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  • Thunderbird: The way I like it

    Posted on Oct. 24, 2006 at 23:36 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    During my recent moving around between Mail.app and Thunderbird I discovered some extensions for the Mozilla mail. Only one of the extensions I'm currently using in Thunderbird has been in my list for quite some time, the others are new to me, but could become the features that will hold me with Thunderbird for the next couple of years ;)

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  • If I could just make up my mind

    Posted on Oct. 22, 2006 at 18:40 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    ... I guess I will write again in a month or so and tell you how my moving around between mail clients actually ended ... Since yesterday night, I've been messing around with Thunderbird again and I really love how fast it is and so on, but I'm missing the threaded view of Mail.app :-( The whole sorting in Thunderbird simply doesn't work the way I want it to. So to prevent the whole n*10^4-messages-inbox problem, I've now started cleaning up my Gmail account and plan to only keep in my inbox (in whatever client I'm going to end up with) only what I really think is necessary. Everything else will be deleted the moment I see it or will be moved to an archive folder (if I think it might come in handy in the future). So the inbox will be nothing more than a queue ;)

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  • First day with Mail.app ...

    Posted on Oct. 21, 2006 at 23:03 +0200 Tagged with ,

    ... and back to Thunderbird. I really tried to use Mail.app, I really did. I also installed bundles like MailTags, Act-On etc. but my main problem with Mail.app is its performance with huge mailboxes. Sure, it definitely has the advantage of the more robust storage system (at least I guess it should be more robust), but this doesn't help me if it takes about a minute to open my inbox when I was just viewing a different folder. mbox has definitely the advantage on the speed side, but I would never have imagined that it would be so huge. In Thunderbird everything is still more or less instantaneous although I have mails in my main inbox dating back to 2003 (deleted everything else quite some time ago ;-)). My testing wasn't completely fair, though, since in Thunderbird I created folders for various mailinglists with the largest having around 16,000 mails in it, and moved these mails out of the inbox, so the inbox itself is smaller in Thunderbird than it is in Mail.app.

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  • Mail.app as alternative to Thunderbird?

    Posted on Oct. 21, 2006 at 00:05 +0200 Tagged with , , , , ,

    For the last couple of days (actually since I noticed, that Mail.app is now finally able to work with Socks5 proxies) I started considering Apple's Mail.app as an alternative for Mozilla Thunderbird for my daily mail usage.

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