I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine.
On 4/6/24 00:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine.
?
I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an
email reader that's named after a cheap wine.
In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . .
. except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception)
I've tried. I'm particularly irritated with those that have no way to
disable HTML rendering, and those that have no way to send properly
formatted plain-text-only emails, those that try to trick you into top-posting, and (especially) those mobile email readers that waste
finite processor resources by insisting on checking your email even
when closed.
Compared to that, dealing with T-Bird's imperfections is a walk in the
park.
--
JHHL
(who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force
named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine)
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
CHRIS
CHRIS@CWM030.COM
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Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size?...
or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?
I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done
reading emails.
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox
format to store emails.
It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client.
Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size?
or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?
The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1 on Windows 10. And you had
to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption.
I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done
reading emails.
Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at:
Number Of Messages: 4776
Size: 300 MB
On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote:
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox
format to store emails.
It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client.
Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the
mailbox a certain size?
or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?
The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1
on Windows 10. And you had
to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption.
I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done
reading emails.
Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at:
Number Of Messages: 4776
Size: 300 MB
I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but,
if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have
previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving
email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine,
previously known as pine.
The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show
"Total count of files: 13720
Total size of files: 24.5GB"
I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more),
involving some thousands of filter parameter field values.
....
Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
.................
(who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine)
I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emails
with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day.
On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
(who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force
named
its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine)
The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly out by 1957.
The
Ford Thunderbird _might_ predate the wine, since it came out in 1955. The email client though, no excuse for that one.
Hi Bret,
I just googled Alpine and, as y'all say in Australia... CRIKEY! i
Bret Busby wrote:
On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote:Hi Bret,
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox
format to store emails.
It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client.
Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the
mailbox a certain size?
or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?
The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1
on Windows 10. And you had
to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption.
I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done
reading emails.
Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at:
Number Of Messages: 4776
Size: 300 MB
I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but,
if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have
previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving
email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine,
previously known as pine.
The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show
"Total count of files: 13720
Total size of files: 24.5GB"
I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more),
involving some thousands of filter parameter field values.
....
Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
.................
I just googled Alpine and, as y'all say in Australia... CRIKEY! its a Terminal Email client that uses IMAP. interesting.
Chris M <CHRIS@CWM030.COM> wrote:
I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emailsClaws forwards mails with a text/html part just fine. What's your actual problem with it?
with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning
letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day.
On 4/6/24 03:25, eben@gmx.us wrote:
On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
(who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force
named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine)
The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year.
They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's
creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly out
by 1957. The Ford Thunderbird _might_ predate the wine, since it came
out in 1955. The email client though, no excuse for that one.
But, do any of them, predate the real Thunderbirds, with Lady Penelope?
alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it,
On 4/6/24 03:26, Chris M wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote:Hi Bret,
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox
format to store emails.
It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client.
Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the
mailbox a certain size?
or a certain amount of emails per folder etc?
The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1
on Windows 10. And you had
to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption.
I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done
reading emails.
Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at:
Number Of Messages: 4776
Size: 300 MB
I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but,
if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have
previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving
email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine,
previously known as pine.
The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show
"Total count of files: 13720
Total size of files: 24.5GB"
I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more),
involving some thousands of filter parameter field values.
....
Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
.................
I just googled Alpine and, as y'all say in Australia... CRIKEY! its a
Terminal Email client that uses IMAP. interesting.
And, in goggling alpine
"
Alpine supports IMAP, POP, SMTP, NNTP and LDAP protocols natively.
Although it does not support composing HTML email, it can display emails
that only have HTML content as text. Alpine can read and write to
folders in several formats, including Maildir, mbox, the mh format used
by the mh message handling system, mbx, and MIX.
"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)
So, it appears to be able to deal with your mbox thingy.
alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it, and, the
alpine mailing list includes the current named developer, and, others
who are highly knowledgeable of alpine.
And, alpine's predecessor, pine, has been around, and usable, since
before the Internet.
My current alpine email archive goes back more than 20 years. I was
using pine (and elm) on an IBM 3081 mainframe, in the early 1990's.
Bret Busby wrote:
alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it,
Hi Bret,
So you use POP 3 too huh, if your archive goes back 20 years?
I installed ALPINE and couldn't get it to connect to my server. I just
kept getting " INVALID PASSWORD"
Even though I watched a Youtube video and followed their directions to a T.
imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=chris
I tried with an app password, still errored.
Then I tried:
imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=chris@cwm030.com
used the same app password
FAILED.
Tried typing the password in manually.
FAILED.
Then I tried imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=FASTMAILUSERNAME
Typed in password.
FAILED
Then I tried imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=FMUSERNAME@FASTMAIL.COM
Typed in password by hand
FAILED.
* shrugs*
On 6/3/24 15:45, Bret Busby wrote:
On 4/6/24 03:25, eben@gmx.us wrote:
On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
(who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force
named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine)
The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year.
They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's
creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly out >>> by 1957. The Ford Thunderbird _might_ predate the wine, since it came
out in 1955. The email client though, no excuse for that one.
But, do any of them, predate the real Thunderbirds, with Lady Penelope?
You mean this series?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)
As I'm up 24/7, I never bother going "offline" in SM.
On 4/6/24 03:25, eben@gmx.us wrote:
On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
(who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air
Force named
its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine)
The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly out by 1957.
The
Ford Thunderbird _might_ predate the wine, since it came out in 1955. The email client though, no excuse for that one.
But, do any of them, predate the real Thunderbirds, with Lady Penelope?
The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year.
They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's
creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly
out by 1957. The Ford Thunderbird _might_ predate the wine, since it
came out in 1955. The email client though, no excuse for that one.
Thunderbird is the name of a cheap wine?
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