[Discuss] Claws Mail

[Rich Pieri]

A bit back I mentioned that I hadn't had problems with Thunderbird.
Well... I've started having problems.  It's minor stuff, really, mostly
slowdowns due to the monolithic mbox-style local mail storage that
Thunderbird uses.  Still, it has become a pain in the ass.

I've been looking at a bunch of different open source efforts.  It's
rather unfortunate that the pickings for cross-platform MUAs are so
slim.  The Macintosh options are exclusively for Macintosh.  The
Windows and Unix options use GTK+ which is great but it doesn't work
natively on Macintosh.

So, I'm going to be clever (for stupid values of "clever" :).  I'm
giving Claws Mail a try.  I'm using the Gpg4win edition on Windows and
I'll be trying the same edition on Mac using the Wineskin wrapper
tool.  I like it.  It doesn't suffer from the feeping creaturism that
has plagued Mozilla's projects.  And, importantly, it doesn't use mbox
files.  Local copies of mail are stored in the MH format.