On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Jason White wrote:
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.
But then it helpfully downloads all the messages and stores them in a big huge essentially mbox file in ~ instead. Sigh.
rather, I'm running Postfix locally and using Procmail to filter the messages as they arrive.
People point and laugh at me when they see me using (al)pine. Oh, how primitive! Yeah, but I can grep for my mail, and you have to use Outhouse and rely on the sexchange sewer returning valid search results, which it doesn't do when I search for a known phrase in my mailbox and it only returns 3 copies out of the 7 I was able to find with grep. -- Tim Connors