2008/11/1 Jerry Houston
On Friday 31 October 2008 23:53:30 Joe Morris wrote:
This is just a heads up. I was just trying again to find the cause of the slowness of Thunderbird to open bigger emails. A 5 meg email would take several minutes and high CPU load to open a message...
I'm glad you came up with a good solution for your email problems. I found another one that might appeal to you as well.
I read a very complimentary review of the KDE4 KMail client, and figured I'd give it a try. I've used Thunderbird for years on Windows and Linux machines, and I like it a lot, but it's got some warts that have been with us for far too long. It seemed like something else might be worth a try.
Indeed, so far, I'm thrilled with KMail. It has a cleaner UI, IMHO, and good features that are implemented well. For example, my list replies go to the list if I simply "Reply" to a list message. And the editor doesn't insert and remove newlines at random. And it doesn't keep telling me that "Thunderbird thinks this message is spam" for every weather forecast I get, despite all the times I've clicked the "not spam" button. It just seems a lot cleaner, and more intelligently put together.
You might find you like it better, too, and it's probably already installed. If you select the "leave messages on server" option, you can give it a try without interfering with your Thunderbird message store.
Kmail is great, but I use Tbird for the same reason that I use Firefox: extendability. Web browsing and email are very personalized activities, and the ability to add extensions is important. For instance, though I much prefer Kmail (and use Kontact for everything else), this extension has me married to Thunderbird: https://addons.mozilla.org/he/thunderbird/addon/594 (I cannot get the English version here) This extension lets me assign a different email address to each contact. This way I know who leaked my email address to the spammers, and I can cancel addresses that receive spam. Of course, using it like I do requires that one have their own domain name with a catchall email address. Until Kmail can do this, I am stuck on Thunderbird. Here are the two Kmail bugs: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33670 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159251 And two more that are relevant: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72926 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104071 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü N�����r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛���m�)z{.��+�Z+i�b�*'jW(�f�vǦj)h���Ǿ��i�������