -0400 Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/20/2015 2:29 PM, Bill MacAllister <[email protected]> wrote:
>> --On Monday, April 20, 2015 08:02:55 AM -0700 David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> the very fact that it insists on syncing the entire mailstore to the
>>> local device rules it out for many of us.
>
>> I find the TB behaviour odious in this respect.  Might as well just us
>> a POP client.
>
> So... disable it? It is one of the first things I disable on a fresh
> install myself...

It has taken me a while to get back to this and test it myself.  If I
understand correctly the way to disable message download is to go into
the Synchronization & Storage settings and uncheck "Keep messages for
this account on this computer."  Did that, but Thunderbird insists on
downloading all of the message headers for folders I access.  I do not
want that for a variety of reasons.  The only time that Mulberry
downloads all message headers is when I request a sort on a header
field.  And, when I quit the session the cache disappears.  Mulberry's
handling of message lists is really superior in this respect.

> Seriously - I'll wager there is at least one option in Mulberry that you
> tweak right after a fresh install, so why should TB be any different?

I never stated a problem with setting preferences, but I cannot set
them appropriately if the knob does not exist.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Tech Lead, Stanford University