On 11/17/2016 04:58 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:11:45 +0100 Jochen Bern <jochen.b...@binect.de> wrote: >> Plaintext or HTML mails? > > I like the ability to see some sort of representation of the links in > incoming HTML email. I would never send HTML email.
Not quite sure what you mean with "representation" of links ... in most cases of *human typed* HTML e-mails, there's a MIME multipart/alternative text/plain part where links' URLs appear as part of the text. However, generating the plaintext part is done by the *senders'* MUAs, your own merely decides over whether the URL is recognized as such and made *clickable*, rather than needing to be copy-pasted into your browser. >> I switched from tkRat (a.k.a. ratatosk) to Thunderbird when I had a >> need to do "detached IMAP" (and tkRat repeatedly trashed my entire >> INBOX when I tried). > > Did the corruption happen when you messed with it to try to work > offline, or do you mean that usage during failure to connect caused > corruption? Did it corrupt the IMAP you were trying to connect to, or > just a cache? It had official support for the setup (might even be where I saw the term "detached IMAP"). Never had a problem with it and the original (online) IMAP mode, but within ... a little less than a year IIRC after switching, I found the server-side INBOX *completely empty* thrice. (While being connected to the server, of course.) > I have over 620K emails in over 1000 folders. This turns Thunderbird > into an all day affair, just to refresh its caches. Yeah, I can see that. I'm at about 1/6 of that, thanks to moving busy folders' back-years *off* the IMAP server and into Thunderbird-style "Local Folders" (which then can be copied to several places, as they supposedly do not *change* anymore). Takes TB a couple hours to resync when the cache has a problem - luckily, it does so in the background, and I tend to spend entire workdays sitting in just *one* place. Note that TB *does* have controls to limit the local cache by age and message size, though. And that you can disable the local cache on a folder-by-folder basis. Kind regards, -- Jochen Bern Systemingenieur Fon: +49 6151 9067-231 Fax: +49 6151 9067-290 E-Mail: jochen.b...@binect.de
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