On 06/03/2023 06:35, Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:26:15AM +0000, piorunz wrote:
On 05/03/2023 20:26, Russell L. Harris wrote:
Thunderbird under Debian 11 gave minor miscellaneous problems from
time to time.
Can't reproduce. If you have exact problem, please describe and/or
fill a bug.
Disclaimer: I use TB for about 10 years and don't have any
"miscellaneous problems" or "lost e-mails".
My normal email client is mutt. I forward some HTML messages to
Thunderbird and get some mail directly to Thunderbird. I do not
recall the problems, because I do not use Thunderbird for critical mail.
For me, my always-on 24/7 client is Claws Mail. It does sorting,
filtering, executing scripts on e-mail arrivals (for example Telegram
notifications), on home server computer.
TB is only to display end result and easily manage e-mail on my day to
day work PC, its interface is much more comfortable than Claws.
And Claws *may* lose entire database on sudden PC shutdown/crash.
Because files are not saved properly, or something, and some database
files inside Claws folder have 0 length upon next restart. It happened
to me once and I had to restore from backup. Very insecure! I don't know
if it is due to default settings in Claws, or something else, but no
other program I use does that. This was on RAID1 redundant Btrfs filesystem.
So yeah, I'd rather continue using TB for now as my main client.
But when Thunderbird lost a couple of messages
I did lose two or three messages which I did not delete. That
disturbed me. And that instance provided the impetus to search for an
alternative. I found Evolution, and I find it easier to use than
Thunderbird. All I am saying is that Evolution is a good alternative
to Thunderbird.
This could have been user error. But I see your point. Thanks for
sharing solution you decided to use.
I don't see major problems with TB, so I may stay with it. I
experimented with KMail last year, but it wasn't any better than TB, so
why change.
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