torhu n...@spam.invalid wrote in news:iehd51$2gl...@digitalmars.com:
On 16.12.2010 14:39, Justin Johansson wrote:
Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader.
I suppose the real problem is that almost noone cares about newsgroups,
so don't expect any improvements in
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:24:14 +0100
torhu == torhu n...@spam.invalid wrote:
torhu Thunderbird is pretty buggy, but I haven't found a good
torhu replacement, at least not yet.
Although I may be guilty of repeating myself, but I'll, again,
recommend Claws-mail which serves as newsreader as well
torhu n...@spam.invalid wrote in message
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Thunderbird is pretty buggy, but I haven't found a good replacement, at
least not yet. I regularly experience to annoying dataloss bugs. The
first is when TB messes up posts. This is easily fixed by making it
- Thunderbird apparently has *data loss/corruption* issues, and yet it's
very popular.
- OE *doesn't* have data loss/corruption issues, and yet it's widely
looked-down upon.
So what's wrong with this picture?
I've never used OE as, well, I preferred Thunderbird, however I've never
experienced
sybrandy sybra...@gmail.com wrote in message
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- Thunderbird apparently has *data loss/corruption* issues, and yet it's
very popular.
- OE *doesn't* have data loss/corruption issues, and yet it's widely
looked-down upon.
So what's wrong with this picture?
On 18.12.2010 19:40, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
torhun...@spam.invalid wrote in message
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I don't mean to sound like an Outlook Express evangelist constantly banging
an OE drum, but I've been using OE for years and never had any issues like
that. Which
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:41:05 -0800
Walter == Walter Bright wrote:
Walter I prefer to have control over my email database, and not rely
Walter on some remote server that may go dark at any moment, or that
Walter may sell my email database to anyone.
I agree...that's why I fetch my mail with
On 12/16/10 07:39, Justin Johansson wrote:
Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader.
My experience with Thunderbird is that it is not of a standard of
distinction that one would hope for in 2010 coming 2011.
For one thing, and perhaps this is a newsgroup server
On 17/12/10 13:05, Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat less annoying than
Thunderbird's.
OE cannot back up or transfer its message database. That killed it for me.
Email clients and newsgroup readers are different things. So while I
On 12/16/2010 08:39 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader.
In general I am happy with it. It has a couple of minor bugs or a
feature missing that I want, but there's a lot that it does right.
(Thanks to the person who recommended the
On 18/12/10 13:41, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 12/16/2010 08:39 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
Aside from that issue, my experience with Thunderbird is that it is not
particularly innovative in drawing my attention to the high-traffic
topics apart from telling me that one-or-more responses are
On 16.12.2010 14:39, Justin Johansson wrote:
Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader.
My experience with Thunderbird is that it is not of a standard of
distinction that one would hope for in 2010 coming 2011.
I suppose the real problem is that almost noone cares
On 18/12/10 15:24, torhu wrote:
I suppose the real problem is that almost noone cares about newsgroups,
I suspect you are right; newsgroups are probably considered by most
developers as legacy media (not that legacy has to mean bad though)
and accordingly any development for newsgroup
Justin Johansson wrote:
Email clients and newsgroup readers are different things. So while I can
understand that one would want to have control of their email message
database (as in ease of backup/import/export etc), when it comes to
newsgroup messages the repository is maintained by the
On 18/12/10 17:08, Walter Bright wrote:
Justin Johansson wrote:
Email clients and newsgroup readers are different things. So while I
can understand that one would want to have control of their email
message database (as in ease of backup/import/export etc), when it
comes to newsgroup messages
Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader.
My experience with Thunderbird is that it is not of a standard of
distinction that one would hope for in 2010 coming 2011.
For one thing, and perhaps this is a newsgroup server problem, but I
doubt it, my Thunderbird client
I'm using Thunderbird, but it's pretty much the only newsreader I've
ever had so can't really compare it with others. But I use the following
extensions to improve my experience:
QuoteCollapse:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/347/
Not directly related with newsreading but
Justin Johansson nore...@jj.com wrote in message
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Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader.
My experience with Thunderbird is that it is not of a standard of
distinction that one would hope for in 2010 coming 2011.
For one
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:39:15 +1100
Justin == Justin Johansson wrote:
Justin Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent
Justin newsreader.
I use Claws-mail as mailer, news reader, rss reader...and I'm more
than happy with it.
Sincerely,
Gour
--
Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG
I personally like it a lot, though I haven't tried any other news
readers on Linux. I think the biggest reason I like it is the fact that
it's the same regardless of what platform it's on and I also like the
arrangement of the windows.
Overall, I've been quite happy with it.
Casey
On 17/12/10 06:34, Gour wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:39:15 +1100
Justin == Justin Johansson wrote:
Justin Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent
Justin newsreader.
I use Claws-mail as mailer, news reader, rss reader...and I'm more
than happy with it.
Sincerely,
Gour
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:06:20 -0500, sybrandy wrote:
I personally like it a lot, though I haven't tried any other news
readers on Linux. I think the biggest reason I like it is the fact that
it's the same regardless of what platform it's on and I also like the
arrangement of the windows.
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:39:15 -0500, Justin Johansson nore...@jj.com
wrote:
Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader.
My experience with Thunderbird is that it is not of a standard of
distinction that one would hope for in 2010 coming 2011.
For one thing, and
VIM users should be pretty psyched about this thing:
http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html
Although it doesn't seem to work for Windows yet so I haven't tested
it myself. :/
On 12/16/10, piotrek star...@tlen.pl wrote:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:06:20 -0500, sybrandy wrote:
I personally like
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:11:15 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
VIM users should be pretty psyched about this thing:
http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html
That looks pretty cool! But for some reason the web page calls it an
interface to GMail, even though it seems to use IMAP. Can anyone
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat
less annoying than Thunderbird's.
OE cannot back up or transfer its message database. That killed it for me.
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat less annoying than
Thunderbird's.
OE cannot back up or transfer its message database. That killed it for me.
Yea, that
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat less annoying than
Thunderbird's.
OE cannot back up or transfer its message database. That killed it
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Oh, I thought you were saying that the whole problem was just the whole
proprietary storage format and that there wasn't a way to migrate to/from
another email program. It *is* possible to backup and restore OE's DB, it
just doesn't have a simple option for it through
On Thursday 16 December 2010 21:37:11 Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Oh, I thought you were saying that the whole problem was just the whole
proprietary storage format and that there wasn't a way to migrate to/from
another email program. It *is* possible to backup and restore
Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Using IMAP solves the problem, since then the mail is safely on a server
somewhere rather on your own computer. It also has the advantage of making it
possible to sync state between machines. It does mean, however, that you have to
be deal with an e-mail account which
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