Thunderbird

[James McDonald]

Vu Pham wrote:
> Vu Pham wrote:
>> I have been using Evolution with imap server for about two years. 
>> Recently when the mailbox grows ( not sure if it is the culprit or 
>> not ) sometimes, about once or twice a day, Evolution shows me the 
>> error "cannot ping the mail server" and  then I either have to close 
>> the box and manually click send/receive to make it work again, or I 
>> have to use pkill to close it.
>>
>> Two days ago I started using Thunderbird as an alternative, and so 
>> far I am so happy with it. I have not seen any email connection problem.
>>
>> Not sure if anybody experiences that same ping problem with Evolution 
>> or just me.  Maybe my Evolution settings is not correct.
>>
>
> Thanks for all your replies. It is interesting to see that some are 
> really happy with Thunderbird, some with Evolution. I think I am going 
> to stick with Outlook, oops I mean Thunderbird  :)) at this moment 
> until it start givng me errors.
>
Only thing I have found with Thunderbird... is when you create filters 
under an IMAP configuration. Tbird creates thousands of temp files in 
/tmp this is marked as a bug but they haven't fixed it as yet.

This is not a show stopper but annoying. (so many files that you can't 
just run rm -f tmprules*.dat).