[pmmail-list] Leaving PMMail for Thunderbird

[Massimo @ eCS . it]

John Swartzentruber wrote:
> 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.  Plus, it is 
>> available in source form, so I can fix the things that drive me nuts!
> 
> 
> I'm in the process of switching over. One of my complaints (in addition 
> to performance) is that it looks like the accounts are ordered according 
> to the order they are created. Has anyone figured out a way to re-order 
> the accounts? I've got a hunch I could do it by editing the prefs.js 
> file, but that looks like a bad idea and wouldn't be trivial. It seems 
> there has to be a better way, but I can't find it.
> 
> I've got all of my messages converted, but I still need to work on the 
> address book. The Python script you (Tim) posted crashes for some reason 
> after only a handful or so of  entries.

i bounced hundreds of thousands of emails from pmmail back to thunderbird, i also manually 
edited the address book imported into thunderbird..


Massimo S.
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