So after months and months of watching TB!'s progress, waiting and hoping
IMAP would become usable enough I could return to TB!, I decided yesterday
that I would give up, unsub from the lists, and just stick to an old copy
of TB! I have lying around for my one POP account (and the only reason I
would need that is because TB! saves attachments to their own folder, a
capability I haven't come across in other MUAs).
But this morning I saw a message from Allie (aka ACM, aka Curtis, etc) on a
non-Bat list recommending that people try out IMAP on the latest release
version of TB! and that it had come a long ways (of course including a YMMV
disclaimer).
So I downloaded 3.51.10, fired it up, added two IMAP accounts, and right
out of the box, 3 showstoppers:
1) On one account, after unsubscribing from the only mailbox that had new
messages, the account's unread message count didn't change (I guess this
isn't quite a showstopper, but it certainly is annoying).
2) Using server-side filtering, TB! still doesn't know I have new messages
in folders until I've selected those folders. (Maybe there is a way around
this, but I shouldn't have to go out of my way to have my mail client check
for new messages...)
3) After deleting a few messages from a folder, selecting any message in
the message list would display the incorrect message. (Again, perhaps there
is a fix for this, but I shouldn't have to trick my mail client into
showing me the currently selected message instead of randomly selecting a
message to show me...)
I haven't spent any time playing around with IMAP Fine Tune options or
anything else because I shouldn't have to. A mail client's default settings
should be sufficient to provide basic functionality. If I have to take
extra time to try to figure out what default settings need to be changed in
order to achieve basic functionality, something is just not right.
I realize that IMAP issues are apparently supposed to be a high priority in
the present beta series. However, I believe it has been two years since
IMAP was initially implemented in TB! and it still doesn't have basic
functionality out of the box!
So, I've waited an extra day in order to give TB! another chance, but I
think it's time now to simply give up on TB! and move on. I would still
consider TB! to be a top notch POP client, but for IMAP needs, almost any
other IMAP-capable MUA could exceed TB's performance.
Before I unsub, I just want to thank the TBUDL & TBBETA communities for all
the help and assistance you have been over the years in answering
questions, overcoming problems, and making my TB experience much better and
more useful than it otherwise would have been.
--
Dave
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