On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:24:49 -0500, Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> michael wrote: >> I've just installed sylpheed, and I like it, although the 7000+ folders made >> it stall for a bit... Ouch that is a lot of folders. And I thought I was bad because I don't pack my inbox and am currently at message# 131929. Sylpheed tells me that I really only have 23586 messages. > > What I didn't finish investigating (via docs -- I haven't installed > it, or claws), is whether or not you safely run more than one instance > of the gui. Because all of the command-line MH state is in the > filesystem, you can run mh from as many workstations as you want, and > as long as there's only one of you, it'll be fine. Is that true of > the sylfeed/claws? A quick test of trying to start a second instance of sylpheed appears to be a nogo. even typing the command (sylpheed) at the CLI only brought the existing session to the forefront :-( One thing that I have successfully done, is use the sylpheed GUI and manipulated folders/messages outside of it via the shell command line. I've run into a few mail messages that have locked sylpheed up - so running 'rmm msg#' from the command line and restarting sylpheed has been successful. I can't remember what/who the messages were, but obviously they weren't that important to read. > (BTW, claws may be more actively maintained than sylpheed, at least > judging by changelogs on their respective sites.) Yes. I think it even lost interoperability at one point back in the past. I have *always* built sylpheed from source, and currently running 3.8.0beta1 > > paul > =---------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 56.3 degrees) > > jerry -- // Jerry Heyman | "Human beings are born with different // Amigan Forever :-) | capacities. If they are free, they are \\ // heymanj at acm dot org | not equal. And if they are equal, they \X/ | they are not free" - A. Solzhenitsyn
