| Eric at Lucii.org on 7 Jul 2012 06:45:27 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] So, That's it for Thunderbird |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/07/2012 07:57 AM, Casey Bralla wrote: > On Saturday, July 07, 2012 7:27:47 AM Eric at Lucii.org wrote: >> This is somewhat depressing: >> >> "We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious organizational goals." >> >> http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird/ >> >> [sarcasm] Oh, GREAT [end sarcasm] >> >> I would revert to mutt but too much of my current email has some html elements that don't do so well [understatement] when rendered on a terminal. >> >> KMail? Evolution? Outlook in a VM? [spits, washes mouth out with strong soap.] >> >> What's a Linux geek to do? >> >> Eric > > > For a while, my KMail on Gentoo was crashing all the time (probably due to a library dependancy problem), so I explored other eMail clients. The bottom line to me was that KMail was far and away the best of the lot. Next best was claws, which I used until I finally ditched Gentoo in resigned disgust (it had been soooo wonderful for years). > > I also tried Thunderbird, and found it adequate, but nothing spectacular. Making it more "community maintained" might actually help. > > BTW, I'm back with Debian Testing and KMail. Ahhhhhh...... sweet relief. I was a SuSE and KDE fan for many years and used KMail extensively. Great program. At one point it failed miserably and it corrupted a bunch of mail which drove me to find a replacement. I settled on Thunderbird after several years of mutt. One aspect of moving from Thunderbird to KMail is annoying: Thunderbird used mbox while KMail uses (did?) maildir. maildir is much better (IMHO) than mbox but it appeared to be less portable between mail clients. On thing I look forward to is not having Thunderbird consume 176.4 Megabytes of RAM to write an email (this one.) That's just nuts. Thanks for the nudge - checkin' it out. Eric - -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/4PV0ACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/5BlgCcCh0yt+ycs8IedE011twOoGzc ak8AnR0HpThJk3/mKFNGIu8ZsAvVKtz5 =PMEX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug