[CentOS] cross-platform email client
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 18:46:38 UTC 2011
On 4/18/2011 12:58 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:22:05 +1000
> Bob Hepple<bhepple at promptu.com> wrote:
>
>> A hearty vote for sylpheed from me - http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ ...
>
> I'm using it now on Linux, briefly tested it on Windows.
>
> Thumbs-down: scanning all the folders initially takes longer than Thunderbird. Every once in a while it re-scans them, during which time the folder list is not accessible.
>
> Thumbs-up: But it does that in a more predictable way than Thunderbird, and there are no mysterious lock-ups of the UI (when it re-scans, it clearly says so, and only the folder list panel is greyed out, not the Composer or whatnot).
>
> Maybe that's what Thunderbird does - re-scans the IMAP folders, but in a more sneaky way, and it's dumb enough to put a Big Lock on the whole interface. Hmm. I opened a bug report with them:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650400
Have you tried upgrading to a current release? Usually you don't get
far reporting bugs in the many-years-old versions bundled in enterprise
OS distributions to the upstream source that moved on long ago. I
sort-of remember similar pauses in the 2.x windows version - and having
that fixed may be the reason I switched to always using
Windows/Mac/phone for email, even though I can't see a problem with the
Linux version right now. I thought the pauses had to do with indexing
for searches and switching to the threaded view which did always seem fast.
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Les Mikesell
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