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

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/28/2013 02:57 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> 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.
One of the things I have done in the past is to remove all the Mork 
folders and compress most of my other folders. I have 249 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.
Most T-bird users probably never knew that .msf files are Mork files. 
Most would know know because they never look into the directoies.

>
>> 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".
>
My drafts folder is currently empty. The default draft folder is the 
local folders draft.

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