[pmmail-list] Leaving PMMail for Thunderbird

[Ben Coleman]

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Tim Roberts wrote:
| Well, folks, after a 5-year run with PMMail, I find that I can no longer
| put up with the inferior (and unchanging) support for valid MIME
| structures and reasonably formatted e-mail.  I'm switching today to
| Thunderbird.  Even though it is only at version 0.4, it is already a
| winner, as far as I can tell.  My only complains are with performance,
| and that will only improve as time goes on.

You're not the only one.  For me, it was the lack of ongoing support for
~ MIME structures (for at least one poster to the local Linux mailing
list, the body of his message always shows up as an attachment in
PMMail, making it a pain to read), and the lack of IMAP support.  The
latter was an ongoing annoyance, as I've long wanted to set up IMAP on
the local network for my email, but as long as PMMail was my primary
mail client, it wasn't an option.  The lack of keeping up with current
MIME structures was what put it over.

I'm now running Thunderbird, have all of the messages that were stored
in PMMail folders moved over to the (Linux) mail server, which runs IMAP
(including IMAPS (IMAP over an SSL tunnel) for access from outside my
LAN), and can check my email from either of the workstations at home
(one Windoze, one Linux).  I also carry a copy of Thunderbird on a USB
memory stick, so if I need to check my email while at a client's I can
grab just about any modern Internet-connected Windows workstation, do
some quick configuration, and  I'm able to get at my mail.  Or I could
use the mail client in Opera.  Or, if I'm really desparate, Outlook or
Outlook Express.

I've figured out enough of Procmail to get it to handle filtering mail
into various folders I use, so that's now handled on the server rather
than on the mail client (making filtering features on the client moot).
~ I'm also running SpamAssassin to deal with what spam makes it past
SPEWS, SORBS, RFC-Ignorant, and my own local blocklists.

I've even gotten encryption/digital signatures working, using GPG and
Enigmail.  I'm not sure there's any feature of PMMail that I've been
using that I haven't been able to find a replacement for.

I've lost track of how long I've used PMMail, but I started out with the
OS/2 version, long before it was available in Windoze.  I stuck with it
when I was forced to drop OS/2 and move the main workstation to Windoze.
~ But at this point, BSW just hasn't kept with modern features enough to
keep me from moving on.

Ben
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Ben Coleman oloryn@benshome.net      | The attempt to legislatively
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