On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:07:02AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote: > Thunderbird does a similar act with threading and it seems to work > pretty good. Is there any way to change the look of Mutt?
I was curious how threading compared on mutt, Thunderbird, and mail.app. A google turned up this post: http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:IQOnx2gc2_oJ:grove.ufl.edu/~dwc/archives/cat_internet.html+Thunderbird+threading+mutt&hl=en&client=firefox-a http://urlsnip.com/699033 > Since I've been away from my computers at home, I've decided to try > a couple of IMAP clients. At work, I'm trying Mozilla Thunderbird > 0.8. On my laptop, I'm trying Apple Mail 1.3.9 (v619). > Normally, I use fetchmail, procmail, and mutt. I probably get > close to 200 messages a day (mostly mailing lists), so automatic > filtering and proper threading is a must. > Thunderbird manages to get threading mostly correct, but it > sometimes places replies in the wrong place in the tree. It looks > like the threading code is basing much of its decisions on the > Subject: header, when it really should be using References: and > In-Reply-To:. It also has filtering, but I haven't tried it because > I want everything to stay in my inbox so I can download my mail > easily. > Apple Mail has very lame threading support. When you select a > message, it highlights messages in the same thread. It doesn't, by > default, group threads or let you collapse them. There is an option > to group "discussions", but it only threads one level deep. A reply > to a reply appears at the same level as the first reply. Mail also > has filtering, but I haven't tried it. > One feature of Apple Mail that I really like is the ability to > combine your IMAP folders across different accounts into one. The > contents of my overall inbox is the union of the contents of each > account's inbox. The same applies for my Sent folder and my Trash > folder. The only place you notice the fact you have multiple > accounts is when composing an email, and normally the program > chooses the right account for the From: line. > Thunderbird doesn't really make any effort to hide the fact you > have multiple accounts. You can't (as far as I can tell) combine > mailboxes so they act sensibly. You can't set a default signature > for all accounts; you have to specify one for each account. > I guess if I had to use a graphical email client, I'd probably > choose Apple Mail. But it really needs better threading support - > maybe that will come in the next version of Mac OS X. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
