Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
I find TB on the whole to be the best MUA -- but when it gets stuck on downloading mail, I just switchover to Squirrel mail so it can continue on without frustrating me too much.
The one thing that is most lacking with TB is actual mail storage options, I really want TB to use storage like offline IMAP..... that would help a great deal.
Another problem with TB is that it won't read /var/mail/$USER or any other mbox or maildir folder for incoming messages. It assumes you have a client/server arrangement where the MTA is running on another machine, which is precisely not my configuration. rather, I'm running Postfix locally and using Procmail to filter the messages as they arrive. Now I'm not looking for a GUI MUA, but if I were, and if I wanted to run TB, I'd have to run a local IMAP daemon such as Dovecot just so that TB could read incoming messages. This all suggests to me that it was designed under the assumptions of the PC world rather than those of the UNIX world, where people sometimes choose to run an MTA locally.