[arch-general] mail client

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 02/11/2010 01:24 AM, andrew james wrote:
> i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3..  I could revert to vers 2 but
> why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish?
>
> has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause
> it to work quicker?
>
> alternatively,
>
> what is your favoured mail news client for POP3, IMAP, Syndicates, news
> groups NNTP, all in one?
>
> I want a better program.
>
>
> andrew

I've had problems with it, but not those.  My issues were:

* kept showing all the read emails in a folder as unread (solved by 
setting mail.server.default.use_condstore to false)

* hogged up CPU and disk space with indexing (solved by setting 
"Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Advanced Configuration -> Enable 
Global Search and Indexer" to off)

* showed unread folders in a weird color (solved by changes to the 
userChrome.css file)

* buttons missing from top toolbar (solved by "Help -> Migration 
Assistant -> Use original toolbar")


In other words, I wound up wasting about an entire day (!) surfing 
around the web trying to figure out how to undo all the "features" that 
they added for 3.0 that broke all the functionality that I relied on. 
(Sigh.)

Since then, though, I'm pretty fine with it.

I've still got one little peeve I haven't figured out yet:  how to 
restore the behavior where it displays a little shiny icon/indicator 
when a folder has new unread mail in it.  (Probably another tweak to the 
userChrome.css file, I'm guessing, but I don't know what OTTOMH.)

DR