On 11/17/2016 04:58 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:11:45 +0100 Jochen Bern Jochen.Bern@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.bern@binect.de