[Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

[Richard Pieri]

On 3/28/2013 2:43 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> "Let me make it clear that McCusker is a complete barking lunatic.
> This is just about the stupidest file format I've ever seen."

Yep. McCusker is the inventor of the Mork format. If you look in your
cache directories you'll see a bunch of files with the msf extension.
Those are Mork files.

> In any case, I've never seen a reference to the Mork Database in cases
> where I have searched for freezes. My local Inbox is not too big, but I

Most T-bird users think Mork is a Robin Williams character.

> don't purge my sent mailbox. The freeze I usually see is that when I am
> typing, the echoing stops which does appear that the GUI is waiting on a
> lock.

This will happen if you leave the default Drafts folder for the account
or set it to a folder backed by mbox that has a large mbox file. Try
configuring the Drafts folder to use the local "account".

-- 
Rich P.