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

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 03/28/2013 11:59 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 3/28/2013 4:48 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Thunderbird currently meets all my needs, but it occasionally freezes.
>> I've manually deleted all index files and compacted all folders, but I
>> don't think the freeze is due to a corrupted mbox folder. Converting
> It's not corrupted mbox files. It's the Mork database that T-bird uses
> for summary information that gets out of sync. This takes a long time
> with large mbox files and, since T-bird isn't threaded that way, locks
> up the UI.
Could be. The freeze I see looks like a tight loop. In any case Jamie 
Zawinski says:
"Let me make it clear that McCusker is a complete barking lunatic.
This is just about the stupidest file format I've ever seen."

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 
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.
>
> You can't convert from mbox to maildir. You have to delete the account
> (save your mail first if needed), enable maildir storage, and recreate
> the account (and import mail if needed).
>


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