On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:46:38 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/18/2011 12:58 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:22:05 +1000 Bob Hepplebhepple@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:
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.
I'm on the most recent version (3.1.0) on my fedora w/s and it has the same lock-up 'feature'. It doesn't really bother me much, but my IMAP server is on the local net therefore pretty quick. Actually, even working from home with the IMAP server being at the end of a sometimes busy interweb thingy, it doesn't _really_ bother me - although it can be noticable.
Cheers
Bob