[kwlug-disc] Does anyone want to take over Thunderbird?

[Paul Nijjar]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 07:50:10PM -0500, Jason Locklin wrote:
> 
> 
> >- Any client that does not let me throw all my mail into a big pile
> >  easily is broken. Mutt is semi broken at this because I cannot put
> >  all my mail into one giant file; instead I can only put in mail for
> >  a couple of years at a time before mutt gets too slow to process it
> >  nicely.
> >- 
> >- Any client that does not allow me to search for mail quickly and
> >  flexibly is broken (and mutt is not that good at this for me).
> 

> It seems like the project notmuchmail that you linked to earlier is
> trying to address those issues and works with mutt. Have you tried
> it?

I have not tried it. I probably ought to, but there are a lot of
things I ought to do that I don't bother doing. That doesn't stop me
from telling other people to do these things, however!

I agree that mbox format is not ideal. Having giant mail files does
make backups easier. Maybe I should move to maildir format, though --
I only require one big pile of mail logically (as opposed to
consiously filing messages into folders, which is for people with more
cognitive capacity than me). 

- Paul 


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