[Discuss] Thunderbird

[Jerry Feldman]

On 06/21/2012 11:17 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> I can't say that I've ever seen T-bird freeze like that and I've been
> using it on-and-off for-practically-evar.  My first suspicion is where
> you keep your Drafts folder.  My guess is server-side.  Network
> hiccups that would go unnoticed otherwise could cause T-bird to block
> on auto-saves.  There are also server-side issues with large,
> monolithic mbox files.  Not necessarily *your* files, just large files
> in general.
>
> I used Evolution for a while because the gig had Exchange without the
> IMAP connector.  I didn't like it.  It tries too hard to be just like
> Outlook except when it doesn't and then things get wonky.  Fixing the
> wonky took longer than I felt it was worth so I switched to a
> movemail-like fetcher run from cron or at or something (I don't
> remember how I set it up) and Thunderbird for regular mail handling.
>
> But whatever you do, stay away from Apple Mail on Lion.  It's a good
> MUA but it is a step backwards from the Leopard/Snow Leopard version
> in terms of usability.  I expect Mountain Lion's version to be even
> more iPad-like (read: less usable).
>
I don't use Apple Mail period.
One documented issue with T-Bird is that it can freeze if a folder (eg.
MBX) file is corrupted. In the past I have removed all the index files,
and both compressed and checked my folders, and I don't think it is an
issue for me. My Drafts folder is a local folder, but iMap does have its
own Drafts folder. Most of my composed email goes into the local folder.
I don't think the auto-saves are the issue, but if I start to see the
freezes again, this is another area to look at. One further symptom was
that t-Bird would lock up overnight, and when I would try to do
something, it would be frozen. My solution there was just to kill it. In
any case I have not seen any issues since the update to F17.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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