John, On Friday 13 October 2006 17:26, John wrote:
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Why don't you create message filters to do that automatically? FYI, KMail is painfully SLOWWWWW... Thunderbird is way faster. I don't know what you call lots of messages, but this email account has 7000+ messages markes as unread right now, and over 7200 actual emails in the Inbox... and they all are threading properly (by Subject) in Thunderbird.
Slow? KMail is performs just fine for me, and I get several hundred messages a day. I have 62 filters configured and active and monitor three SMTP accounts plus locally delivered mail. Thunderbird, on the other hand, is quite shabby in its features and human interface and is scarcely tolerable to me (I use it at work for lack of an suitable alternative under RedHat Enterprise Linux 3). By the way, threading is not something properly done by textual content of the Subject: header. It's to be done primarily based on the presense of In-Reply-To: headers. Besides, periodic archiving is not really something I want to automate, nor would it fix the problem with messages with incorrect dates. Randall Schulz