On Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 6:51:29 AM [GMT -0500], Marcus
Ohlström wrote:
Speaking of TB! and IMAP, I have myself considered switching to
IMAP, but I am quite afraid of the reports of mailboxes emptying
themselves. IIRC, you Allie has stumbled across this showstopper at
least two times.
This hasn't happened to me in a very long time, to the point where I
think the problem no longer exists more than it exists for POP3. As
you know, there have been reports of users losing mail while using
POP3. No system is perfect, so I can't say it will never happen to
you. Backing up is always something to do.
Do you - or anyone else - know what has been done to improve the
stability of TB!'s IMAP support?
It seems stable here at the moment, at least v3.0.2.8 that doesn't use
the newly implemented multiple connections to server. This latter
feature is supposed to improve performance and efficiency of
connections with the server but it's buggy at the moment. I'm eagerly
awaiting the new beta. I can't really say that I'm patiently awaiting
its arrival. I'm still using ThunderBird at work and wish not to. I
have a TB! license for work that I'm not using. ;)
Are there any other major showstoppers I should be aware of before
trying out IMAP? I am mainly interested in the risk of loosing
emails, small annoyances does not bother me at this stage.
I've been using it for so long that I may leave things out. The best
thing for you to do would be to try it and see what you'll personally
be missing. Additionally, TB! IMAP works differently for different
users because of the IMAP server they're using it with and the nature
of their e-mail setup, i.e., the size mailboxes they work with etc.
I had not really been having problems at home here until I decided to
read mail in a neglected account that collects mail from a couple
medically related lists. One folder contained, 18000 messages, of
while 13000 were unread. I couldn't browse with TB! because of
frequent server disconnections. I eventually fired up ThunderBird and
browsed the folder with no problems whatsoever.
Oh, I almost forgot the problem with remote outboxes. This does IMO
qualify as a major bug, sending multiple emails is almost as bad as
loosing emails.
Make you outbox local and this eliminates the problem. Doing that is
just a matter of disabling an option in the account preferences.
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. As a matter of fact, no, I don't have a life.
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