On 08/02/2015 06:40 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 02/08/15 23:41, Stephen Coakley wrote:
>> Thunderbird works great for reading nested replies and past archives,
>> but replying has about a 50% chance of success for me. Oh well.
>
> I'm up to 24Gb of history over some 20 years and despite attempts by
> some developers to mess it up, Thunderbird does the job reasonably well.
> I'd prefer to be back on Seamonkey, but that has lost the ability to
> handle so big an archive, and in trying to 'keep up' with Firefox and
> Thunderbird it's no longer providing what a single suite used to
> provide. But then my Linux desktop fills in the gaps so I don't need
> Thunderbird to have a bloody calendar or Firefox to muscle in on the
> same space. Thunderbird does reliably handle emails in and emails out
> without a problem, and I don't need to go on-line to read the traffic,
> ore scan the history ...
>
I don't mean to sound rude, but when have you ever *needed* to access a
really old message while simultaneously not having Internet access? I
just can't imagine needing to do such a thing. Not saying it's wrong for
you to do so.
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> On 02/08/15 23:41, Stephen Coakley wrote:
>> Thunderbird works great for reading nested replies and past archives,
>> but replying has about a 50% chance of success for me. Oh well.
>
> I'm up to 24Gb of history over some 20 years and despite attempts by
> some developers to mess it up, Thunderbird does the job reasonably well.
> I'd prefer to be back on Seamonkey, but that has lost the ability to
> handle so big an archive, and in trying to 'keep up' with Firefox and
> Thunderbird it's no longer providing what a single suite used to
> provide. But then my Linux desktop fills in the gaps so I don't need
> Thunderbird to have a bloody calendar or Firefox to muscle in on the
> same space. Thunderbird does reliably handle emails in and emails out
> without a problem, and I don't need to go on-line to read the traffic,
> ore scan the history ...
>
I don't mean to sound rude, but when have you ever *needed* to access a
really old message while simultaneously not having Internet access? I
just can't imagine needing to do such a thing. Not saying it's wrong for
you to do so.
--
Stephen Coakley
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